Pixu Li*(李丕旭)
Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science, Soochow University, 199 RenAi Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 1954–1957
A mild and high-yielding visible-light-promoted conversion of alkyl benzyl ethers to the alkyl esters or alkyl alcohols was developed. Mechanistic studies provided evidence for a radical chain reaction involving the homolytic cleavage of O-α-sp3 C–H bonds in the substrate as one of the propagation steps. We propose that α-bromoethers are key intermediates in the transformation.
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//pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00663
