Development of a general and practical iron nitrate/TEMPO-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes/ketones: Catalysis with table salt

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 353, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1005-1017

  Ma, Shengming ^a,b   Liu, Jinxian ^a   Li, Suhua ^b   Chen, Bo ^b   Cheng, Jiajia ^b   Kuang, Jinqiang ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Wan, Baoqiang ^b   Wang, Yuli ^a   Ye, Juntao ^b   Yu, Qiong ^a   Yuan, Weiming ^a   Yu, Shichao ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

aerobic oxidation; alcohols; catalysis; iron nitrate; TEMPO

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955426923     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201100033     Document Type: Article

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