[Jetsam]

Hello. Can you look at my mechanic reaction of isopulegon from citronellol?
I dont know how to write a proton transfer and i dont know the rest is correct

[rolnor]

There seems to be a lot of pages on the web that describes the synthesis.


https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mechanism-of-Citronellal-Cyclization-Tursiloadi-et-al-2015_fig5_353602161

[galonch1]

I'm having a hard time understanding this alcohol oxidation. I know that adding PCC to the primary alcohol will produce an aldehyde, but I'm not sure how it becomes cyclic. I originally thought that it was the OCOCH3-, but the formation of isopulegone from PCC alone has me confused.