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JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 694, Issue 25, Pages 4032-4035Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2009.08.032
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Epoxidation; Homogeneous catalysis; Methyltrioxorhenium (MTO); N-donors; Pyridine; Schiff-base
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This report presents a comparative study on the influence of various N-donor ligands coordinated to methyltrioxorhenium (MTO) on the catalytic activity of olefin epoxidation. A monodentate (4-tert-butylpyridine), a bidentate (4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine) and a Schiff-base ligand were chosen for the coordination to MTO. This report is supposed to act as a benchmark for past and future results in this type of catalysis. Until now, unfortunately, the results are often difficult to compare due to varying sets of reaction conditions. In the present examination, identical reaction conditions were applied to find the optimum in performance. Accordingly, (i) ligand concentration, (ii) reaction temperature, (iii) catalyst concentration, (iv) olefin and (v) the solvent were varied. For labile olefins such as trans-beta-methylstyrene, both the monodentate and the bidentate pyridine derivates show very good selectivities and activities with a MTO/ligand ratio of 1: 5 at 25 degrees C. The Schiff-base is only a useful additive for the epoxidation of cyclooctene. Due to phase transfer effects it is difficult to compare two-phase systems (solvent dichloromethane (DCM)) to one-phase systems (solvent tert-butanol). A correlation between rotation speed of the stirrer and the turnover frequency was observed. (C) 2009 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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