Organoselenium-Catalyzed Selectivity-Switchable Oxidation of β-Ionone.

Lei Yu,* Zengbing Bai, Xu Zhang, Xiaohong Zhang, Yuanhua Ding and Qing Xu

Jiangsu Co-Innovation Centre for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

E-mail: yulei@yzu.edu.cn

Abstract:Catalyzed by organoselenium compounds, β-ionone was easily oxidized by H₂O₂ under mild and clean conditions. We were very surprised to find that the reaction selectivity was switchable by the catalyst. To the best of our knowledge, this should be the first example for selectivity regulation using organoselenium catalysts in the field, indicating the great potential of organoselenium catalysis in synthetic organic chemistry in the future.

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2016,6, 1804-1809

文章链接: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/cy/c5cy01395j#!divAbstract

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