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Chemistry

Oxidation

2005

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Fast Oxidation Of Lactams To Cyclic Imides Using Microwave Irradiation, Avat Arman Taherpour, Hamid Reza Mansuri Jan 2005

Fast Oxidation Of Lactams To Cyclic Imides Using Microwave Irradiation, Avat Arman Taherpour, Hamid Reza Mansuri

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

Since polar reactants can adsorb microwave irradiation, chemists can utilize the microwave oven for some organic reactions. In this paper, we report a rapid conversion of lactams to cyclic imides using peracetic acid (CH_3-CO_3H) and manganic chloride (MnCl_2) in ethyl acetate (CH_3-COOEt) as a solvent and under microwave irradiation (90 W, 5 min) in good yields.