Rapid microwave-promoted solvent-free oxidation of α-methylene ketones to α-diketones

✍ Scribed by Jong Chan Lee; Hong-Jun Park; Jin Young Park

• Book ID: 104251535
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 56 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)01130-9

✦ Synopsis

A convenient and rapid method for the oxidation of a-methylene ketones to a-diketones has been described involving the reaction of pyridine N-oxide with a-nosyloxy ketone intermediates.