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SUBMITTER: Courtois C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7687105 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20190828 40
According to textbooks, tertiary alcohols are inert towards oxidation. The photocatalysis of tertiary alcohols under highly defined vacuum conditions on a titania single crystal reveals unexpected and new reactions, which can be described as disproportionation into an alkane and the respective ketone. In contrast to primary and secondary alcohols, in tertiary alcohols the absence of an α-H leads to a C-C-bond cleavage instead of the common abstraction of hydrogen. Surprisingly, bonds to methyl g ...[more]