Abstract
A mild and user-friendly one-pot oxidative cleavage of vicinal diols to their corresponding (di)carboxylic acids using AZADOs and PhI(OAc)2 is described. 1,2-Diols and 2,3-diols as well as 1,2,3-triol gave one- or two-carbon-unit-shorter carboxylic acids. Internal vicinal diols also smoothly underwent one-pot oxidative cleavage to afford the corresponding dicarboxylic acids. Cyclic vicinal diols are converted to their corresponding open-form dicarboxylic acids.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 5010-5013 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Organic Letters |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 Oct 5 |