Organic letters

Oxidative Ring Cleavage of Cyclic Acetals with Hypervalent tert-Butylperoxy-λ3-iodanes

T Sueda, S Fukuda, M Ochiai

Index: Sueda, Takuya; Fukuda, Sonoko; Ochiai, Masahito Organic Letters, 2001 , vol. 3, # 15 p. 2387 - 2390

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Abstract

Exposure of cyclic acetals to 1-tert-butylperoxy-1, 2-benziodoxol-3 (1 H)-one in the presence of tert-butyl hydroperoxide and potassium carbonate in benzene at room temperature results in oxidative ring cleavage to glycol monoesters via intermediate tert-butylperoxy ortho esters.