Tetrahedron Letters

Aerobic oxidation of aldehydes by visible light photocatalysis

N Iqbal, S Choi, Y You, EJ Cho

Index: Iqbal, Naeem; Choi, Sungkyu; You, Youngmin; Cho, Eun Jin Tetrahedron Letters, 2013 , vol. 54, # 46 p. 6222 - 6225

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Abstract

Abstract An efficient and environmentally benign method for the oxidation of aldehydes to carboxylic acids has been developed. Singlet oxygen, generated by visible light in the presence of a Ru or Ir photocatalyst, reacted with aldehydes to give the corresponding carboxylic acids in excellent yields. The reaction is highly chemo-selective, in which only an aldehyde moiety is reactive even in the presence of other photo-oxidation active sites. ...