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Aerobic oxidation of NHC-catalysed aldehyde esterifications with alcohols: benzoin, not the Breslow intermediate, undergoes oxidation
Eoghan G. Delany, Claire-Louise Fagan, Sivaji Gundala, Kirsten Zeitler and Stephen J. Connon Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 6513-6515
DOI:
10.1039/C3CC42597E,
Communication
Benzoin (and neither the Breslow intermediate nor the NHC–aldehyde tetrahedral adduct) has been unambiguously identified as the oxidised species in aerobic NHC-catalysed aldehyde esterifications.