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Copper-ammonia mediated oxidation of carbonyl compounds
Arora, Pramod K.,Sayre, Lawrence M.
, p. 1007 - 1010 (1991)
Copper(II) in aqueous NH4OH, in most cases in conjunction with O2 or K2S2O8 as auxiliary oxidant, induces oxidative cleavage of ketones to nitriles when there is a good carbon electrofuge; for unactivated ketones, the main reaction observed is oxidative coupling of ketimines to give azines. If R′ = poor electrofuge, oxidative coupling to RR′ C=N-N=CRR′ can occur.