Efficient CuCl-catalyzed selective and direct oxidation of β- And γ-substituted aliphatic primary alcohols to carboxylic acids

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 2822-2829

  Mannam, Sreedevi ^a   Sekar, Govindasamy ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Aliphatic primary alcohols; carboxylic acids; copper catalyst; direct oxidation; selective oxidation; tertiary butyl hydroperoxide

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; COPPER CHLORIDE; CYCLOHEXANE;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORM MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77956196528     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910903318690     Document Type: Article

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