ChemInform Abstract: Manganese Dioxide Can Oxidize Unactivated Alcohols under in situ Oxidation—Wittig Conditions.

✍ Scribed by Leonie Blackburn; Xudong Wei; Richard J. K. Taylor

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 33 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.199940046

✦ Synopsis

Manganese Dioxide Can Oxidize Unactivated Alcohols under in situ Oxidation-Wittig Conditions.

-In the absence of Wittig reagent activated MnO 2 oxidizes primary alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes. However, low yields are observed (decanal 12%). -(BLACKBURN, LEONIE;