Supported Sulfonic Acid as Green and Efficient Catalyst for Baeyer–Villiger Oxidation with 30% Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide

✍ Scribed by Calogero G. Piscopo; Stefan Loebbecke; Raimondo Maggi; Giovanni Sartori

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 167 KB
• Volume: 352
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1615-4150
• DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201000076

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Silica‐supported propylsulfonic acid is a very good heterogeneous catalyst for the Baeyer–Villiger oxidation of cyclic ketones to lactones with stoichiometric 30% aqueous hydrogen peroxide in 1,1,1,3,3,3‐hexafluoro‐2‐propanol as solvent.