Porphyrin complexes manganese

In company with manganese porphyrin complex, ruthenium porphyrins have already shown great catalytic activity in the intermolecular amidation of saturated G-H bonds. However, examples of amidation of aromatic... 

Recently, Sugimoto et al. demonstrated that manganese-porphyrin complex 39 co-polymerized GHO with G02- Even under 0.10 MPa of GO2, the co-polymerization proceeds to give a co-polymer with high carbonate linkage content of 95%. 

Finally, catalytic hydrogen production from manganese porphyrin complexes using triphenylphosphine as an oxygen acceptor has been demonstrated.98... 

One motivation for the characterization of the above compounds has been to more fully understand the involvement of such higher valent manganese porphyrin complexes in model systems which imitate the catalytic activity of monooxygenase cytochrome P-450 and related enzymes. The catalytic cycle of cytochrome P-450 appears to involve the binding and reduction of molecular oxygen at a haem centre followed by the ultimate formation of a reactive iron oxo complex which is responsible for oxidation of the substrate. For example, cytochrome P-450 is able to catalyse alkane hydroxylation with great selectivity. 

Apart from the commonly used NaOCl, urea—H2O2 has been used/ With this reaction, simple alkenes can be epoxi-dized with high enantioselectivity. The mechanism of this reaction has been examined.Radical intermediates have been suggested for this reaction, polymer-bound Mn -salen complex, in conjunction with NaOCl, has been used for asymmetric epoxidation. Chromium-salen complexes and ruthenium-salen complexes have been used for epoxidation. Manganese porphyrin complexes have also been used. Cobalt complexes give similar results. A related epoxidation reaction used an iron complex with molecular oxygen and isopropanal. Nonracemic epoxides can be prepared from racemic epoxides with salen-cobalt(II) catalysts following a modified procedure for kinetic resolution. 

Key Words Polymer-supported catalysts, Manganese(ll) complexes, Manganese-salen complexes, Manganese-porphyrin complexes,... 

With respect to the widely investigated metalloporphyrins for catalytic epoxidation, progress was made in the area of polymer-supported ruthenium porphyrins for asymmetric epoxidation. Manganese-porphyrin complexes attached via peptide linkers to organic polymers showed enhanced selectivity and catalyst stability due to donor atoms in the linker that could coordinate to the metal center. This shows that improvement can be achieved not only by optimization of the polymer or metal complex but also by appropriate choice of the linker. Furthermore, electropolymerization by anodic oxidation of suitable manganese-porphyrin complexes proved to be a promising technique for the preparation of efficient immobilized epoxidation catalysts. 

For manganese-porphyrin complexes, a first example leading to very low enantiomeric excesses was reported by Groves [41]. Additionally, Halterman described a D4-symmetrical tetraphenylporphyrin-manganese(III) complex [42]. Employing a catalyst loading of 0.25 mol % with respect to the sulfide and with... 

Taken together, the various reactions and interconversions of these manganese porphyrin complexes have allowed the examination of each step in the activation of molecular oxygen by the mechanism suggested for P-450. Detailed mechanistic studies of the 0-0 bond cleavage event in 29 by kinetics, substituent effects, and product analysis showed that the reaction proceeds via heterolysis to produce 27 when acid is present, whereas homolysis is predominant in the absence of acid but in the presence of hydroxide ion (95). Under basic conditions, homo-lytic cleavage of the 0-0 bond of 29 forms Mn (=0)TMP (28) and an acyl-oxyl radical. Thus, when an alkyl peroxy acid is employed, decarboxylation competes with electron transfer, as shown in Scheme IX, to afford a mixture of 27 and 28. Yuan and Bruice have proposed a similar heterolysis mechanism based on the kinetic analysis for the reaction of mCPBA with catalytic amounts ofMn TPP(/(W). 

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