Peroxo complexes reactions

There have been a number of attempts to establish the redox potentials of these couples but these have not always allowed for possible dissociation or protonation of the/<-peroxo complex (reactions A and B, Fig. 16) and do not always agree. The most recent values obtained by rapid cyclic voltammetry allow for these effects and show that protonation of the /r-peroxo complex stabilises it to oxidation. 

One feature of these reactions is the challenge in distinguishing between simple substitution and redox reactions. A radical can add to become a radical ligand, or a change of oxidation state of the metal center can accompany the reaction. For example, when superoxide adds to a Co(II) center there can be ambiguity as to whether the product is a Co(II)-superoxo complex or a Co(III)-peroxo complex. Moreover, there is the possibility that a Co(II)-superoxo complex might form initially, and then intramolecular electron transfer might occur to yield a Co(III)-peroxo complex. Reactions of NO raise similar issues. 

Figure 14.5 (a) Reaction of Al,Al -ethylenebis(3-Bu -salicylideniminato)cobalt(II) with dioxygen and pyridine to form the superoxo complex [Co(3-Bu Salen)2(02)py] the py ligand is almost coplanar with the Co-O-O plane, the angle between the two being 18°.< (b) Reversible formation of the peroxo complex [Ir(C0)Cl(02)(PPh3)2]. The more densely shaded part of the complex is accurately coplanar. ... 

Similarly, when both the Cp and arene ligands are permethylated, the reaction of 02 with the Fe1 complex leads to C-H activation of the more acidic benzyl bond [57]. When no benzylic hydrogen is present, superoxide reacts as a nucleophile and adds onto the benzene ligand of the FeCp(arene)+ cation to give a peroxocyclohexadienyl radical which couples with a Fe Cp(arene) radical. A symmetrical bridging peroxo complex [(Fe"Cp)2(r 5-C6H60)2] is obtained. The C-H activation reactions of the 19e Fe1 radicals BH can be summarized as follows... 

The reaction of (Bu NC)2Ni02 and hexafluoroacetone at —50° C yields a cyclic peroxo complex (XXXVIII) which loses one oxygen on dissolution in ether to give (XXXIX). 

In the same spirit DFT studies on peroxo-complexes in titanosilicalite-1 catalyst were performed [3]. This topic was selected since Ti-containing porous silicates exhibited excellent catalytic activities in the oxidation of various organic compounds in the presence of hydrogen peroxide under mild conditions. Catalytic reactions include epoxidation of alkenes, oxidation of alkanes, alcohols, amines, hydroxylation of aromatics, and ammoximation of ketones. The studies comprised detailed analysis of the activated adsorption of hydrogen peroxide with... 

Fe-Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions of Olefins, Alkanes, and Alcohols Involvement of Oxo- and Peroxo Complexes... 

Because there exist a number of reviews which deals with the structural and mechanistic aspects of high-valent iron-oxo and peroxo complexes [6,7], we focus in this report on the application and catalysis of iron complexes in selected important oxidation reactions. When appropriate we will discuss the involvement and characterization of Fe-oxo intermediates in these reactions. 

Unfortunately, there is no Ti-hydroperoxo compound of known structure to be used as a model. Conversely, the structure of several Ti-peroxo complexes are known by diffraction studies [111-113], all of them showing the side on r] geometry. None of these compounds is known to be active in partial oxidation reactions [114,115]. Similar considerations can be addressed... 

In a similar fashion, the homoleptic complex [Pd(ITmt) ] lb readily reacts with O2 to form the corresponding peroxo-complex 2b (Scheme 10.1). This complex, npon exposure to CO, leads to the peroxo-carbonate complex 3b [10]. Under the same reaction conditions, the formation of 3a does not occur, presumably due to the larger steric hindrance of the Mes ligand. 

CoCl(PPh3)3], Reaction of [Co(TIMEN )]Cl 9 with oxygen in the presence of NaBPh leads to the formation of the peroxo-complex [Co(r -02)(TIMEN 5 )] BPh 10, which is a rare example of a side-on r -peroxo cobalt complex (the majority of Co-O -adducts are rj -O -complexes, i.e. end-on). The authors also showed that 10 is capable of converting molecular oxygen to benzoylchloride. 

Fig. 4. Substrate first binds to the complete system containing all three protein components. Addition of NADH next effects two-electron reduction of the hydroxylase from the oxidized Fe(III)Fe(III) to the fully reduced Fe(II)Fe(II) form, bypassing the inactive Fe(II)Fe(III) state. The fully reduced hydroxylase then reacts with dioxygen in a two-electron step to form the first known intermediate, a diiron(III) peroxo complex. The possibility that this species itself is sufficiently activated to carry out the hydroxylation reaction for some substrates cannot be ruled out. The peroxo intermediate is then converted to Q as shown in Fig. 3. Substrate reacts with Q, and product is released with concomitant formation of the diiron(III) form of the hydroxylase, which enters another cycle in the catalysis.

Dioxygen and its ions can bind in mononuclear and dinuclear structures in a number of ways,962 as illustrated in Scheme 1. The typical reaction of dioxygen with Co compounds involves a number of these binding forms, outlined in Scheme 2. Mononuclear Co111—peroxo complexes are relatively rare, but yellow trigonal bipyramidal complexes [Co(02)L2]+ (L = chelating phosphines dppe or dppp) have been characterized structurally where the 022 is bonded to the Co in the side-on r]2 form (Co—O 1.858(7) 1.881(4) A), with O—O stretching frequencies ( 870 cm-1) consistent with Coin-peroxo speciation.963... 

Sajus et al. [243,244] synthesized the peroxo complex of molybdenum(VI) and studied its reaction with a series of olefins. This peroxo complex M0O5 was proved to react with olefins with epoxide formation. The selectivity of the reaction increases with a decrease in the complex concentration. It was found to be as much as 95% at epoxidation of cyclohexene by M0O3 in a concentration 0.06 mol L-1 at 288 K in dichloroethylene [244], The rate of the reaction was found to be... 

It seems very probable that the epoxidation reaction proceeds through a two-stage mechanism. Hydroperoxide oxidizes the catalyst to peroxo complex and the this complex performs epoxidation of olefins. 

It was presumed that the more flexible (CH2) linker and the absence of an obvious position for electrophilic attack such as is found in system Cu2(R-XYL-H)]2+, as seen in Figure 5.14, would lead to more rapid oxygenation reactions and a more stable complex than that formed from [Cu2(R-XYL-H)]2+. Instead the researchers found a more complex system in kinetically controlled oxygenation studies. Two different peroxo complexes form via a postulated open-chain superoxo species as shown in the scheme shown in Figure 5.17.41a... 

Some evidence to suggest that peroxo complexes can be intermediates in the oxidation of Pt(II) by 02 has been presented. As shown in Scheme 41, a Pt(IV) peroxo complex was obtained by reacting cis-PtCl2(DMSO)2 and 1,4,7-triazacyclononane (tacn) in ethanol in the presence of air (200). An alkylperoxoplatinum(IV) complex is obtained in the reaction of (phen)PtMe2 (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) with dioxygen and isopropyl-iodide. Under conditions that favor radical formation (light or radical initiators), an isopropylperoxoplatinum(IV) compound was obtained (201,202), depicted in Scheme 42. 

Several general reviews describe the state of the art of peroxide epoxidation catalyzed by TM compounds at about a decade ago [2A. Later on, specialized reviews dealt with particular peroxides ofCr, Mo, andW [5], V [6], and with epoxidation reactions catalyzed by methyltrioxorhenium (MTO) [7] that involve Re peroxo complexes as species responsible for the oxygen transfer. 

Despite of the common reaction mechanism, peroxo complexes exhibit very different reactivities - as shown by the calculated activation energies -depending on the particular structure (nature of the metal center, peroxo or hydroperoxo functionalities, type and number of ligands). We proposed a model [72, 80] that is able to qualitatively rationalize differences in the epoxidation activities of a series of structurally similar TM peroxo compounds CH3Re(02)20-L with various Lewis base ligands L. In this model the calculated activation barriers of direct oxygen transfer from a peroxo group... 

For the favorable reaction mechanism, the direct front-side attack, three findings are worth noting, (i) The activation barriers for analogous species decrease along the series Cr > Mo > W. (ii) The barriers for the di(peroxo) species are lower than those of the corresponding mono(peroxo) complexes, (iii) Coordination of a second base ligand significantly increases the activation barrier. 

These findings for Re peroxo complexes are in striking contrast with Ti and V catalyzed reactions [41, 51, 52, 111, 113] in which the metal-alcoholate bond drives the allylic OH directivity. We recall that the formation of alcoholate intermediates was also rejected for epoxidations of allylic alcohols with Mo and W peroxo compounds while H-bonding (between OH and the reacting peroxo fragment) was considered consistent with kinetic data for these complexes [115]. 

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