Remote oxidations alkanes

A patent has been lodged covering the sulfochlorination of gaseous alkanes. " Photochemical bromination using N-bromosuccinimide of the arenes (136) has been examined under a nitrogen atmosphere. The remote functionalization of the alcohol (137) has been carried out using DIB/Ii/cyclohexane. The product obtained from this, after oxidation, is the iodoketone (138, 84%). ... 

This review will deal with the direct and indirect anodic oxidation of unactivated CH bonds in alkanes, and of remote CH bonds in substrates with various functional groups. The conversion of CH bonds activated by vinyl, aryl, amino or alkoxy groups will not be dealt with in this chapter. However, the catalytic oxidation of alkanes in fuel cells and the oxidation of alkanes with molecular oxygen and iron catalysts are included. 

The photodecomposition of the various oxidation products of the alkanes, alkenes, and the aromatic hydrocarbons play important roles in the chemistry of the urban, mral, and remote atmospheres. These processes provide radical and other reachve products that help drive the chemistry that leads to ozone generation and other important chemistty in the troposphere. In this chapter, we have reviewed the evidence for the nature of the primary processes that occur in the aldehydes, ketones, alkyl nitrites, nittoalkanes, alkyl nitrates, peroxyacyl nitrates, alkyl peroxides, and some representative, ttopospheric, sunlight-absorbing aromatic compounds. Where sufficient data exist, estimates have been made of the rate of the photolytic processes that occur in these molecules by calculation of the photolysis frequencies ory-values. These rate coefficients allow estimation of the photochemical lifetimes of the various compounds in the atmosphere as well as the rates at which various reactive products are formed through photolysis. 

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