Chemistry Letters

Oxidative cleavage of olefins into carboxylic acids with hydrogen peroxide by tungstic acid.

T Oguchi, T Ura, Y Ishii, M Ogawa

Index: Oguchi, Takahito; Ura, Toshikazu; Ishii, Yasutaka; Ogawa, Masaya Chemistry Letters, 1989 , p. 857 - 860

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Citation Number: 64

Abstract

A facile conversion of olefins into carboxylic acids could be achieved by using aqueous hydrogen peroxide (35%-H 2 O 2) in the presence of catalytic amounts of tungstic acid (5 wt%). The oxidation was markedly influenced by the acidity of the reaction medium, and it was found to proceed favorably under a weak acidic condition (pH 4–5).