Selective Oxidation of Zinc Organometallics to Hydroperoxides Using Oxygen in Perfluorohexanes

1 November 1995

journal article
letter
Published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Synlett

Vol. 1995 (11) , 1113-1114
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-1995-5195

Abstract

Functionalized organozincs obtained by a boron-zinc exchange reaction can be oxidized to hydroperoxides with high selectivity using oxygen in perfluorohexanes at -78 °C.

Keywords

HYDROPEROXIDES
PERFLUOROALKANES
ORGANOZINCS