title: Wacker-type oxidation and dehydrogenation of terminal olefins using molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant without adding ligand.
abstract: An efficient and economical palladium-catalyzed oxidation system has been identified. The oxidation system, characterized by not adding ligand and using molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant, can realize the Tsuji-Wacker oxidation of terminal olefins and especially styrenes to methyl ketones; in addition, this system can achieve tandem Wacker oxidation-dehydrogenation of terminal olefins to α,β-unsaturated ketones.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry & Materials Science, Northwest University , Xi'an 710069, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yu-Fei
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ya-Ru
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Shuai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Yan-Lei
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Dong-Dong
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Zhao-Lei
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Shi-Huan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Yong-Qiang
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Wang