Primary alcohols methyltrioxorhenium

Oxidation of alcohols may be achieved also using the methyltrioxorhenium/H202 catalytic system Primary benzylic and secondary aliphatic alcohols afforded the... 

Methyltrioxorhenium (MTO) also catalyzes the oxidation of alcohols with H2O2 via a peroxometal pathway [137,138]. Primary benzyhc and secondary aliphatic alcohols afforded the corresponding aldehydes and ketones, respectively, albeit using two equivalents of H2O2. In the presence of bromide ion the rate was increased by a factor 1000 [137]. In this case the active oxidant could be hypobromite (HOBr), formed by MTO-catalyzed oxidation of bromide ion by H2O2. 

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