Argentic oxide oxidations of organic compounds

✍ Scribed by T.G. Clarke; N.A. Hampson; J.B. Lee; J.R. Morley; B. Scanlon

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 193 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)70751-9

✦ Synopsis

In a recent note we surveyed the use of silver II picolinste as an oxidising agent (1).

These observations were made in connection with some work both in the carbohydrate field and with a study of organic reactions at solid metal electrodes (2). At the surface of the solid silver electrode under the appropriate conditions, and in the absence of complexing agents such as picolinic acid, argentic oxide (Ago), is produced. 'Ihis oxide, although stoichiometrically AgO, appears to be largely identical with that produced by chemical methods, and is a lattice compound of alternate Ag (III) and Ag (I) atoms (3). Its behaviour might consequently be expected to differ from that of the silver (II) state. We therefore surveyed the oxidising activity of the oxide.

After the appearance of our paper, Syper reported some observations (4)* on the use of AgO under acidic conditions.