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Inside Cover Picture: (Adv. Synth. Catal. 5/2014)
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced synthesis and catalysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.541
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1615-4169
pISSN - 1615-4150
DOI - 10.1002/adsc.201400151
Subject(s) - chemistry , boronic acid , diol , suzuki reaction , electrochemistry , organic chemistry , oxidation process , combinatorial chemistry , catalysis , chemical engineering , palladium , electrode , engineering
The inside cover picture , provided by Julius M. William, Masami Kuriyama, and Osamu Onomura, illustrates how boronic acids, widely used in the Suzuki cross‐coupling, have been utilized to activate 1,2‐diols in water leading to selective oxidation. Dibromoisocyanuric acid (DBI), a water‐stable oxidant has been used for chemical oxidation. Additionally, a clean electrochemical oxidation process has been achieved in water using KBr as a mediator. Selective oxidation was not achieved in the absence of boronic acids. Both methods are tolerant to various 1,2‐diol substrates affording good to excellent yields of the corresponding α‐hydroxy ketones, as reported in the communication on pages 934–940 (J. M. William, M. Kuriyama, O. Onomura, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 934–940; DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201300961 ).