Manganese complexes applications

Azidosilation, of iminoboranes, 31 158, 163 Aziridination, manganese complex applications, 46 402-403... 

The catalytic application of clays is related closely to their swelling properties. Appropriate swelling enables the reactant to enter the interlamellar region. The ion exchange is usually performed in aquatic media because the swelling of clays in organic solvents, and thus the expansion of the interlayer space, is limited and it makes it difficult for a bulky metal complex to penetrate between the layers. Nonaqueous intercalation of montmorillonite with a water-sensitive multinuclear manganese complex was achieved, however, with the use of nitromethane as solvent.139 The complex cation is intercalated parallel to the sheets. 

The case study of the tetranuclear manganese complex presented above and the specific examples of structure/spectroscopy correlations have established the validity of the proposed methods and set the stage for more ambitious applications. The first such application has been the recent evaluation of several structural models of the OEC in the S2 state ( 1 3) of the Kok cycle (107). Twelve structural models were considered, 10 of which were based on Mn405Ca core topologies derived by polarized EXAFS spectra. Figure 19 shows one of the models included in the set. 

Very recently, Jprgensen s group reported the preparation of some chiral nitrido-manganese complexes, which closely resemble those synthesized by the authors group, and the application to asymmetric amination of silyl enol ethers with the chiral complexes using Carreira s method [35], These results were very similar to those of the authors [22]. 

The applicability of the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation is however limited to functionalized alcohols, i.e. allylic alcohols (see Table 4.11). The best method for non-functionalized olefins is the Jacobsen-Kaksuki method. Only a few years after the key publication of Kochi and coworkers on salen-manganese complexes as catalysts for epoxidations, Jacobsen and Kaksuki independently described, in 1990, the use of chiral salen manganese (111) catalysts for the synthesis of optically active epoxides [276, 277] (Fig. 4.99). Epoxidations can be carried out using commercial bleach (NaOCl) or iodosylbenzene as terminal oxidants and as little as 0.5 mol% of catalyst. The active oxidant is an oxomanganese(V) species. 

The application of X-ray absorption spectroscopy to the study of structure of the manganese complex... 

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