Alkane oxidation by polynuclear non-haem iron complexes—an imidazole effect
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 14,p. 939-940
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39910000939
Abstract
Binuclear and trinuclear non-haem iron complexes efficiently transfer oxidizing equivalents from tert-butyl hydroperoxide to cyclohexane; imidazole in excess greatly increases the yield of the reaction and the ketone : alcohol ratio.Keywords
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