Oxidation of aromatic aldehydes in the ionic liquid [bmim]PF6

✍ Scribed by Joshua Howarth

• Book ID: 104210657
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 79 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)01037-6

✦ Synopsis

Several aromatic aldehydes have been oxidised using the catalyst [Ni(acac) 2 ] and dioxygen at atmospheric pressure, as the oxidant, in the ionic liquid [bmim]PF 6 . The catalyst and ionic liquid could be recycled after extraction of the carboxylic acid product.