title: Cu-catalyzed aerobic oxidative esterification of acetophenones with alcohols to α-ketoesters.
abstract: Copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidative esterification of acetophenones with alcohols using molecular oxygen has been developed to form a broad range of α-ketoesters in good yields. In addition to reporting scope and limitations of our new method, mechanism studies are reported that reveal that the carbonyl oxygen in the ester mainly originated from dioxygen.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Next Generation Matter Transformation, College of Chemical Engineering, and ‡College of Materials Science & Engineering, at Huaqiao University , 668 Jimei Boulevard, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xuezhao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Yuanguang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Qiuling
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Song