NHC/Iron cooperative catalysis: aerobic oxidative esterification of aldehydes with phenols

RS Reddy, JN Rosa, LF Veiros, S Caddick…

Index: Reddy, R. Sudarshan; Rosa, Joao N.; Veiros, Luis F.; Caddick, Stephen; Gois, Pedro M. P. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2011 , vol. 9, # 9 p. 3126 - 3129

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Abstract

In recent years, the oxidative esterification of aldehydes with alcohols using NHC catalysts has been reported, opening a new area of application of these versatile organocatalysts. 3 In earlier work, the oxidation of the intermediate generated from the addition of the NHC to the aldehyde functionality has been achieved by coupling it with a reduction occurring elsewhere in the molecule. Examples include, saturation of the conjugated double bond in an α,β- ...