Conclusions
The action of catalytic amounts of copper ions in the presence of MX salts (M=K and Na, X=Cl, Br, I, SCN) leads to the decomposition of the hydroperoxides of C5-C7 cycloalkanones with the formation of ω-chloro-,ω-bromo-, ω-iodo-, and ω-thiocyanoalkanoic acids.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2628–2630, November, 1984.
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Nikishin, G.I., Aleksandrov, A.V., Ignatenko, A.V. et al. Synthesis of ω-haloalkanoic acids by the catalytic decomposition of cycloalkane hydroperoxides by copper ions. Russ Chem Bull 33, 2407–2409 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00948868
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