Sunlight oxidation of alkyl aryl tellurides to the corresponding carbonyl compounds: a new carbonyl precursor.
Alkyl aryl tellurides were efficiently transformed to the corresponding carbonyl compounds by photo-oxidation with sunlight without affecting various functional groups in the alkyl moiety. The tellurides can be used as a new carbonyl precursor, and the photolysis can be conducted without special equipment for light sources.
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan. ouchi.akihiko@aist.go.jp
Akihiko
A
Ouchi
Takeshi
T
Hyugano
Chuanxiang
C
Liu