Oxidation of alkanes by dioxygen catalysed by photoactivated iron porphyrins
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 20,p. 1487-1489
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39910001487
Abstract
Cycloalkanes were oxidized by O2 itself under mild conditions (22 °C; 200 Torr of O2) in the presence of catalytic amounts of a polyhalogenated porphyrin–iron(III)—hydroxo complex irradiated with light of wavelength between 350 and 450 nm; these oxidations occurred without consumption of a reducing agent, selectively transformed cyclohexane into cyclohexanone under appropriate conditions (about 0. 2 turnover per min), and did not involve FeV O active species but, more probably, iron-alkylperoxo intermediates.Keywords
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