Explorative application of selenium catalysts in the oxidation of benzyl alcohol.

¹ Université Sultan Moulay Slimane, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, BP 523, 23000 Béni-Mellal (Morocco)
² Group of Catalysis Synthesis and Organic Green Chemistry (CS-ORG CHEM) - Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences - University of Perugia

Published: 30 October 2015 by MDPI in The 19th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry session General Organic Synthesis

https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsoc-19-a009

Abstract:

Oxidation mediated by hydrogen peroxide needs to be accelerate by approrpiate catalyst in order to be completed in a reasonable reaction time. As a part of our investigation in the use of organoselenium cataysts in bio-mimetic oxidative protocol we reported here some preliminary results on the oxidation of benzyl alcohol into the corresponding benzoic acid.

Keywords: alcohol; oxidation; selenium; catalysis; carboxylic acids; hydrogen peroxide; green chemistry

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