Selective organocatalytic oxygenation of hydrocarbons by dioxygen using anthraquinones and N-hydroxyphthalimide.
[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.
Yang
Guanyu
G
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.
Zhang
Qiaohong
Q
Miao
Hong
H
Tong
Xinli
X
Xu
Jie
J