Clay-supported tetrabutylammonium periodate as a versatile oxidant for alcohols and sulfides

✍ Scribed by C. Venkatachalapathy; M. Rajarajan; H. Shayira Banu; K. Pitchumani

• Book ID: 104209282
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 318 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4020
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4020(99)00101-5

✦ Synopsis

Clay-supported tetrabutylammonium periodate is found to oxidise efficiently benzylic alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes without overoxidation to acids. It also oxidises aryl sulfides selectively to the corresponding sulfoxides.