The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Selective oxidation of aldehydes to carboxylic acids with sodium chlorite-hydrogen peroxide

E Dalcanale, F Montanari

Index: Dalcanale, Enrico; Montanari, Fernando Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1986 , vol. 51, # 4 p. 567 - 569

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Citation Number: 451

Abstract

Several methods for the oxidation of aldehydes to the corresponding carboxylic acids are known. lV2 However, no one seems to be completely satisfactory, the major drawbacks being high costs, low selectivities, and complex operating conditions. Their application to large-scale preparations is therefore difficult. We thus addressed our attention to the use of the inexpensive sodium chlorite? which reacts with aldehydes under very mild conditions ...