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Wacker-Tsuji Oxidation

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Wacker-Tsuji Oxidation

The Wacker Oxidation is an industrial process, which allows the synthesis of ethanal from ethene by palladium-catalyzed oxidation with oxygen. Copper serves as redox cocatalyst.

The lab scale modification - the Wacker-Tsuji Oxidation - is useful for the synthesis of various ketones. Mechanism of the Wacker-Tsuji Oxidation The mechanism is typical of palladium olefin chemistry, and water serves as the oxygen source; the reduced palladium is reoxidized by Cu(II) and ultimately by atmospheric oxygen.

J. Tsuji, "Palladium Reagents and Catalysts" , First Edition 2004 , Wiley, 29-35.

Recent Literature

Discovery of a Practical Direct O2-Coupled Wacker Oxidation with Pd[(-)-sparteine]Cl2 C. N. Cornell, M. S. Sigman, Org. Lett., 2006 , 8 , 4117-4120.

Convenient and Efficient Pd-Catalyzed Regioselective Oxyfunctionalization of Terminal Olefins by Using Molecular Oxygen as

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Wacker-Tsuji Oxidation

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Sole Reoxidant T. Mitsudome, T. Umetani, N. Nosaka, K. Mori, T. Mizugaki, K. Ebitani, K. Kaneda, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006 , 45 , 481-485.

Multifunctional Palladium Catalysis. 2. Tandem Haloallylation Followed by Wacker-Tsuji Oxidation or Sonogashira CrossCoupling A. N. Thadani, V. H. Rawal, Org. Lett., 2002 , 4 , 4321-4323.

A General and Efficient Catalyst System for a Wacker-Type Oxidation Using TBHP as the Terminal Oxidant: Application to Classically Challenging Substrates B. W. Michel, A. M. Camelio, C. N. Cornell, M. S. Sigman, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009 , 131 , 6076-6077.

Multicatalytic Processes Using Diverse Transition Metals for the Synthesis of Alkenes H. Lebel, V. Paquet, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004 , 126 , 11152-11153.

Wacker-Type Oxidation of Alkynes into 1,2-Diketones Using Molecular Oxygen W. Ren, Y. Xia, S.-J. Ji, Y. Zhang, X. Wan, J. Zhao, Org. Lett., 2009 , 11 , 1841-1844.

A Facile Synthesis of 2-Methylquinolines via Pd-Catalyzed Aza-Wacker Oxidative Cyclization Z. Zhang, J. Tang, Z. Wang, Org. Lett., 2008 , 10 , 173-175.

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