Visible light mediated oxidation of benzylic sp3 C–H bonds using catalytic 1,4hydroquinone, or its biorenewable glucoside, arbutin, as a pre-oxidant
Benzylic ethers undergo a visible light induced C–H activation and oxygen insertion to give the corresponding benzoate esters in moderate to good yields. The conditions employ substoichiometric amounts of 1,4-hydroquinone with copper(II) chloride dihydrate as an electron-transfer mediator, oxygen as...
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Royal Society of Chemistry
2018
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51625/ |