Carboxylic acids with iodosobenzene

Whereas internal acetylenes are oxidized to a-diketones, terminal acetylenes give carboxylic acids with one less carbon on treatment with thallium trinitrate [413], potassium permanganate [843], iodosobenzene with tris(triphenylphosphine)ruthenium dichloride as a catalyst [787], or a rather rare oxidant, pentafluoroiodobenzene bis(trifluoroacetate) [797] (equation 144). 

Photolysis of alkyl carboxylic acids with lead (IV) acetates can generate alkyl radicals by decarboxylation and this has been used to place an aryl group on a cubane. Thus photolysis of a benzene solution of the cubane dicarboxylic acid (136) containing lead tetraacetate yields the phenyl cubane (137). A mechanistically related procedure uses iodosobenzene diacetate for the photochemical arylation of cyclohexane carboxylic acid with heteroaromatics such as pyridine or quinoline. 

Iodosobenzene diacetate [IBD, PhI(OAc)2] is able to oxidize benzylic alcohols to benzaldehydes when a solid mixture of iodosobenzene diacetate and the alcohol is irradiated with microwaves. Best results are obtained when iodosobenzene diacetate is supported on alumina.118 The use of polymer supported iodosobenzene diacetate (PSDIB) simplifies the work-up in the oxidation of benzylic alcohols to benzaldehydes.119 PSDIB can be employed in the presence of KBr and using water as solvent, resulting in the transformation of secondary alcohols into ketones and primary alcohols into carboxylic acids.117... 

The unusual oxidant nickel peroxide converts aromatic aldehydes into carboxylic acids at 30-60 °C after 1.5-3 h in 58-100% yields [934. The oxidation of aldehydes to acids by pure ruthenium tetroxide results in very low yields [940. On the contrary, potassium ruthenate, prepared in situ from ruthenium trichloride and potassium persulfate in water and used in catalytic amounts, leads to a 99% yield of m-nitrobenzoic acid at room temperature after 2 h. Another oxidant, iodosobenzene in the presence of tris(triphenylphosphine)ruthenium dichloride, converts benzaldehyde into benzoic acid in 96% yield at room temperature [785]. The same reaction with a 91% yield is accomplished by treatment of benzaldehyde with osmium tetroxide as a catalyst and cumene hydroperoxide as a reoxidant [1163]. 

Use of other nucleophiles in the presence of an oxidant can install other functionality (Scheme 3.55). While N-halosuccinimides are very effective, other systems, such as iodosobenzene diacetate-halide mixtures, or copper(II) halide salts can be employed. The powerful oxidant oxone can also be used in combination with alcohols, to give ethers (Scheme 3.56). Iodine acetate has been used for C-H activation directed by carboxylic acids (Scheme 3.57). The heteroatom may also be supplied intramolecularly (Scheme 3.58). The use of palladium catalysis can also override the inherent regioselectivity of an arene substrate (Scheme 3.59). 

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