Riley Oxidations (Selenium Dioxide Oxidation)

H. L. Riley et al., J. Chem. Soc. 1932, 1875.

Oxidations of organic compounds with selenium dioxide; e.g., the oxidation of active methylene groups to carbonyl groups:

N. Rabjohn, Org. React. 5, 331 (1949); Oxidation, E. N. Trachtenberg, R. L. Augustine, Eds. (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1969) pp 119-187; H. O. House, Modern Synthetic Reactions (W. A. Benjamin, Menlo Park, California, 2nd ed., 1972) pp 407-411.