Halogenation with vanadium complexes

VO(acac)2 < VO(Et-acac)2 VO(Me-acac)2 BMOV. Conversion rates for all hydrolysis products were faster than for the original species. Both EPR and visible spectroscopic studies of solutions prepared for administration to diabetic rats ocumented both a salt effect on the species formed and formation of a new halogen-containing complex. The authors concluded that vanadium compound efficacy with respect to long-term lowering of plasma glucose levels in diabetic rats traced the concentration of the hydrolysis product in the administration solution. 

Few redox studies with cubic mesoporous materials have been reported [52]. The large, complex, three-dimensional pore system offers a unique environment. Ti- and Cr-substituted MCM-48 have been studied for the selective oxidation of methyl methacrylate and styrene to methyl pyruvate and benzaldehyde, respectively, using peroxides as oxidants and were found to outperform TS-1. Ti-MCM-48 has also been found to be better than Ti-MCM-41, TS-1 and Ti02 for the photocatalytic reduction of CO2 and H2O to methane and methanol. Ti-grafted MCM-48 has also been reported as the first functional biomimic of vanadium bromoperoxidase, active at neutral pH and used in the peroxidative halogenation of bulky organic dyes. 

Trivalent vanadium exists only as a (hexahydrated) ion, V(H20)8, m an aqueous solution. The most readily formed complexes are the halogens and halogenoids. The following complexes are formed with fluoride ions VfI , VFi -H20, VF4-2H20 [6]. Chloride ion forms the VC1 -H20 complex. The cyanide complex [7] has been isolated but is unstable in aqueous solution. However, several thiocyanate complexes have been reported [7,8]. Only the V(SCN) and the V(SCN) appear to be stable in water, the latter only at high concentrations of thiocyanate. 

The vanadium group element homoleptic compounds with uM —C bonds are relatively thermally unstable and very sensitive to oxidizing agents and water. They also have the tendency to expand the coordination number as a result of R" or Lewis base (amine, phosphine, etc.) addition. Heteroleptic complexes possessing cyclopentadienyl, halogen, 0x0, acetylacetonate, etc., ligands are usually more thermally stable than homoleptic complexes such as MR4. 

Various other solvate complexes can be obtained, when transition, metals are reacted with the free halogens in acetonitrile . In this way TiCl4(AN)2, TiBr4(AN)2 and a polyhalide [Ti(AN)6] [Isis are produced. Chlorine, bromine and iodine oxidize vanadium to trivalent compounds, namely VCl3(AN)3AN, [VBr2(AN)4]Br and the polyiodide [V(AN)6][Is]s- With chromium CrCls(AN)3AN, a bromide of variable (composition and [Crl2(AN)4]I are obtaincd. ... 

Friedel-Crafts reaction catalysts like anhydrous aluminum chloride are readily soluble in the nitroalkanes. Solutions containing up to 50% aluminum chloride are easily prepared in nitroalkane solvents. These catalytically active complexes, AICI3-RNO2, can be isolated and used in solvents other than the nitroalkane. The reactants in the Friedel-Crafts reaction are often soluble in the nitroalkane reaction medium. Other catalysts like boron trifluoride (BF3), titanium tetrachloride (TiC ), and stannic tetrachloride (SnClj) are also soluble in the nitroalkane solvents. Reaction types which use nitroparaffins as solvents include alkylation of aromatics, acetylation of aromatics, halogenations, nitrations, and the reaction of olefins and hydrogen sulfide to yield mercaptans. Nitroparaffins are used with catalysts such as alkyl-metal (e.g., triethylaluminum, vanadium, or titanium) salts in the polymerization reactions of alkylene oxides, epichlorohydrin, propylene, butylene, vinyl chloride, and vinyl ethers. The nitroparaffin acts as an activator for the catalyst or can serve as the reaction solvent. 

Biomimetic Cu(II) and Fe(II) complexes with bis- and tris-pyridyl amino and imino thioether ligands and vacant (or potentially so) coordination positions (Fig. y are active as catalyst precursors for the solvent- and halogen-free MW-assisted oxidation of 1-phenylethanol by TBHP, in the presence of pyridazine or other N-based additives. Maximum TOF of 5220 h (corresponding to 87% yield) was achieved just after 5 min of reaction time under the low power MW irradiation. The same authors reported" the catalytic activity of related copper, iron, and vanadium systems with mixed-N,S pyridine thioether hgands. The Cu and Fe complexes proved to be useful catalysts in various MW-assisted alcohol oxidations with TBHP, at 80 °C. Thus, 5-containing ligands can also be used to create effective catalyst precursors. 

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