title: Aerobic photooxidation of phosphite esters using diorganotelluride catalysts.
abstract: Diorganotellurides containing bulky aromatic substituents are found to catalyze the photooxidation of phosphite esters using aerobic oxygen as a terminal oxidant. A Hammett plot with substituted triaryl phosphites yielding rho = 2.88 agrees with a nucleophilic oxygen transfer from telluroxide to phosphite.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Chemistry, Tokai University, 317 Nishino, Numazu, Shizuoka 410-0395, Japan.
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oba
authors.forename: Yasunori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Kozaburo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishiyama
authors.forename: Wataru
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ando