C alcohol oxidation

Hughes and Makada [47] have studied the radiation-induced oxidation of 2-propanol in acid and alkaline aqueous solutions at 20° C. Alcohol oxidation in acid solution at [RH] > 0.1 mole l"1 proceeds by a chain mechanism... 

Glycerol -dichlorohydrin, 2.3-dichloro-propanol, CH2CI CHC1 CH2 0H. Colourless liquid, b.p. 182 C. Prepared by the chlorination of propenyl alcohol. Oxidized by nitric acid to 1,2-dichloropropionic acid. Reacts with NaOH to give epichlorohydrin. 

C) Carboxylic adds For aryl-substituted alcohols, such as benzyl alcohol, oxidation readily gives the corresponding add (c/. p. 336). 

Oxidation of LLDPE starts at temperatures above 150°C. This reaction produces hydroxyl and carboxyl groups in polymer molecules as well as low molecular weight compounds such as water, aldehydes, ketones, and alcohols. Oxidation reactions can occur during LLDPE pelletization and processing to protect molten resins from oxygen attack during these operations, antioxidants (radical inhibitors) must be used. These antioxidants (qv) are added to LLDPE resins in concentrations of 0.1—0.5 wt %, and maybe naphthyl amines or phenylenediamines, substituted phenols, quinones, and alkyl phosphites (4), although inhibitors based on hindered phenols are preferred. 

Ethyl chloride can be dehydrochlorinated to ethylene using alcohoHc potash. Condensation of alcohol with ethyl chloride in this reaction also produces some diethyl ether. Heating to 625°C and subsequent contact with calcium oxide and water at 400—450°C gives ethyl alcohol as the chief product of decomposition. Ethyl chloride yields butane, ethylene, water, and a soHd of unknown composition when heated with metallic magnesium for about six hours in a sealed tube. Ethyl chloride forms regular crystals of a hydrate with water at 0°C (5). Dry ethyl chloride can be used in contact with most common metals in the absence of air up to 200°C. Its oxidation and hydrolysis are slow at ordinary temperatures. Ethyl chloride yields ethyl alcohol, acetaldehyde, and some ethylene in the presence of steam with various catalysts, eg, titanium dioxide and barium chloride. 

The next key step, the second dihydroxylation, was deferred until the lactone 82 had been formed from compound 80 (Scheme 20). This tactic would alleviate some of the steric hindrance around the C3-C4 double bond, and would create a cyclic molecule which was predicted to have a greater diastereofacial bias. The lactone can be made by first protecting the diol 80 as the acetonide 81 (88 % yield), followed by oxidative cleavage of the two PMB groups with DDQ (86% yield).43 Dihydroxylation of 82 with the standard Upjohn conditions17 furnishes, not unexpectedly, a quantitative yield of the triol 84 as a single diastereoisomer. The triol 84 is presumably fashioned from the initially formed triol 83 by a spontaneous translactonization (see Scheme 20), an event which proved to be a substantial piece of luck, as it simultaneously freed the C-8 hydroxyl from the lactone and protected the C-3 hydroxyl in the alcohol oxidation state. 

With ring G in place, the construction of key intermediate 105 requires only a few functional group manipulations. To this end, benzylation of the free secondary hydroxyl group in 136, followed sequentially by hydroboration/oxidation and benzylation reactions, affords compound 137 in 75% overall yield. Acid-induced solvolysis of the benzylidene acetal in 137 in methanol furnishes a diol (138) the hydroxy groups of which can be easily differentiated. Although the action of 2.5 equivalents of tert-butyldimethylsilyl chloride on compound 138 produces a bis(silyl ether), it was found that the primary TBS ether can be cleaved selectively on treatment with a catalytic amount of CSA in MeOH at 0 °C. Finally, oxidation of the resulting primary alcohol using the Swem procedure furnishes key intermediate 105 (81 % yield from 138). 

Since the transition state for alcohol oxidation and ketone reduction must be identical, the product distribution (under kinetic control) for reducing 2-butanone and 2-pentanone is also predictable. Thus, one would expect to isolate (R)-2-butanol if the temperature of the reaction was above 26 °C. On the contrary, if the temperature is less than 26 °C, (S)-2-butanol should result in fact, the reduction of... 

Although the fate of Cr(IV) is uncertain, (cf. the alcohol oxidation), some characteristics of the intermediate chromium species have been obtained by Wiberg and Richardson from a study of competitions between benzaldehyde and each of several substituted benzaldehydes. The competition between the two aldehydes for Cr(VI) is measured simply by their separate reactivities that for the Cr(V) or Cr(IV) is obtained from estimation of residual aldehyde by a C-labelling technique. If Cr(V) is involved then p values for oxidation by Cr(VI) and Cr(V) are 0.77 and 0.45, respectively. An isotope effect of 4.1 for oxidation of benzaldehyde by Cr(V) was obtained likewise. 

Acetoin consumes 4 equivalents of V(V) to produce some biacetyl via C-H fission however, this cleavage is not accompanied by a hydronium-ion concentration dependence of the rate thereby differing from a secondary alcohol oxidation. The mechanism of breakdown of the complex is depicted as follows... 

Hydroboration-oxidation of 1,4-di-f-butylcyclohexene gave three alcohols 9-A (77%), 9-B (20%), and 9-C (3%). Oxidation of 9-A gave a ketone 9-D that was readily converted by either acid or base to an isomeric ketone 9-E. Ketone 9-E was the only oxidation product of alcohols 9-B and 9-C. What are the structures of compounds 9A-9E ... 

Bianchini, C. and Shen, P.K. (2009) Palladium-based electrocatalysts for alcohol oxidation in half cells and in direct alcohol fuel cells. Chemical Reviews,... 

SEGPHOS [271, 272]. Using this complex as a precatalyst, transfer hydrogenation of 1,1-dimethylallene in the presence of diverse aldehydes mediated by isopropanol delivers products of ferf-prenylation in good to excellent yield and with excellent levels of enantioselectivity. In the absence of isopropanol, enantio-selective carbonyl reverse prenylation is achieved directly from the alcohol oxidation level to furnish an equivalent set of adducts. Notably, enantioselective ferf-prenylation is achieved under mild conditions (30-50°C) in the absence of stoichiometric metallic reagents. Indeed, for reactions conducted from the alcohol oxidation level, stoichiometric byproducts are completely absent (Scheme 13). 

Scheme 14 Proposed catalytic mechanism for carbonyl tert-prenylation from the alcohol oxidation level via iridium-catalyzed C-C bond-forming transfer hydrogenation...

More recently, using the cyclometallated iridium C,(7-benzoate derived from allyl acetate, 4-methoxy-3-nitrobenzoic acid and BIPHEP, catalytic carbonyl crotylation employing 1,3-butadiene from the aldehyde, or alcohol oxidation was achieved under transfer hydrogenation conditions [274]. Carbonyl addition occurs with roughly equal facility from the alcohol or aldehyde oxidation level. However, products are obtained as diastereomeric mixtures. Stereoselective variants of these processes are under development. It should be noted that under the conditions of ruthenium-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation, conjugated dienes, including butadiene, couple to alcohols or aldehydes to provide either products of carbonyl crotylation or p,y-enones (Scheme 16) [275, 276]. 

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