Abstract
The pseudocyclic iodine(V) oxidants, such as esters of iodoxybenzoic acid (IBX-esters) and 2-iodylphenol ethers, can serve as stable and efficient sources of oxygen in catalytic oxidations, and their reactivity is similar to the commonly used thermally unstable and potentially explosive iodosylbenzene. In a specific example, primary or secondary benzylic alcohols are selectively oxidized by isopropyl IBX-ester in the presence of μ-oxo-(tetra-tert-butylphthalocyaninato)iron(III) (0.1 mol equiv) in dichloromethane at room temperature in 0.5-2 h to afford the respective carbonyl compounds in 100% conversion and preparative yields 91-95% after column chromatography.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7410-7412 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Tetrahedron Letters |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 52 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 22 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by a research Grant from the National Science Foundation (Grant CHE-0702734) and Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society (Grant PRF-45510-GB-3).