Oxygen → 1,3-Adamantanediol

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A mixture of 10 mmol of adamantane, 0.8 mmol of 6-trifluoromethyl-1-hydroxybenzotriazole, 0.06 mmol of acetylacetonatocobalt(III), and 25 ml of acetic acid was stirred at 90° C. in an oxygen atmosphere (1 atm) for 8 hours. A gas chromatographic analysis of products in a reaction mixture found that 1-adamantanol and 1,3-adamantanediol were formed in yields of 38% and 4%, respectively, with a conversion rate from adamantane of 48%.

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