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Transition-metal-free aerobic oxidative cleavage of C-C bonds in α-hydroxy ketones and mechanistic insight to the reaction pathway.

Liu H, Dong C, Zhang Z, Wu P, Jiang X.

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2012 Dec 7;51(50):12570-4.

Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Process, Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai 200062, PR China.

Abstract

Clear cut: For the title reaction, O(2), the ideal oxidant, was used as the only oxidizing reagent. The dimer intermediate (see scheme) and isotopic labeling control experiments with (18)O(2) partially disclosed the reaction mechanism.

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