#methyl esters

Visible-light induced oxidative Csp3-H activation of methyl aromatics to methyl esters

Green Chem., 2016, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C6GC01880G, Communication Lingling Zhang, Hong Yi, Jue Wang, Aiwen Lei A mild and catalytic oxidative Csp3-H activation of methyl aromatics using O2viaphotocatalysis has been achieved. A lot of methyl aromatics can be tolerated, providing a route for aromatic methyl carboxylates. In addition, this protocol can be performed on a gram scale…