Photoinduced Carbon Tetrabromide Initiated Aerobic Oxidation of Substituted Toluenes to Carboxylic Acids

Abstract

A mild and metal-free procedure is reported for the aerobic oxidation of substituted toluenes to carboxylic acids by using CBr₄ as initiator under irradiation from a 400 nm blue light-emitting diode.

Key words

metal-free synthesis - photooxidation - toluenes - benzoic acids

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