Delépine aldehyde oxidation

The Delépine aldehyde oxidation, named after the French chemist Marcel Delépine , is a name reaction from the field of organic chemistry and was first described in 1909.

Delépine aldehyde oxidation describes the oxidation of an aldehyde to a carboxylic acid with silver (I) oxide catalysis:

Often the carboxylic acid is obtained in a yield of about 90%. Molecular oxygen (O ₂ ) or hydrogen peroxide (H ₂ O ₂ ) serve as the oxidizing agent .

further reading

• Debashis Chakraborty, Ravikumar R. Gowda, Payal Malik: Silver nitrate-catalyzed oxidation of aldehydes to carboxylic acids by H2O2. In: Tetrahedron Letters . 50, 2009, pp. 6553-6556, doi: 10.1016 / j.tetlet.2009.09.044 .
• Qingyong Tian, ​​Daxin Shi, Yaowu Sha: CuO and Ag2O / CuO Catalyzed Oxidation of Aldehydes to the Corresponding Carboxylic Acids by Molecular Oxygen In: Molecules . 13, 2008, pp. 948-957, doi: 10.3390 / molecules13040948 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Alfred Hassner and Irishi Namboothiri: Organic Syntheses Based on Name Reaction , Elsevier, 2012, ISBN 978-0-08-096630-4 , p. 121.