Activation of Oxidations with Oxygen on Platinum Metals Using the Example of the Conversion of 2??Phenoxyethanols to Phenoxyacetic Acids

H Fiege, K Wedemeyer

Index: Fiege, Helmut; Wedemeyer, Karlfried Angewandte Chemie, 1981 , vol. 93, # 9 p. 812 - 813

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Abstract

Phenoxyacetic acids are valuable organic intermediates and of considerable economic importance as growth-regulating herbicides"'. They are mainly prepared industrially by heating the corresponding phenols with monochloroacetic acid in aqueous sodium