Chemoselective aerobic oxidation of primary alcohols catalyzed by a ruthenium complex

✍ Scribed by Atsushi Miyata; Masakazu Murakami; Ryo Irie; Tsutomu Katsuki

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 66 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)01447-2

✦ Synopsis

In the presence of secondary alcohols, primary alcohols are selectively oxidized to aldehydes under aerobic conditions by using a (nitrosyl)Ru(salen) complex as catalyst.