Methyltrioxorhenium-catalyzed aerobic oxidative coupling of 2-naphthols to binaphthols

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

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 87 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(03)00352-6

✦ Synopsis

A variety of 2-naphthols have been selectively oxidized to their corresponding 1,1%-bi-2-naphthols in excellent yields with molecular oxygen using methyltrioxorhenium as catalyst.