Productive utilization of chlorobenzene: palladium-catalyzed selective oxidation of alcohols.
[reaction: see text] The palladium/ligand-catalyzed activation of chlorobenzene provides a general, efficient, and functional group friendly method for the selective oxidation of alcohols to carbonyl compounds.
Guram
Anil S
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Symyx Technologies, Inc., 3100 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95051, USA. aguram@symyx.com
Bei
Xiaohong
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Turner
Howard W
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