A Simple and Effective Method for α-Hydroxylation of β-Dicarbonyl Compounds Using Oxone as an Oxidant without a Catalyst

✍ Scribed by Jun Yu; Jian Cui; Chi Zhang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 436 KB
• Volume: 2010
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-193X
• DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201000940

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Oxone has been found to be a highly efficient reagent for the introduction of a hydroxy group at the α position of a variety of β‐dicarbonyl compounds in the homogeneous solvent mixture of water and 1,4‐dioxane at 60 °C.