Selective quinone formation by oxidation of aromatics with heteroaromatic N-oxides catalyzed by ruthenium porphyrins.

T Higuchi, C Satake, M Hirobe

Index: Higuchi, Tsunehiko; Satake, Chika; Hirobe, Masaaki Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1995 , vol. 117, # 34 p. 8879 - 8880

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Abstract

Oxidative functionalization of unactivated hydrocarbons is a key area of metalloporphyrin chemistry from the viewpoints of the model study of cytochrome P-450 and utilization of hydrocarbon resources. A large number of oxidation systems using metalloporphyrins have been reported for alkane hydroxylation,'but little is known about the oxidation of aromatic rings catalyzed by metal1oporphyrins. la In most cases, the product yields based on the ...