Benzyl alcohols, oxidation Benzylamines

Kinetic studies of hexacyanoferrate(III) oxidations have included the much-studied reaction with iodide and oxidation of the TICI2 anion, of hydrazine and hydrazinium, and of phenylhydrazine and 4-bromophenylhydrazine. These last reactions proceed by outer-sphere mechanisms, and conform to Marcus s theory. Catalyzed [Fe(CN)g] oxidations have included chlororuthenium-catalyzed oxidation of cyclohexanol, ruthenium(III)-catalyzed oxidation of 2-aminoethanol and of 3-aminopropanol, ruthenium(VI)-catalyzed oxidation of lactate, tartrate, and glycolate, and osmium(VIII)-catalyzed oxidation of benzyl alcohol and benzylamine. ... 

Fukuzumi and co-workers described spectroscopic evidence for a ix-rf- ] -peroxo-(Cu )2 species stabilized with a fcidentate nitrogen ligand, but no (catalytic) oxidation behavior towards catechol was noted (a related trinu-clear copper species converted 2,4-di-ferf-butylphenol stoichiometrically towards the biphenol derivative) [224], Stack et al. have described a similar ] -peroxo-(Cu )2 species (28, vide supra) that could be considered a structural and functional model for tyrosinase-activity, as it efficiently reacted with catechol, benzyl alcohol and benzylamine to yield quinone (95%), benzaldehyde (80%) and benzonitrile (70%) [172,173]. This dinuclear per-0X0 species is generated by association of two monomeric copper centers, in contrast to the systems based on dinucleating Ugand scaffolds described above. 

Na5PV2Moio04o supported on active carbon is active for oxidative dehydrogenation of benzylic alcohols and amines without overoxidation of benzalde-hyde and benzylamine in the liquid phase (357). The suppression of the overoxidation may be due to the lower oxidizing ability of Na5PV2Moio04o relative to its acid form. 

Barium manganate, BaMn04, is commercially available. The dark-blue crystals are obtained from aqueous solutions of barium chloride and potassium permanganate [552, 555]. It oxidizes alcohols, especially benzylic alcohols, to carbonyl compounds [552, 555] hydroquinone to quinone [555] benzylamines to benzaldehydes [555] aromatic amines to azo compounds [555] and phosphines to phosphine oxides [555],... 

The same differential behavior can be observed with amine nucleophiles. For example, calcium triflate promotes the aminolysis of propene oxide 84 with benzylamine to give 1-(A -benzyl)amino-2-propanol 85, the result of attack at the less substituted site <03T2435>, and which is also seen in the solventless reaction of epoxides with heterocyclic amines under the catalysis of ytterbium(III) triflate <03SC2989>. Conversely, zinc chloride directs the attack of aniline on styrene oxide 34 at the more substituted carbon center <03TL6026>. A ruthenium catalyst in the presence of tin chloride also results in an SNl-type substitution behavior with aniline derivatives (e.g., 88), but further provides for subsequent cyclization of the intermediate amino alcohol, thus representing an interesting synthesis of 2-substituted indoles (e.g., 89) <03TL2975>. 

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