A convenient procedure for the direct conversion of terminal alkenes into carboxylic acids

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)91853-7

Alkylboronic acids, readily synthesized from a variety of representative terminal alkenes via hydroboration with dibromoborane-methyl sulfide, undergo a facile oxidation with chromium trioxide in 90% aqueous acetic acid to provide carboxylic acids in 80-97% isolated yields, without rearrangement or loss of carbon.