Tetrahedron letters

Copper-ammonia mediated oxidation of carbonyl compounds

PK Arora, LM Sayre

Index: Arora, Pramod K.; Sayre, Lawrence M. Tetrahedron Letters, 1991 , vol. 32, # 8 p. 1007 - 1010

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Abstract

Abstract Copper (II) in aqueous NH 4 OH, in most cases in conjunction with O 2 or K 2 S 2 O 8 as auxiliary oxidant, induces oxidative cleavage of ketones to nitriles when there is a good carbon electrofuge; for unactivated ketones, the main reaction observed is oxidative coupling of ketimines to give azines.