title: Selective organocatalytic oxygenation of hydrocarbons by dioxygen using anthraquinones and N-hydroxyphthalimide.
abstract: [Reaction: see text] Purely organic and catalytic systems of anthraquinones and N-hydroxyphthalimide efficiently promote oxygenation of hydrocarbons with dioxygen under mild conditions, e.g., fluorene can be converted completely to fluorenone with 85% yield at 80 degrees C.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, 116023, PR China.
authors.forename: Guanyu
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Qiaohong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.forename: Xinli
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu