Tetrahedron letters

Oxidation of α-methylbenzyl alcohols by dimethyldioxirane

F Kovač, AL Baumstark

Index: Kovac, F.; Baumstark, A. L. Tetrahedron Letters, 1994 , vol. 35, # 47 p. 8751 - 8754

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Abstract

Abstract Dimethyldioxirane converts p-substituted α-methylbenzyl alcohols to the corresponding acetophenones in excellent yield with α-hydroxyacetophenones as the minor products; the oxidation shows a ϱ of− 1.57, PKIE of 3.55, KIE of 1.09 for OD and activation parameters with a large, negative ΔS‡ term.