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  • Novel Scorpionate and Pyrazole Dioxovanadium Complexes, Catalysts for Carboxylation and Peroxidative Oxidation of Alkanes
    Publication . Silva, Telma F. S.; Luzyanin, Konstantin V.; Kirillova, Marina V.; Guedes Da Silva, M. Fátima C.; Martins, Luisa; Pombeiro, Armando
    The dioxovanadium(V) complexes [VO2(3,5-Me(2)Hpz)(3)][BF4] (1) (pz = pyrazolyl), [VO2{SO3C(pz)(3)}] (2), [VO2{HB(3,5-Me(2)pz)(3)}] (3) and [VO2{HC(pz)(3)}][BF4] (4), bearing pyrazole or scorpionate ligands, were obtained by reaction of triethyl vanadate [VO(OEt)(3)] with hydrotris(3,5-dimethyl-1-pyrazolyl)methane [HC(3,5-Me(2)pz)(3)] or 3,5-dimethylpyrazole (3,5-Me(2)Hpz; 1), lithium tris(1-pyrazolyl)methanesulfonate {Li[SO3C(pz)(3)], 2}, potassium hydrotris(3,5-dimethyl-1-pyrazolyl)borate {K[HB(3,5-Me(2)pz)(3)], 3} and hydrotris(1-pyrazolyl)methane [HC(pz)(3), 4], respectively. Treatment of [VO(OEt)(3)] with potassium hydrotris(1-pyrazolyl)borate {K[HB(pz)(3)]} led to the mixed eta(3)-tris(pyrazolyl)borate and eta(2)-bis(pyrazolyl)borate oxovanadium(IV) complex [VO{HB(pz)(3)}{H2B(pz)(2)}, 5]. The compounds were characterized by elemental analyses, IR, NMR and EPR spectroscopy, FAB and ESI mass spectrometry, cyclic voltammetry and, for 5, also by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. All complexes exhibit catalytic activity in the single-pot carboxylation [in trifluoroacetic acid/potassium peroxodisulfate (CF3COOH/K2S2O8)] of gaseous alkanes (methane and ethane) to carboxylic acids (yields up to 40%. TONs up to 157) and in the peroxidative oxidation [in water/acetonitrile (H2O/NCMe)] of liquid alkanes (cyclohexane and cyclopentane) to the corresponding alcohols and ketones (yields up to 24%, TONs up to 117), under mild conditions.
  • Tetranuclear copper(II) complexes with macrocyclic and open-chain disiloxane ligands as catalyst precursors for hydrocarboxylation and oxidation of alkanes and 1-phenylethanol
    Publication . Zaltariov, Mirela-Fernanda; Alexandru, Mihaela; Cazacu, Maria; Shova, Sergiu; NOVITCHI, Ghenadie; Train, Cyrille; Dobrov, Anatolie; Kirillova, Marina V.; Alegria, Elisabete; Pombeiro, Armando; Arion, Vladimir B.
    Two new tetranuclear complexes [Cu-4(mu-O)(L-1)-Cl-4] and [Cu-4(mu(4)-O)(L-2)(2)Cl-4] (2), where H2L1 is a macrocyclic ligand resulting from [2+2] condensation of 2,6-diformy1-4-methylphanol (DFF) and 1,3-bis(aminopropy1)tetramethyldisiloxane, and HL2 is a 1:2 condensation product: of DFF with trimethylsilyl p-aminobenzoate, have been prepared. The structures of the products were established by Xray diffraction. The complexes have been characterised by FTIR, UV/Vis spectroscopy, ES1 mass-spectrometry and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The latter revealed that the letrftriuclear complexes can be descr bed as two ferromagnetically coupled dinuclear units, in which the two copper(II) ions interact antiferromacinetically. The ccimpi.iunds act as homogeneous catalyst precursors for a number of single-pot reactions, including (I) hydrocarbaxylation, with CO, H2O and K2S2O8, of a variety of linear and cyclic (n = 5-8) alkanes into the corresponding Cn+1 carboxylic acids, (ii) peroxidative oxidation of cyclohexane, and (iii) solvent-free microwave-assisted oxidation of 1-phenyletha.nol.
  • Pyrazole and trispyrazolylmethane rhenium complexes as catalysts for ethane and cyclohexane oxidations
    Publication . Alegria, Elisabete; Kirillova, Marina V.; Martins, Luisa; Pombeiro, Armando
    The pyrazole complexes [ReCl2{N2C(O)Ph}(Hpz)(PPh3)2] 2 (Hpz = pyrazole), [ReCl2{N2C(O)Ph}(Hpz)2(PPh3)] 3 and [ReClF{N2C(O)Ph}(Hpz)2(PPh3)] 4, and the tris(pyrazolyl)methane compounds [ReCl2(HCpz3)(PPh3)][BF4] 5 (pz = pyrazolyl), [ReCl3{HC(pz)3}] 7, [ReOCl2{SO3C(pz)3}(PPh3)] 8 and [ReO3{SO3C(pz)3}] 9, and their precursors [ReCl2{η2-N,O-N2C(O)Ph}(PPh3)2] 1 and [ReOCl3(PPh3)2] 6, act as selective catalysts (or catalyst precursors), in a single-pot process, for the oxidation of ethane, in the presence of potassium peroxodisulfate K2S2O8, in trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), to give acetic acid, in a remarkable yield (up to ca. 40%) and under mild conditions (in some cases carboxylation can also occur to give propionic acid, but in a much lower yield). The catalytic peroxidative oxidation of ethane to acetaldehyde and of cyclohexane to cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol by an aqueous solution of H2O2 at room temperature is also achieved by using most of those catalyst precursors. The effects of a variety of factors were studied towards the optimization of the processes which are shown to proceed via both C-centered and O-centered radical mechanisms.
  • A Hexanuclear Mixed-Valence Oxovanadium(IV,V) Complex as a Highly Efficient Alkane Oxidation Catalyst
    Publication . Sutradhar, Manas; Kirillova, Marina V.; Guedes Da Silva, M. Fátima C.; Martins, Luisa; Pombeiro, Armando
    The new hexanuclear mixed-valence vanadium complex [V3O3(OEt)(ashz)(2)(mu-OEt)](2) (1) with an N,O-donor ligand is reported. It acts as a highly efficient catalyst toward alkane oxidations by aqueous H2O2. Remarkably, high turnover numbers up to 25000 with product yields of up to 27% (based on alkane) stand for one of the most active systems for such reactions.
  • Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of Keotones catalysed by rhenium complexes bearing N- Or Oxo-Ligands
    Publication . Alegria, Elisabete; Martins, Luisa; Kirillova, Marina V.; Pombeiro, Armando
    Rhenium (I, III-V or VII) complexes bearing N-donor or oxo-ligands catalyse the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclic and linear ketones (e.g. 2-methylcyclohexanone, 2-methylcyclopentanone, cyclohexanone, cyclopentanone, cyclobutanone and 3,3-dimethyl-2-butanone) into the corresponding lactones or esters, in the presence of aqueous H2O2 (30%). The effects of various reaction parameters are studied allowing to achieve yields up to 54%.