I was reading a prep on Organic syntheses about a wacker-type of oxidation and the easiness and the yields just seem great
Basically, using 32 grams of CuCl2 and 1.19 grams of PdCl2, the author claims a 78% yield on 1.66 moles of alkene.
The starting compound is 2,2 dimethyl-4-pentenal and the end product the corresponding methylketone.
http://www.orgsyn.org/orgsyn/prep.asp?rxntypeid=192&prep=CV8P0208 (http://www.orgsyn.org/orgsyn/prep.asp?rxntypeid=192&prep=CV8P0208)
As anyone ever tried something similar? Imagine the yields being the same for our favorite alkene...