Abstract
Retinoic acid underwent autoxidation in 90% ethanol at 25-85.5 °C to give epoxides, dioxetanes, an endoperoxide, and double-bond cleavage products. The majority of these products appear to have resulted from the initial direct oxidation of the olefinic carbons rather than from the expected allylic α oxidation process.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7679-7694 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Tetrahedron |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 24 |
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| State | Published - 1989 |