Gf. Lai et Wk. Anderson, A SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE FOR THE EFFICIENT CONVERSION OF AROMATIC-ALDEHYDES INTO ESTERS, Synthetic communications, 27(7), 1997, pp. 1281-1283
A mild, efficient conversion of aromatic aldehydes into their correspo
nding methyl (or ethyl) esters was achieved by treatment with manganes
e dioxide and sodium cyanide in methanol (or ethanol) but without the
use of acetic acid.