Volume 21, Issue 9 pp. 1206-1209
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Salen-Mn(III)-complex-catalyzed oxidations of secondary alcohols

Wei Sun

Wei Sun

State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis & Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China

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Chun-Gu Xia

Chun-Gu Xia

State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis & Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China

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First published: 26 August 2010
Citations: 6

Abstract

Secondary alcohols were catalytically oxidized with diacetoxyiodobenzene as oxidant in the presence of salen-Mn(III) complex to afford the corresponding ketones, in up to 99% yield, using CH2Cl2 or water as reaction media.

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