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Characterizationf of autoxidation products of retinoic acid

…, KL Facchine, PF Hamburg, DJ Burinsky, R Dunphy…

Index: Oyler; Motto; Naldi; Facchine; Hamburg; Burinsky; Dunphy; Cotter Tetrahedron, 1989 , vol. 45, # 24 p. 7679 - 7694

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Abstract

Retinoic acid underwent autoxidation in 90% ethanol at 25–85.5° C to give epoxides, dioxetanes, an endoperoxide, and double-bond cleavage products. The majority of these products appear to have resulted from the initial direct oxidation of the olefinic carbons rather than from the expected allylic α oxidation process.