Ruthenium-catalysed cleavage of alkenes and alkynes to carboxylic acids
Synthetic Communications, Volume 30, No. 17, Year 2000
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Catalysis of alkene and alkyne cleavage to carboxylic acids by ruthenium trichloride in the presence of an excess of periodic acid has been studied in biphasic H2O - CCl4-CH3CN media, and is found to be simple and effective. The active catalyst is shown to be RuO4.