Cerium-photocatalyzed aerobic oxidation of benzylic alcohols to aldehydes and ketones

Girish Suresh Yedase; Sumit Kumar; Jessica Stahl; Burkhard König; Veera Reddy Yatham

doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.121

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (Jul 2021)

Cerium-photocatalyzed aerobic oxidation of benzylic alcohols to aldehydes and ketones

Girish Suresh Yedase,
Sumit Kumar,
Jessica Stahl,
Burkhard König,
Veera Reddy Yatham

Affiliations

Girish Suresh Yedase: School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM) 695551, India
Sumit Kumar: School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM) 695551, India
Jessica Stahl: Institut für Organische Chemie, Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätstraße 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
Burkhard König: Institut für Organische Chemie, Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie, Universität Regensburg, Universitätstraße 31, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany
Veera Reddy Yatham: School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM) 695551, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.17.121
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 17, no. 1
pp. 1727 – 1732

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We have developed a cerium-photocatalyzed aerobic oxidation of primary and secondary benzylic alcohols to aldehydes and ketones using inexpensive CeCl3·7H2O as photocatalyst and air oxygen as the terminal oxidant.

Published in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

ISSN: 1860-5397 (Online)
Publisher: Beilstein-Institut
Country of publisher: Germany
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry: Organic chemistry
Website: http://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc

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