Tetrahedron letters

A convenient procedure for the direct conversion of terminal alkenes into carboxylic acids

US Racherla, VV Khanna, HC Brown

Index: Racherla; Khanna; Brown Tetrahedron Letters, 1992 , vol. 33, # 8 p. 1037 - 1040

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Abstract

Abstract Alkylboronic acids, readily synthesized from a variety of representative terminal alkenes via hydroboration with dibromoborane-methyl sulfide, undergo a facile oxidation with chromium trioxide in 90% aqueous acetic acid to provide carboxylic acids in 80–97%