Cobalt phthalocyanine catalyzed aerobic oxidation of secondary alcohols: an efficient and simple synthesis of ketones

✍ Scribed by Vishal B Sharma; Suman L Jain; Bir Sain

• Book ID: 104252574
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 163 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)02453-x

✦ Synopsis

A variety of activated and non-activated secondary alcohols have been efficiently oxidized to their corresponding ketones in excellent yields with molecular oxygen using cobalt phthalocyanine as catalyst in the presence of powdered potassium hydroxide.