Tetrahedron letters

In situ oxidative diol cleavage–Wittig processes

HS Outram, SA Raw, RJK Taylor

Index: Outram, Helen S.; Raw, Steven A.; Taylor, Richard J.K. Tetrahedron Letters, 2002 , vol. 43, # 35 p. 6185 - 6187

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Abstract

1, 2-Diol cleavage followed by in situ trapping of the resulting aldehyde with a stabilised phosphorane is described; both manganese dioxide and silica-supported sodium periodate can be used as the heterogeneous oxidant, but the latter reagent is generally the most efficient.