Acid-Catalyzed Oxidation of Olefins with Selenium Dioxide

KA Javaid, N Sonoda, S Tsutsumi

Index: Javaid,K.A. et al. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1970 , vol. 43, p. 3475 - 3479

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Abstract

A drastic deviation from the usually accepted reaction path was observed when oxidation of olefins was carried out in acetic acid with selenium dioxide in the presence of concentrated sulfuric acid. Oxidation of cyclohexene gave a mixture of cis-and trans-1, 2- diacetoxycyclohexane. It was shown that in the oxidation of cyclohexene the organoselenium intermediate which produced 3-acetoxy-1-cyclohexene on pyrolysis, is ...