A selective and efficient method for alcohol oxidations mediated by N-oxoammonium salts in combination with sodium bromite

T Inokuchi, S Matsumoto, T Nishiyama…

Index: Inokuchi, Tsutomo; Matsumoto, Sigeaki; Nishiyama, Tokio; Torii, Sigeru Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1990 , vol. 55, # 2 p. 462 - 466

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Abstract

The oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols leading to aldehydes, carboxylic acids, and ketones has been carried out in a N-oxoammonium salts-NaBr02 system. Sodium bromite as a stoichiometric oxidizing reagent activates N-oxy1 compounds (recycling catalysts) to their N-oxoammonium salts in a weakly basic medium, which oxidize primary hydroxyl groups preferentially rather than secondary ones to the corresponding aldehydes ...