Nac. Auton. Mez., 21, 226 (1969). W. Autervieth and G. Thomae, Chem. Ber., 57, 436 (1924). version of allylic alcohols to conjugated acids. We have examined the behavior of silver (I1) oxide with a wide variety of functionally substituted compounds. With each of the amines, aniline, p-toluidine, N, N-dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine, 2, 6-dimethylaniline, pchloroaniline, and a-naphthylamine, the principal product after the disappearance of the starting material ...