Ruthenium-catalysed cleavage of alkenes and alkynes to carboxylic acids

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397910008086915

Catalysis of alkene and alkyne cleavage to carboxylic acids by ruthenium trichloride in the presence of an excess of periodic acid has been studied in biphasic H₂O - CCl₄-CH₃CN media, and is found to be simple and effective. The active catalyst is shown to be RuO₄.

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Ruthenium-Catalysed Cleavage
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William P. Griffith a , Abdel G. Shoair a & Maria
Suriaatmaja a
a Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of
Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW7 2AY,
UK
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To cite this article: William P. Griffith, Abdel G. Shoair & Maria Suriaatmaja (2000):
Ruthenium-Catalysed Cleavage of Alkenes and Alkynes to Carboxylic Acids, Synthetic
Communications: An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic
Organic Chemistry, 30:17, 3091-3095
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