Sarett oxidation

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The Sarett oxidation is the oxidation of an alcohol to a ketone or an aldehyde using chromic oxide and pyridine. Primary alcohols will be oxidised to aldehydes and not carboxylic acids.

The reagent is named after the American chemist Lewis Hastings Sarett (1917– 1999).

[edit] See also

• Collins reagent
• Pyridinium chlorochromate
• Jones oxidation

[edit] References

1. G. I. Poos, G. E. Arth, R. E. Beyler, and L. H. Sarett (1953). "Approaches to the Total Synthesis of Adrenal Steroids.1 V. 4b-Methyl-7- ethylenedioxy-1,2,3,4,4aα,4b,5,6,7,8,10,10a β-dodecahydrophenanthrene-4 β-ol-1-one and Related Tricyclic Derivatives". Journal of the American Chemical Society 75 (2): 422 - 429. doi:10.1021/ja01098a049. 
2. J. R. Holum, J. Org. Chem. 26, 4814 (1961)
3. E. J. Kris, Chemistry & Industry (London) 1961 1834)
4. V. I. Stenberg, and R. J. Perkins, J. Org. Chems. 28, 323 (1963)
5. P. G. Gassman and P. G. Pape, J. Org. Chem. 29, 160 (1964).

[edit] External links

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