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Other indications of the template effect have been offered as well. Fenton, Cook and Nowell reported that the condensation of pyridine-2,6-dicarbaldehyde with 1,11-diamino-3,6,9-trioxaundecane in 1 1 molar ratio in butanol leads only to resinous gums . In the presence of equimolar amounts of Pb(SCN)2, the macrocycle illustrated in Eq. (2.5) was obtained in good yield . 

Recent reports describe more sophisticated detemplation methods. However, they are limited to mesoporous materials for the reasons described before. We show how Fenton chemistry can fulfill various missing challenges (i) it provides a powerful oxidation capacity at low(er) temperatures and (ii) it can work for microporous compounds as well. 

The field of reduction is much less well charted than that of oxidation but a substantial literature exists nonetheless and is growing rapidly. Reductions are conveniently classified into (/) those involving and initial electron acceptance by the substrate (possibly followed by rapid protonation) and ( ) those involving electron acceptance concerted with, or followed very rapidly by, homolysis of the substrate the latter includes the important Fenton and silver-persulphate reactions, as well as reductions of halogens, hydrazine and possibly NO3 and NOJ. 

This concerted reduction by two ferrous species eliminates H02- (or O2 ) as an intermediate and explains the weak catalysis by Cu(II) (which is strong for V([II) and V(IV) autoxidations). Weiss has suggested that the species Fe. 02.Fe may be a stable intermediate, but Wells explains the presence of two Fe(Il) species in the rate law in terms of a pre-existing dimeric form of Fe(lf) containing an H2O bridge, for which there is evidence . The reduction is completed via the Fenton reaction vide infra). The hydrogen peroxide dianion is probably never free but is protonated whilst complexed to Fe(III). 

In the presence of metal catalysts, hydrogen peroxide oxidations proceed in improved yields. The most common catalyst is an iron(II) salt which produces the well-known Fenton system or reagent. Dimethyl sulphoxide is oxidized to the sulphone using this system although a range of unwanted side-products such as methanol and methane are produced Diphenyl sulphoxide does not react using this reagent due to its insolubility and in all cases some iron(III) is formed by other side-reactions. 

If the mechanism of superoxide production in microsomes by NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase, NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase, and cytochrome P-450 is well documented, it cannot be said about microsomal hydroxyl radical production. There are numerous studies, which suggest the formation of hydroxyl radicals in various mitochondrial preparations and by isolated microsomal enzymes. It has been shown that the addition of iron complexes to microsomes stimulated the formation of hydroxyl radicals supposedly via the Fenton... 

Follow-up work by Sires et al. (2007) proposed combining BDD with Fenton processes as well as UV catalysts to favor the photodecomposition of complexes of Fe with the carboxylic acids that are generated. The Fe is regenerated, producing more OH from the photoreduction of Fe(OH) ... 

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