Sarett

Snatzke has found that a solution prepared from chromium trioxide and dimethylformamide with a small amount of sulfuric acid has similar chemical properties as the Sarett reagent. It is useful with acid sensitive compounds and oxidation occurs at such a moderate rate that selective oxidations are often possible. Although the position allylic to a A -double bond is not attacked, the 3-hydroxy-A -system cannot be oxidized satisfactorily to the cor-... 

In Sarett s total synthesis of cortisone, mild acid conditions were developed for the hydration of an ethoxyacetylenic carbinol to the ester without complete dehydration of the tertiary hydroxyl group. An acid-sensitive ketal group in another part of the molecule was also maintained. 

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