Green, Catalytic Oxidation of Alcohols in Water
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- 3 March 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 287 (5458) , 1636-1639
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.287.5458.1636
Abstract
Alcohol oxidations are typically performed with stoichiometric reagents that generate heavy-metal waste and are usually run in chlorinated solvents. A water-soluble palladium(II) bathophenanthroline complex is a stable recyclable catalyst for the selective aerobic oxidation of a wide range of alcohols to aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids in a biphasic water-alcohol system. The use of water as a solvent and air as the oxidant makes the reaction interesting from both an economic and environmental point of view.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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