Metal ions and complexes in organic reactions. Part XIII. Oxidative effects of silver(II) complexes of pyridinecarboxylic acids

Aldehydes or ketones were produced by reaction of silver(II) picolinate (pyridine-2-carboxylate) in aqueous suspension with some arylalkanes and arylalkanols; the response of substrates differed in certain respects from that reported when the oxidant was silver(II) oxide in phosphoric acid. The silver(II) complexes of pyridine-2-carboxylic, -3-carboxylic, -4-carboxylic, and -2,3-dicarboxylic acids exhibited only minor differences in efficiency when compared as oxidants for primary and secondary amines and other organic substrates.