The Journal of Organic Chemistry

A versatile transformation of vic-diols into. alpha.-hydroxy ketones with hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by peroxotungstophosphates

Y Sakata, Y Ishii

Index: Sakata, Yasuyuki; Ishii, Yasutaka Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1991 , vol. 56, # 21 p. 6233 - 6235

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Abstract

a-Hydroxy ketones (a-ketols), which are versatile starting materials in organic synthesis, are classically syntheaized by the acyloin condensation of esters,'but this methd suffers from a serious limitation in the preparation of cyclic and unsymmetrical aliphatic a-ketols. In order to overcome this limitation, a number of synthetic methods have been developed for the preparation of cyclic a-ketols (eg, oxidation of silyl enol ethers with m-CPBA, 2 treatment of ...