Cobalt phthalocyanines palladium complexes

A mild aerobic palladium-catalyzed 1,4-diacetoxylation of conjugated dienes has been developed and is based on a multistep electron transfer46. The hydroquinone produced in each cycle of the palladium-catalyzed oxidation is reoxidized by air or molecular oxygen. The latter reoxidation requires a metal macrocycle as catalyst. In the aerobic process there are no side products formed except water, and the stoichiometry of the reaction is given in equation 19. Thus 1,3-cyclohexadiene is oxidized by molecular oxygen to diacetate 39 with the aid of the triple catalytic system Pd(II)—BQ—MLm where MLm is a metal macrocyclic complex such as cobalt tetraphenylporphyrin (Co(TPP)), cobalt salophen (Co(Salophen) or iron phthalocyanine (Fe(Pc)). The principle of this biomimetic aerobic oxidation is outlined in Scheme 8. 

Several metal macrocycles, like iron phthalocyanine and cobalt salophen were tested in these palladium-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of olefins and dienes. These tnacrocycles were able to activate the molecular oxygen, but in the homogeneous system several problems have arised, such as poor solubility, self-degradation and the difficulty to reuse theses complexes. A... 

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