Tm. Meulemans et al., CATALYTIC-OXIDATION OF HOMOALLYLALCOHOLS TO ALPHA-ALKOXYTETRAHYDROFURANS BY A PD-NITRO COMPLEX AND MOLECULAR-OXYGEN, Tetrahedron letters, 35(3), 1994, pp. 455-458
Various homoallylalcohols were highly regioselective oxidized with mol
ecular oxygen at the terminal carbon to afford cyclic acetals (alpha-a
lkoxytetrahydrofurans) using PdNO2Cl(CH3CN)(2) as a catalyst in the pr
esence of CuCl2 and t-butanol or isopropanol.