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Chem Commun (Camb)
; 51(75): 14175-8, 2015 Sep 28.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26091061
RESUMO
Aldehyde hydrates are important but highly unstable, transient intermediates in biological and synthetic oxidations to carboxylic acids. We here report N-oxides as the first class of chemical reagents capable of stabilizing such water adducts. This stabilizing effect (studied in solution and in the solid state) seems to be based on the formation of hydrogen bonds.