One-Pot Preparation of Alcohols from Aromatic Olefins and Acrylic Acid Derivatives by Cobalt(II) Porphyrin-Catalyzed Reductive Oxygenation Followed by Reduction with Trimethyl Phosphite

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1993.925

Various aromatic olefins and acrylic acid derivatives were converted to benzyl alkohols and α-hydroxyalkanoic acid derivatives in good yields by the reductive oxygenation with oxygen and triethylsilane in the presence of catalytic amount of cobalt(II) porphyrin followed by treating the reaction mixture with trimethyl phosphite.