Binuclear IronACHTUNGTRENNUNG(III) Phthalocyanine(m-Oxodimer)-Catalyzed Oxygenation
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The addition of 0.10–0.15 mol equiv of Fe
ACHTUNGERTN(NUNG III)-phtha- the reaction temperature results in formation of 17 as
locyanines 3 and 4 leads to a significant increase in the major reaction product.
the reaction rate with a 100% conversion reached in
Finally, both catalysts 3 and 4 are not very effective
2–5 h for catalyst 3 and 2 h for catalyst 4 at room tem- in oxidation of the adamantane into 1-adamantanol
perature (entries 7–10). In the case of catalyst 3 and (entries 24–27) at 25 and 08C.
catalyst 4/oxidant 1 combination (entries 7–9) the
only reaction product observed in GC-MS was 9,10-
antraquinone, while in the case of catalyst 4/oxidant 2 Conclusions
combination, 15% of the 1-hydroxy-9,10-antraquinone
was observed in the reaction mixture, suggesting that In summary, the results of our study show that oligo-
catalyst 4 can further oxygenate a less reactive (as meric iodosylbenzene sulfate 2/complex 4 combina-
compared to anthracene) 9,10-anthraquinone. Lower- tion is an efficient oxygenating pair in the biomimetic
ing the reaction temperature leads to a slightly slower catalytic oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons. New
conversion rate of the reaction in the presence of asymmetric m-oxodimer 4 is a significantly more pow-
phthalocyanine 4 but expectedly results in a smaller erful catalyst as compared to the well-known m-oxo-
amount of overoxidized product 7 (entry 11). Since dimer 3 and can catalyze the oxidation of various aro-
catalysts 3 and 4 degrade during catalytic oxidation matic substrates.
reactions, and catalyst 4 has basic pyridine fragments
in its core, the oxidation of the anthracene into an-
thraquinone was tested in the absence of catalysts but Experimental Section
in the presence of pyridine (225 equiv.) or FeACTHNUTRGENUG(N III) salt
(100 equiv., entries 3–6). In both cases inhibition of General Methods
the oxidation reaction was clearly observed.
All reactions were performed under a dry nitrogen atmos-
In agreement with our previous reports, the data
presented in Table 1 clearly indicate that the oligo-
meric iodosylbenzene sulfate 2 is the best oxidant, sig-
nificantly more reactive than the commonly used io-
dosylbenzene and thus this oxidant was used for the
oxidation of the other aromatic compounds presented
in Table 1.
The oxidation of the more sterically crowded 2-tert-
butylanthracene 8 is indicative of the superiority of
catalyst 4 (entries 12 and 13). Indeed, with catalyst 3,
100% conversion of 8 into 2-tert-butyl-9,10-anthraqui-
none can be achieved after 20 h (isolated yield is
72%), while complete oxidation of 8 with catalyst 4
was completed after 30 min. Similar to the oxidation
of anthracene, small amounts of two additional over-
oxidation products 10 and 11 were observed in the re-
action mixture (entry 13).
phere with flame-dried glassware. All commercial reagents
were ACS reagent grade and used without further purifica-
tion. Toluene and dichloromethane were distilled from
CaH2 and stored over molecular sieves. Catalyst 3,[9] iodosyl-
benzene sulfate 2[8,10] and iodosylbenzene[2a] were prepared
by known methods. GC-MS analysis was carried out with an
HP 5890 A Gas Chromatograph using a 5970 Series mass se-
lective detector. The APCI-MS experiment was conducted
using a Finnegan LCQ LC-MS system. NMR spectra were
recorded on a Varian INOVA instrument with 500 MHz fre-
quency for protons. Chemical shifts are reported in parts per
million and referenced to TMS as an internal standard. UV-
vis spectra were collected on Jasco V-730 spectrophoto-
meres. MCD spectra were acquired on OLIS DCM-17
system with 1.4T DeSa permanent magnet.
Preparation of Catalyst 4
The preparation of catalyst 4 is shown in Scheme 1. The
asymmetrical metal-free phthalocyanine precursor was syn-
thesized according to the previously reported procedure.[11]
Selected data for this compound are: APCI-MS: m/z=684
[M+1]+ 100%; UV-vis (CHCl3): l=342, 605, 634, 659,
685 nm.
The reasonable oxidation of 2-methylnaphthalene
12 to provitamin K can also be achieved only with the
more active catalyst 4 (entries 14–17). Formation of
three quinone products 13–15 was observed at 25 and
08C. In the reaction at room temperature, the over-
oxidized quinone 15 is the major reaction product
The preparation of m-oxodimer from the asymmetrical
(entries 15 and 17), while lowering the reaction tem- metal-free precursor was achieved by the reaction between
0.54 g (0.79 mmol, 1 equiv.) of metal-free phthalocyanine
and 1.37 g (7.9 mmol, 10 equiv.) of iron(II) acetate in 5 mL
of boiling N,N-dimethyl ethanolamine for 8 h under an
argon atmosphere. After this period of time, the reaction
mixture was poured into water saturated with sodium chlo-
ride and the reaction product was filtered. The target com-
plex 4 was purified using basic alumina (Sorbent Technolo-
gies, Act. 1, 50–200 mm). First, toluene was used as the
eluent to remove reaction impurities and unreacted asym-
metrical metal-free phthalocyanine. After this, the target m-
perature to 08C leads to formation of the target qui-
none 13 as the major reaction product (entry 16).
Catalyst 3 is also not effective in the oxidation of
phenanthrene into 5,6-phenanthrenedione 17 at room
temperature (entries 18 and 19), while use of catalyst
4 leads to formation of the products 17–19, which
were isolated and characterized by NMR spectrosco-
py (entries 20–23). Expectedly, longer reaction times
for room temperature oxidations favor overoxidation
products 18 and 19 (entries 20, 21, 23), while lowering oxodimer 4 was eluted by pure methanol. The methanol was
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