Oxidative ring contraction of cycloalkanones: A facile metrod for synthesis of medium ring cycloalkanecarboxylic acids

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397919908086230

Cycloalkanones (1) oxidized with 30% hydrogen peroxide in the presence of poly(bisanthracenyl) diselenide (5b) as catalyst, produce cycloalkanecarboxylic acids (2) having one carbon atom less in the ring that the substrate. Although preparative yield of acids 2 does not exceed 60% the reaction can be applied as a simple way for synthesis of cycloalkanecarboxylic acids with five to seven-membered ring.

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Oxidative Ring Contraction of
Cycloalkanones: A Facile Method
for Synthesis of Medium Ring
Cycloalkanecarboxylic Acids
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MirosłAw Giurg & Jacek Młochowski
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Institute of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and
Biotechnology, Wroclaw University of Technology, 50 370,
Wroclaw, Poland
Published online: 17 Sep 2007.
To cite this article: MirosłAw Giurg & Jacek Młochowski (1999): Oxidative Ring Contraction
of Cycloalkanones: A Facile Method for Synthesis of Medium Ring Cycloalkanecarboxylic Acids,
Synthetic Communications: An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic
Organic Chemistry, 29:13, 2281-2291
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