FUNCTIONALISATION OF SATURATED HYDROCARBONS. PART XVII. REACTIVITY OF CARBON-CARBON DOUBLE BONDS.

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)90511-3

The Gif oxidation systems cleave methylidene olefins into the ketone or aldehyde and formaldehyde.This is considered to be a further manifestation of an Fe oxenoid species.Similarly, more substituted olefins are oxidized to the corresponding unsaturated ketones or aldehydes.The oxidation of limonene afforded the ketone 24 resulting from methylene cleavage and racemic carvone 25.The latter is considered to originate from a symmetrical ?-allyl complex of iron.