Not sure where I found this, Unfortunately I can not give credit to the person that posted this, I think I would remember if I found this on my own, regardless here is a related article, I apologize in advance if this has already been posted at Synthetika.
Oxidation of alcohols with peracetic acid in ethyl acetate in the presence of Sodium Bromide Takashi Morimoto, Masao Hirano, Takayoshi Hamaguchi, Masahide Shimoyama, and Xiumin Zhuang Bull. Chem Sc. Jpn, 65, 703-706 (1992) Scanned .pdf
Abstract:
Aliphatic primary alcohols and 1,x-diols were oxidized to the dimeric esters and lactones, respectively, by peracetic acid and ethyl acetate in the presence of sodium bromide under mild conditions. Aliphatic secondary and benzylic alcohols were converted smoothly to the corresponding carbonyl compounds by the same system.
re: Alcohols to carbonyls w/ peracetic, ethyl acetate, NaBr
Mon May 09, 2005 1:34 pm
Didn't have time to look at this article, but I suppose this is a variation on Br2/H2O2 theme. Always wondered why anyone would pursue this route when you can (almost) always use acidic aq NaOCl/Ca(OCl)2 with excellent results (known not only from theory, hehe).
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