Tetrahedron letters

Selective Wacker-type oxidation of terminal alkenes and dienes using the Pd (II)/molybdovanadophosphate (NPMoV)/O 2 system

T Yokota, A Sakakura, M Tani, S Sakaguchi, Y Ishii

Index: Yokota, Takahiro; Sakakura, Aki; Tani, Masayuki; Sakaguchi, Satoshi; Ishii, Yasutaka Tetrahedron Letters, 2002 , vol. 43, # 49 p. 8887 - 8891

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 36

Abstract

Selective Wacker-type oxidation of long-chain terminal alkenes to methylketones was successfully achieved by using Pd (OAc) 2/molybdovanadophosphate (NPMoV)/O2 system. The selectivity of the reaction increased by slow addition of the alkenes to the catalytic solution. The oxidation of α, ω-dienes was also examined, and the selectivity of the oxidation was found to depend on the chain length of the dienes used.