Sonochemical Barbier Reaction and Oxidation

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 Facile Synthesis of Aldehyde and Ketone via Sonochemical Barbier Reaction and Oxidation
 
Lee, Adam Shih-Yuan ; Kung, Chih-Chun
 
 
Abstract.     Methyl ketone is prepared by a sonochemical Barbier reaction of methyl iodide, magnesium powder and aldehyde in Benzene/THF (9/1) solvent in a commercial ultrasonic cleaning bath (39kHz), followed by the addition of N- chlorosuccinimide (NCS) as an oxidizing agent