ChemInform Abstract: Zirconium Alkoxide Catalyzed Oppenauer Oxidation Using Chloral as the Hydride Acceptor.

✍ Scribed by K. KROHN; B. KNAUER; J. KUEPKE; D. SEEBACH; A. K. BECK; M. HAYAKAWA

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 32 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.199715058

✦ Synopsis

Zirconium Alkoxide Catalyzed Oppenauer Oxidation Using Chloral as the Hydride Acceptor. -Treatment of a variety of primary or secondary alcohols (17 examples) with anhydrous chloral in the presence of catalytic Zr(O-tBu)4 results in an effective synthesis of the corresponding aldehydes or ketones, thus providing a new variation of the Oppenauer oxidation. -(KROHN, K.;