CSJ acting as a versatile highly efficient greener resource for organic transformations

Abstract

Simple, new, greener and efficient alternatives to the existing protocols have been developed for the reduction of aromatic aldehydes to their corresponding alcohols, decarboxylation of substituted benzoic acids (C₆–C₁) and substituted cinnamic acids (C₆–C₃) with a hydroxyl group at the para position with respect to the acid group to corresponding phenolic compounds and vinyl phenols respectively by using a natural feedstock, cucumber juice (CSJ), which acts as a greener solvent system, performing a substrate-selective reaction. Additionally, the hydrolysis of the acetyl as well as the benzoyl group of aromatic compounds has been carried out to afford excellent yield by CSJ.