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The Oxidation Of Secondary Alcohols By Dipotassium Tetraoxoferrate (Vi) In Concentrated And Dilute Potassium Hydroxide Solutions, William C. Lewis Mar 1965

The Oxidation Of Secondary Alcohols By Dipotassium Tetraoxoferrate (Vi) In Concentrated And Dilute Potassium Hydroxide Solutions, William C. Lewis

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Potassium ferrate of known purity was used to oxidize three alcohols (propanol-2, 1,1,1-trifluoropropanol-2, and 1,1,1,3,3,3- hexafluoropropanol-2) in 8 ~ potassium hydroxide, and a series of substituted phenyltrifluoromethyl carbinols (m-nitrophenyl-, m-bromophenyl-, p-methylphenyl-, and unsubstituted) in 0.5 ~potassium hydroxide and 3.5 ~potassium fluoride. The reactions were found to obey pseudofirst order kinetics and shown to be first order in ferrate ion and first order in alkoxy i on (ionized carbinol or alcohol); acetone production I from the oxidation of propanol-2 al so followed first order kinetics; oxygen evolution was 3/2 order· in some reactive intermediate, other than iron-VI. Deuterium isotope effects show …