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Diisopropoxyaluminium trifluoroacetate/4-nitrobenzaldehyde—a new oppenauer oxidation system for accelerated oxidation of secondary alcohols to the …

KG Akamanchi, BA Chaudhari

Index: Akamanchi, Krishnacharya G.; Chaudhari, Bapu A. Tetrahedron Letters, 1997 , vol. 38, # 39 p. 6925 - 6928

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Abstract

A practical, efficient and accelerated oxidation of secondary alcohols to the corresponding ketones has been achieved at rt in high yields by a modified Oppenauer oxidation system using diisopropoxyaluminium trifluoroacetate as catalyst and 4-nitrobenzaldehyde as a hydride acceptor.