Nanomagnetic MgFe2O4 is an active, stable, and reusable catalyst for the oxidation of alcohols. The oxidation of various primary and secondary alcohols has been examined and related corresponding products were obtained in good yields. The reactions were carried out in the presence of water as solvent and oxone (at room temperature) or H2O2 (at 60 ºC) as an oxidant. The catalyst was investigated...

A highly regio- and stereoselective CuCl-mediated carbometallation reaction of 3-aryl-substituted secondary propargylic alcohols with alkyl, aryl, vinyl or allyl Grignard reagents for the synthesis of fully-substituted allylic alcohols was developed. The R(2) group from the Grignard reagent was successfully introduced to the 2-position of the propargylic alcohols due to the chelation of metal a...

Jing Wu et al. have synthesized enantiomerically pure secondary alcohols under mild reaction conditions. The stereospecific alcohols, formed by the hydrosilylation of prochiral ketones, are intermediates in the manufacturing of industrial compounds and pharmaceuticals. Previous methods for creating the alcohols have been hampered by the high cost of metal catalysts, low substrate-to-catalyst ra...

The stereocontrol of tertiary alcohols represents a recurrent challenge in organic synthesis. In the present paper, we describe simple, efficient, and indirect method to enantioselectively prepare through chiral isothiourea catalyzed selective acylation adjacent secondary alcohols. This transformation enables kinetic resolution (KR) easily prepared racemic diastereoenriched secondary/tertiary d...

Carbonylruthenium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin Ru(TPFPP)(CO) was utilized for the aerobic oxidation of alcohols. The in situ activation of the catalyst with mCPBA provided a species capable of catalyzing the oxidation of alcohols with molecular oxygen. The choice of solvent and additive was crucial to obtaining high activity and selectivity. Secondary aromatic alcohols were oxidized in ...

Methoxymethylation of a variety of alcohols was performed using formaldehyde dimethyl acetal in the presence of 1,3-dichloro-5,5-dimethyl hydantoin [DCDMH] and Poly N,N′-dibromo-N-ethyl naphthyl-2,7-disulfonamide [PBNS] as catalysts at room temperature and under solvent-free conditions. Our experiments show that primary and secondary alcohols can be smoothly converted into the corresponding MOM...

Secondary benzylic alcohols and diarylmethanols are common structural motifs of biologically active medicinally relevant compounds. Here we report their enantioselective synthesis by ?-arylation primary aliphatic under sequential catalysis integrating a Ru-catalyzed hydrogen transfer oxidation nucleophilic addition. The method can be applied to various aryl nucleophiles tolerating range functio...