Chemistry Letters

One-Pot Preparation of Alcohols from Aromatic Olefins and Acrylic Acid Derivatives by Cobalt (II) Porphyrin-Catalyzed Reductive Oxygenation Followed by Reduction …

Y Matsusita, K Sugamoto, T Matsui

Index: Matsusita, Yoh-ichi; Sugamoto, Kazuhiro; Matsui, Takanao Chemistry Letters, 1993 , # 6 p. 925 - 928

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Abstract

Various aromatic olefins and acrylic acid derivatives were converted to benzyl alcohols and α-hydroxyalkanoic acid derivatives in good yields by the reductive oxygenation with oxygen and triethylsilane in the presence of a catalytic amount of cobalt (II) porphyrin followed by treating the reaction mixture with trimethyl phosphite.