Stoichiometric oxidants

Stoichiometric Oxidative Reactions with Pd(II) Compounds in which Pd(II) is Reduced to Pd(0)... 

Alkynes undergo stoichiometric oxidative reactions with Pd(II). A useful reaction is oxidative carboiiyiation. Two types of the oxidative carbonyla-tion of alkynes are known. The first is a synthesis of the alkynic carbox-ylates 524 by oxidative carbonylation of terminal alkynes using PdCN and CuCh in the presence of a base[469], Dropwise addition of alkynes is recommended as a preparative-scale procedure of this reation in order to minimize the oxidative dimerization of alkynes as a competitive reaction[470]. Also efficient carbonylation of terminal alkynes using PdCU, CuCI and LiCi under CO-O2 (1 I) was reported[471]. The reaction has been applied to the synthesis of the carbapenem intermediate 525[472], The steroidal acetylenic ester 526 formed by this reaction undergoes the hydroarylalion of the triple bond (see Chapter 4, Section 1) with aryl iodide and formic acid to give the lactone 527(473],... 

Figure 7.1 The generation of shear planes in a non-stoichiometric oxide resulting from the elimination of oxygen ions...

Non-stoichiometric oxides near the metal-rich border ... 

The LEL occurs at about 50% of the stoichiometric oxidation concentration at ambient temperature and pressure. 

A special mention is in order of high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM), a variant that permits columns of atoms normal to the specimen surface to be imaged the resolution is better than an atomic diameter, but the nature of the image is not safely interpretable without the use of computer simulation of images to check whether the assumed interpretation matches what is actually seen. Solid-state chemists studying complex, non-stoichiometric oxides found this image simulation approach essential for their work. The technique has proved immensely powerful, especially with respect to the many types of defect that are found in microstructures. 

As materials chemistry has developed, it has come to pay more and more attention to that archetypal concern of materials scientists, microstructure. That concern came in early when the defects inherent in non-stoichiometric oxides were studied by the Australian. I.S. Anderson and others (an early treatment was in a book edited by Rabenau 1970), but has become more pronounced recently in the rapidly growing emphasis on self-assembly of molecules or colloidal particles. This has not yet featured much in books on materials chemistry, but an excellent recent popular account of the broad field has a great deal to say on self-assembly (Ball 1997). The phenomenon of graphoepitaxy outlined in Section 10.5.1.1 is a minor example of what is meant by self-assembly. 

Finally, it should be mentioned that ionic liquids have successfully been used in classical, stoichiometric oxidation reactions as well. Singer et al., for example, described the application of [BMIM][Bp4] in the oxidation of codeine methyl ether to thebaine [64]. The ionic liquid was used here as a very convenient solvent to extract excess Mn02 and associated impurities from the reaction mixture. 

This assumes that anion vacancies are present to a significant extent only in the non-stoichiometric oxide, which is not in fact true for T1O2. 

Consider the stoichiometric oxide MO . If the unit cell of volume Q contains z molecules, the density is... 

Investigations based on equation (a) are indirect. Direct structural studies using diffraction techniques (X-ray or neutron), or electron microscopy, while they cannot detect the low concentrations of defects present in NiO or CoO are indispensible to the study of grossly non-stoichiometric oxides like FeO, TiOj, WOj etc., and particularly electron microscopes with a point-to-point resolution of about 0.2 nm are widely used. The first direct observation of a point defect (actually a complex of two interstitial metal atoms, and two oxygen atoms in Nb,2029) was made" using electron microscopy. 

For definiteness, the oxidation of copper to copper(l) oxide may be considered. Our picture of the process is that cation vacancies and positive holes formed at the Cu O/Oj interface by equation, 1.166 are transported to the Cu/CujO interface where they are destroyed by copper dissolving in the non-stoichiometric oxide. We require an expression for the rate of oxidation. 

Closer examination of Fig. 7.84 shows that each of the non-stoichiometric oxides has a region of homogeneity over which the compound is the sole stable phase. It has been observed, from a number of gas-metal systems, that the lower oxides (here MjO and MO ) usually show a wider region of non-stoichiometric behaviour than the higher oxides (here MO2). 

Regions of Homogeneity of Non-stoichiometric Oxides in the Surface interaction Layers and the Effect of Oxygen Pressure on their Range of Stabiiity... 

Further improvement of this process was accomplished by Yudin and Sharpless by use of the stoichiometric oxidant bis(trimethylsilyl) peroxide (BTSP, Scheme 12.7) [28],... 

The most widely employed methods for the synthesis of nitrones are the condensation of carbonyl compounds with A-hydroxylamines5 and the oxidation of A+V-di substituted hydroxylamines.5 9 Practical and reliable methods for the oxidation of more easily available secondary amines have become available only recently.10 11 12 13. These include reactions with stoichiometric oxidants not readily available, such as dimethyldioxirane10 or A-phenylsulfonyl-C-phenyloxaziridine,11 and oxidations with hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by Na2W044 12 or Se02.13 All these methods suffer from limitations in scope and substrate tolerance. For example, oxidations with dimethyldioxirane seem to be limited to arylmethanamines and the above mentioned catalytic oxidations have been reported (and we have experienced as well) to give... 

Sheldon et al. have combined a KR catalyzed by CALB with a racemization catalyzed by a Ru(II) complex in combination with TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpi-peridine 1-oxyl free radical) [28]. They proposed that racemization involved initial ruthenium-catalyzed oxidation of the alcohol to the corresponding ketone, with TEMPO acting as a stoichiometric oxidant. The ketone was then reduced to racemic alcohol by ruthenium hydrides, which were proposed to be formed under the reaction conditions. Under these conditions, they obtained 76% yield of enantiopure 1-phenylethanol acetate at 70° after 48 hours. 

A catalytic version of the coupling was also developed, by using 10 mol % of CuCl2 and 20 mol % of sparteine 1 (silver chloride was used as a stoichiometric oxidant to regenerate the copper (II) oxidant). This catalytic system was applied to the asymmetric cross-coupling leading to 101 in a 41% yield and 32% ee. 

Numerous organic syntheses are based on stoichiometric oxidations of hydrocarbons with sodium dichromate and potassium permanganate, or on hydrogenations with alkali metals, borohydrides or metallic zinc. In addition, there are reactions... 

The bis amido complex [Au(bipy)(NHC6H4N02-4)2][Pp6] (43) has been similarly obtained by reaction of 40 with p-nitroaniline in acetone solution (Equation 2.14 in Scheme 2.6) [45b]. Complex 40 promotes the stoichiometric oxidation of various amines different from p-nitroaniline. Azotoluene is the main organic product of the... 

An intere.sting example in the context of waste minimization is the manufacture of the vitamin K intermediate, menadione. Traditionally it was produced by stoichiometric oxidation of 2-methylnaphthalene with chromium trioxide (Eqn. (8)), which generates 18 kg of solid, chromium containing waste per kg of menadione. Catalytic alternatives have been reported, but selectivities tend to be rather low owing to competing oxidation of the second aromatic ring (the. selectivity in the classical process is only 50-60%). The best results were obtained with a heteropolyanion as catalyst and O2 as the oxidant (Kozhevnikov, 1993). 

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