Ruthenium-catalysed oxidation of alcohols by acetone
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 4,p. 337-339
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39920000337
Abstract
Secondary alcohols are readily converted to ketones under mild conditions by acetone in the presence of a catalytic amount of RuCl2(PPh3)3; in some cases the reaction is co-catalysed by acetophenone.Keywords
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