XIE Min1,2, MIAO Chengxia1, WANG Shoufeng1, SUN Wei1*
(1. State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Lanzhou 730000, China 2. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China)
Abstract: The oxidation of alcohols by N-bromosuccinimide with water as the reaction medium was developed. A series of alcohols including benzylic and aliphatic alcohols were converted into the corresponding ketones or aldehydes in high yields under catalyst-free conditions in water, except for some alcohols bearing donating substituents. However, the oxidation of less active alcohols could be carried out smoothly with Salen-Co(III) complex as a catalyst in a medium of water and CH2Cl2 mixture.
Key words: N-bromosuccinimide oxidation alcohols water salen-Co(III) complex
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Journal of Molecular Catalysis, Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2012, 99-104
