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Shape-selective oxidation of primary alcohols using perruthenate-containing zeolites
Daniel L Wu1, Andrea P Wight, Mark E Davis
1Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 22, 2003
Abstract:
Potassium perruthenate (KRuO4), a known, effective oxidant for the conversion of primary and secondary alcohols into carbonyl compounds is impregnated into zeolite X and shown to be a shape-selective oxidant using benzyl alcohol (reacted) and pyrenemethanol (not reacted).