Oxidative aromatic ring cleavage of 3,5-di-t-butylcatechol, with total insertion of molecular oxygen, catalysed by 2,2′-bipyridine–iron(II) complex
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 17,p. 754-755
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39790000754
Abstract
The oxidative aromatic ring cleavage of 3,5-di-t-butylcatechol (1) by molecular oxygen to give the lactone (2) is catalysed by a non-enzymatic iron(II) complex co-ordinated by 2,2′-bipyridine and pyridine.Keywords
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