Dess Martin Oxidation without Water Practice Problems

Practice Flashcards and Problems

Here you can test your knowledge on product guessing for the Dess Martin Oxidation without the usage of water.

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Concept Testing

Here you can test your knowledge on concept based questions!

Question 1

What kind of Alcohol cannot undergo Dess Martin Oxidation?

Question 2

Draw the Full Dess-Martin Periodinane structure.

Predict the Product

Here you can see if you can see if you correctly guess what the product is!

Question 1

Predict the Product.

Question 2

Guess the Product.

References

1. Dess, D. B.; Martin, J. C. Readily Accessible 12-I-51 Oxidant for the Conversion of Primary and Secondary Alcohols to Aldehydes and Ketones. J. Org. Chem. 1983, 48, 4155–4156. DOI: 10.1021/jo00356a052. ↩

2. Nickel, A.; Maruyama, T.; Tang, H.; Murphy, P. D.; Greene, B.; Yusuff, N.; Wood, J. L. Total synthesis of ingenol. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126 (50), 16300–16301. DOI: 10.1021/ja044123l. ↩

3. Lee, K.-Y.; Kim, Y.-H.; Oh, C.-Y.; Ham, W.-H. Facile and efficient total synthesis of (+)-preussin. Org. Lett. 2000, 2 (25), 4041–4042. DOI: 10.1021/ol000289p. ↩