Selective oxidation of alcohols using ferrocene-labeled Merrifield resin-supported ionic liquid phase catalysts Rajanikant Kurane 1 • Prakash Bansode 1 • Sharanabasappa Khanapure 1 • Rajashri Salunkhe 1 • Gajanan Rashinkar 1 Received: 30 January 2016 / Accepted: 26 April 2016 / Published online: 17 May 2016 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 Abstract A novel ferrocene-labeled Merrifield resin-supported ionic liquid phase cat- alysts has been synthesized and successfully utilized for the selective oxidation of pri- mary alcohols into corresponding aldehydes. The catalysts were recovered by simple filtration which greatly simplified the purification step and allowed successive reuse for multiple times without significant loss in activity. Graphical Abstract & Gajanan Rashinkar gsr_chem@unishivaji.ac.in 1 Department of Chemistry, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, M.S. 416004, India 123 Res Chem Intermed (2016) 42:7807–7821 DOI 10.1007/s11164-016-2563-2