Saegusa Oxidation

Y. Ito et al., J. Org. Chem. 43, 1011 (1978).

Conversion of silyl enol ethers into corresponding α,β-eneones using stoichiometric amounts of palladium acetate:

Application: M. Kim et al., Synth. Commun. 20, 989 (1990). Mechanism: S. Porth et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 38, 2015 (1999).