7437-61-8Relevant articles and documents
The selective epoxidation of conjugated olefins containing allylic substituents and epoxidation of propylene in the presence of butadiene
Monnier, John R.,Peters, Kimberly T.,Hartley, Gary W.
, p. 374 - 380 (2007/10/03)
The epoxidation of isoprene (2-methyl-1,3-butadiene) and piperylene (1,3-pentadiene), both conjugated olefins containing allylic methyl groups, has been conducted using conventional, CsCl-promoted, Ag/α-Al 2O3 catalysts. Selectivities to the allylic olefin epoxide isomers are over 20% and are much higher than expected due to the presence of the conjugated olefin structure. The epoxidation of propylene over the same catalyst under the same conditions is only 2.5%. The epoxidation of propylene in the presence of butadiene also yields PO in much higher selectivities. The presence of as little as 1% C4H6 in the reaction feedstream increases the selectivity to PO from 2.5% to over 40% at the expense of overall activity for C3H6 conversion. The upper limit of selectivity to PO in the presence of C4H6 appears to be approximately 50%, suggesting an upper limit for the effectiveness of this methodology. Epoxidation of C4H6 alone on similar Ag catalysts indicates that the consecutive reaction of EpB to CO 2/H2O is strongly limited by the presence of excess C 4H6 in the feedstream. In addition, the selectivity to EpB is directly proportional to the amount of C4H6 in the reaction feed stream. Selectivities >90% are obtained only when there is sufficient C4H6 in the reaction feedstream to control the concentration of the reactive Ag-O surface. For C4H6 epoxidation, all CO2/H2O is formed by a consecutive reaction pathway from EpB; there is no parallel pathway for the direct formation of CO2/H2O from C4H6. Using the selective epoxidation of C4H6 as the model for understanding the enhancement in selectivity for allylic olefin epoxide formation, the most likely reason for improved selectivities is that strongly adsorbed C4H6 (or other conjugated olefins) limits the ensemble size of contiguous Ag-O surface sites. These ensembles are too small for PO combustion, but not too small for PO formation.
Regio- and enantio-selective catalytic epoxidation of conjugated dienes
Rasmussen, Kaare G.,Thomsen, Dorte S.,Joergensen, Karl Anker
, p. 2009 - 2018 (2007/10/02)
The regio-and enantio-selective catalytic epoxidation of conjugated aliphatic dienes have been studied using a variety of achiral and chiral manganese salen complexes and sodum hypochlorite or iodosylbenzene as the terminal oxidant.The catalysts show a preference for the less substituted alkene in most of the dienes studied, and in some cases a regioselectivity of 100percent is found.The regioselectivity is dependent on the terminal oxidant applied.The enantiomeric excess (ee) obtained varies for the different conjugated dienes and the ee is generally highest for internal alkenes, where an ee of up to 71percent is observed, whereas 48percent is the highest observed ee for the less substituted alkenes.The ee is also dependent on the terminal oxidant applied.The regio- and enantio-selectivity have also been studied for different 1-(para-substituted phenyl)buta-1,3-dienes, but no regio- and enantio-selectivity dependence on the different subsituents are observed.A competitive epoxidation experiment with styrene and 1-phenylbuta-1,3-diene shows that the latter is the most reactive and the difference in reactivity is discussed on the basis of frontier orbitals of the two systems.The electronic structure of the oxo-manganese salen intermadiate is investigated using INDO/1 calculations and it is found that the triplet state is the most stable state of the intermediate.Based on the electronic structure of the oxo-maganese salen intermediate a mechanism of the oxygen transfer step to the conjugated diene is proposed.
Regioselective Monoepoxidation of 1,3-Dienes Catalysed by Transition-metal Complexes
Thomsen, Dorte S.,Schioett, Birgit,Jorgensen, Karl Anker
, p. 1072 - 1074 (2007/10/02)
A procedure for regioselective monoepoxidation of mainly the less substituted double bond of 1,3-dienes with sodium hypochlorite or iodosylbenzene using various metal complexes as catalysts is presented; the results obtained are different from those found when applying the usual epoxidation reagents.
