A practical decarboxylative hydroxylation of carboxylic acids

✍ Scribed by Derek H.R. Barton; Stéphane D. Géro; Pascale Holliday; Béatrice Quiclet-Sire; Samir Z. Zard

• Book ID: 104208614
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 301 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4020
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4020(98)00337-8

✦ Synopsis

Irradiation of esters of N-hydroxy-2-thiazolinethione under air or oxygen at room temperature in the presence of tert-dodecanethiol affords the corresponding nor-alcohols after a reductive work-up.