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To examine how Lewis acids accelerate permanganate-mediated alcohol oxidation and to characterize the reaction mechanisms computationally.

January 1, 2011Chemical Communications

Lewis acid-activated oxidation of alcohols by permanganate

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HDHongxia DuTianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine PLPo‐Kam LoCity University of Hong Kong ZHZongmin HuUniversity of Science and Technology of China

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Experimental and computational analysis reveals that Lewis acids accelerate permanganate alcohol oxidation by up to four orders of magnitude, suggesting new pathways for oxidative catalysis.

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To examine how Lewis acids accelerate permanganate-mediated alcohol oxidation and to characterize the reaction mechanisms computationally.
Measured reaction rates for alcohol oxidation by potassium permanganate in the presence of various Lewis acids, including calcium ions (Ca²⁺).
Modeled reaction pathways for the oxidation of methanol and 1-phenylethanol by MnO₄⁻ and BF₃·MnO₄⁻ using density functional theory (DFT) methods.
Lewis acid additives substantially accelerated the oxidation of alcohols by potassium permanganate across tested systems.
Inclusion of Ca²⁺ increased the oxidation rate by 4 orders of magnitude relative to the uncatalyzed reaction.

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Du et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a82a06ed88fdfcf4fa0c237 https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc12024g

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Experimental and computational analysis reveals that Lewis acids accelerate permanganate alcohol oxidation by up to four orders of magnitude, suggesting new pathways for oxidative catalysis.

Lewis acid-activated oxidation of alcohols by permanganate

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Lewis acid-activated oxidation of alcohols by permanganate

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