title: Iron polynitroporphyrins bearing up to eight beta-nitro groups as interesting new catalysts for H2O2-dependent hydrocarbon oxidation: unusual regioselectivity in hydroxylation of alkoxybenzenes.
abstract: A series of iron porphyrins bearing one to eight beta-nitro substituents were synthesized and evalauted as catalysts for hydrocarbon oxidation with H2O2; iron porphyrins bearing five or six beta-nitro groups were the best catalysts for cyclooctene epoxidation and adamantane or anisole hydroxylation without need of a cocatalyst, and led to very different regioselectivities with either H2O2 or PhIO as oxidants, as shown by an unusual ortho-hydroxylation of alkoxybenzenes highly favored in the H2O2-dependent oxidations.
authors.affiliation: UMR 8601, Universite Paris V, 45 Rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris, France.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Bartoli
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Le Barch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Palacio
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Battioni
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mansuy