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Photochemical Oxidation of Alcohols by Dichromate

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IN a recent communication in Nature 1 a table is presented of the reactivities per —OH group of a series of alcohols towards hydrogen-atom abstraction by photo-excited quinones. These values are very close to the relative reactivities of the alcohols to photo-excited dichromate solutions, for which approximate figures are available (Table 1)2.

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  1. Wells, C. F., Nature, 177, 483 (1956).

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  2. Bowen, E. J., and Bunn, C. W., J. Chem. Soc., 2353 (1927). Bowen, E. J., and Yarnold, E. T., ibid., 1648 (1929).

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BOWEN, E. Photochemical Oxidation of Alcohols by Dichromate. Nature 177, 889–890 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177889b0

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