Tetrahedron

α-Oxidation of ketones using n-cation radicals

M Schulz, R Kluge, L Sivilai, B Kamm

Index: Schulz, Manfred; Kluge, Ralph; Sivilai, Li; Kamm, Birgit Tetrahedron, 1990 , vol. 46, # 7 p. 2371 - 2380

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Abstract

Six-membered ring ketones and acyclic ketones were oxidized by stable triarylamminium radical cations in moist acetonitrile at room temperature in the presence of a base to α- hydroxy ketones in good yield. Five-membered ring ketones gave the corresponding αβ- unsaturated compounds.

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