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Co-containing POMs have been found to be among the most efficient catalysts for homogeneous aerobic oxidation and co-oxidation processes [91-93]. This prompted many researchers to design solid Co-POM-containing materials [78,94-100]. Thus, various Co-POMs have been deposited on cotton cloth [94] and silica [100], datively [95] or electrostatically [96,97] bonded to NH2-modified silica surfaces (vide infra) as well as intercalated in LDHs [78,98,99]. The resulting materials were successfully used for aerobic oxidation of aldehydes, alkenes, alkanes, alcohols and some other organic substrates. 

Chiral porphyrin ligands have been used in asymmetric direct 02catalytic oxidations. The first catalytic asymmetric homogeneous aerobic epoxidation, not requiring an aldehyde coreductant, was achieved with a Ru(Vl)dioxo-(D4-porphyrinato) complex, 15 (Scheme 5.12) [43]. Although these chiral mthe-nium complexes have promoted good asymmetric induction in the product, the TON is still quite low [38]. Currently, a synthetically viable homogeneous aerobic epoxidation catalyst without coreductants has not been developed. 

Present developments. One might think that an established reaction such as aerobic oxidation (or autoxidation) is not the subject of further research and improvement, but this is definitely not the case and both new homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts are in development. In the introduction we already mentioned the drawbacks of oxidation of cyclohexene to adipic acid and several researchers address this challenge. Also a highly developed reaction such as the oxidation of paraxylene is subject to further improvements. 

MPa O2). The role of the encapsulated [Co(salophen)] complexes is to catalyze the aerobic oxidation of hydroquinone to p-benzoquinone, which in turn oxidizes Pd(0). For the oxidation of 1,3-cyclohexadiene to l,4-diacetoxy-2-cyclohexene, the most active catalyst system involved the encapsulated complex [Co(tetra-tert-butyl-salophen)], which afforded product yields of 85-95% after 3 h at room temperature with greater than 90% trans-selectivity. This complex displayed significantly higher activity than the encapsulated [Co(salophen)] complex (72% yield in 3h) and the analogous homogeneous complex (86% yield in 5h). The increased activity of the t-butyl substituted catalyst was attributed to distortion of the bulky complex by the... 

The Wacker process (Eq. 1) was developed nearly 50 years ago [1-3] and represents one of the most successful examples of homogeneous catalysis in industry [4-9]. This palladium-catalyzed method for the oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde in aqueous solution employs a copper cocatalyst to facilitate aerobic oxidation of Pd° (Scheme 1). Despite the success of this process, certain features of the reaction have Umited the development of related aerobic oxidation reactions. Many organic molecules are only sparingly sol-... 

Aqueous biphasic catalysis is also used in homogeneous hydrogenations.117-119 In new examples Ru clusters with the widely used TPPTN [tris(3-sulfonatophenyl) phosphine] ligand120 and Rh complexes with novel carboxylated phosphines121 were applied in alkene hydrogenation, whereas Ru catalysts were used in the hydro-genation of aromatics. Aerobic oxidation of terminal alkenes to methyl ketones was carried out in a biphasic liquid-liquid system by stable, recyclable, water-soluble Pd(II) complexes with sulfonated bidentate diamine ligands.124... 

Berberine inhibits oxidative decarboxylation of yeast pyruvic acid (310) the same dose has, however, no effect upon aerobic glycolysis, Warburg s respiratory enzymes, indophenol oxidase, etc. Berberine and tetrahydroberberine have an inhibitory effect on oxidation of (+ )-alanine in rat kidney homogenates (498). Berberine and palmatine show a specific inhibitory effect upon cholinesterase in rabbit spleen and on pseudocholinesterase in horse serum (499). Berberine inhibits cellular respiration in ascitic tumors and even in tissue cultures (500-502). The specific toxic effect of berberine on the respiration of cells of ascitic tumors in mice was described (310). The glycolysis was not found to be affected, but the uptake of oxygen was smaller. Fluorescence was used in order to demonstrate berberine in cellular granules. Hirsch (503) assumed that respiration is inhibited by the effect of berberine on the yellow respiratory enzymes. Since the tumorous tissue contains a smaller number of yellow respiratory enzymes than normal tissue it is more readily affected by berberine. Subcutaneous injections of berberine, palmatine, or tetrahydropalmatine significantly reduce the content of ascorbic acid in the suprarenals, which is not affected by hypophysectomy (504). 

Schultz MJ, Sigman MS (2006) Recent advances in homogeneous transition metal-catalyzed aerobic alcohol oxidations. Tetrahedron 62(35) 8227-8241... 

The nitroxyl-based systems are the most important and widely investigated homogeneous catalysts for the aerobic and non-aerobic oxidation of alcohols [9]. The different mechanisms with persistent (Scheme 1) and nonpersistent (Scheme 2) nitroxyl radicals is reflected in the selectivity of primary alcohol oxidation. Several... 

Heterogeneous TEMPO catalysts have much lower catalytic efficiency than their homogeneous counterparts, however. A convenient compromise [4, 5a, 6] is the use of the nitroxyl radical 6, prepared from the commercially available antioxidant Chimassorb 966. This catalyst, which is soluble in acidic medium, is quite effective in promoting the aerobic oxidation under mild conditions and, after easy recovery, can be conveniently reused [4, 5a, 6],... 

The industrially important acetoxylation consists of the aerobic oxidation of ethylene into vinyl acetate in the presence of acetic acid and acetate. The catalytic cycle can be closed in the same way as with the homogeneous Wacker acetaldehyde catalyst, at least in the older liquid-phase processes (320). Current gas-phase processes invariably use promoted supported palladium particles. Related fundamental work describes the use of palladium with additional activators on a wide variety of supports, such as silica, alumina, aluminosilicates, or activated carbon (321-324). In the presence of promotors, the catalysts are stable for several years (320), but they deactivate when the palladium particles sinter and gradually lose their metal surface area. To compensate for the loss of acetate, it is continuously added to the feed. The commercially used catalysts are Pd/Cd on acid-treated bentonite (montmorillonite) and Pd/Au on silica (320). 

Besides hypochlorite, oxygen can also be used as the oxidant.9,10 Unfortunately, in contrast to homogeneous TEMPO the combination of PIPO and RuCl2(PPh3)3 in chlorobenzene10 is not able to catalyse the aerobic oxidation of octan-2-ol, probably owing to coordination of ruthenium to the polyamine. On the other hand, in combination with CuCl in DMF,9 it catalyses the aerobic oxidation of benzylalcohol to benzaldehyde within 1.5 hours (entry 2 table 4).24 The activity of PIPO is comparable to that of TEMPO (entries 4 and 5) and is superior to that of the previously described heterogeneous TEMPO systems (entries 6,7 and 8). CuCl/PIPO also catalyses the aerobic oxidation of benzylalcohol under solvent-free conditions (entry 3). 

Ruthenium compounds have been extensively studied as catalysts for the aerobic oxidation of alcohols [142]. They operate under mild conditions and offer possibilities for both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. The activity of common ruthenium precursors such as RuCl2PPh3, can be increased by the use of ionic liquids as solvents (Fig. 4.58). Tetramethylammoniumhydroxide and aliquat 336 (tricaprylylmethylammonium chloride) were used as solvent and rapid conversion of benzyl alcohol was observed [145]. Moreover the tetra-methylammonium hydroxide/RuCl2(PPh3)3 could be reused after extraction of the product. 

Biffis A, Cunial S, Spontoni P, Prati L (2007) Microgel-stabilized gold nanoclusters powerful quasi-homogeneous catalysts for the aerobic oxidation of alcohols in water. J Catal 251 1-6... 

Chaudhuri, P., Hess, M., FTrke, U., and Wieghardt, K., 1998, From Structural Models of Galactose Oxidase to Homogeneous Catalysis Efficient Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 37 2217n2220. 

Compared to the multistep electron-transfer process shown in Scheme 3.4, more simple aerobic oxidations of alcohols were reported with various homogeneous and heterogeneous ruthenium catalysts. The aerobic oxidation of alcohols with metal catalysts is an attractive method for economical and environmental reasons. Aerobic oxidation of alcohols can be carried out using RUCI3 catalyst with moderate conversion and selectivities (Eq. 3.13) [31]. Since this reaction was first reported, an arduous search for suitable catalysts has been continuing using various ruthenium complexes (Table 3.1). 

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