TY - JOUR TI - Catalytic selective oxidation of benzyl alcohols to aldehydes with rhenium complexes AU - P PARASKEVOPOULOU AU - N PSAROUDAKIS AU - S KOINIS AU - P STAVROPOULOS AU - K MERTIS JO - Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical PY - 2005 VL - null TODO - null SP - null PB - ELSEVIER BV SN - 1381-1169 TODO - 10.1016/j.molcata.2005.06.035 TODO - alcohols; selectivity; hypervalent iodine; oxidation; rhenium TODO - The system (”Bu(4)N)ReO(4) 5/PhIO/CH(2)Cl(2), T= 298 K catalyses effectively and with total selectivity the anaerobic oxidation of a range of primary substituted benzyl alcohols (o-, m-, p-X-C(6)H(4)-CH(2)OH, X = H, Me, MeO, Cl, NO(2), CF(3)) to the corresponding aldehydes; in contrast, it is unreactive towards secondary benzyl and aliphatic (primary and secondary) alcohols. This may prove of interest in synthetic organic transformations, when several alcoholic functionalities are present in the same molecule. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ER -