ORGANIC PREPARATIONS AND PROCEDURES INTERNATIONAL
EXPERIMENTAL PAPER
Selective Oxidation of Hydrocarbons and Alcohols Using
Phen-MCM-41 as an Efficient Co-Catalyst in Combination
with NHPI-Based Nano-Magnetic Catalyst
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Rahman Hosseinzadeh , Mohammad Mavvaji , Mahmood Tajbakhsh , Zahra
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Lasemi , and Nora Aghili
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Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran;
Department of Chemistry, Firoozkooh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh, Iran
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ARTICLE HISTORY Received 6 February 2019; Accepted 11 September 2019
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Oxidation reactions are essential processes in organic transformations. Thus, utilization
of practical and effective methods, especially for catalytic oxidation, has attracted great
attention during recent decades. In this regard, N-hydroxy imides (NHIs), and particularly
N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI), have been widely applied as promising and suitable cata-
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lysts for the oxidation of organic substrates.
Since initial reports by Ishii and his co-
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workers, NHPI-mediated oxidative systems have developed to become powerful catalytic
methods. Conceptually, this fosters the catalytic oxidation process through the production
of its active free-radical form, which is known as the phthalimide N-oxyl (PINO) radical.
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Traditionally, generation of PINO radicals involves the use of co-catalysts, mainly including
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such transition metal salts as Co(II), Cu(II), Mn(IV) and V(V) salts. However, in spite
of satisfactory results, employing these transition-metal complexes is not very favorable
from economic and environmental standpoints. Accordingly, metal-free catalytic systems
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have been significantly explored over the last two decades and several effective initiators
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or co-catalysts have been utilized such as 2, 2ꢀ- azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN), 1,4-diamino-
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,3-dichloro-anthraquinone, and o-phenanthroline and its analogs.
Undoubtedly, the ability to recover and reuse the catalyst is an essential topic in the
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design of any catalytic system.
Hence, during the last years several methods have
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been reported about immobilization of NHPI on solid surfaces and polymers,
well as into ionic liquids. We have recently reported the immobilization of NHPI
onto functionalized SiO coated Fe O nanoparticles, and also on NaY nano-zeolite
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as efficient recoverable catalysts for the oxidation of benzyl alcohols and hydrocarbons.
In an innovative and useful strategy, Karimi and co-workers reported simultaneous
use of silica-immobilized NHPI together with a supported cobalt complex, in order to
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achieve selective oxidation of methylaromatic compounds. It is obvious that applying
a similar catalytic system through a metal-free approach would be highly favorable,
especially from the viewpoint of green chemistry.
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Accordingly, inspired by the efforts of Xu and his co-workers
and in continu-
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ation of our attempts to extend NHPI-based heterogeneous catalytic oxidation,
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CONTACT Rahman Hosseinzadeh
Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of
Chemistry, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran
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