Urea, manganese complex

Dinuclear or polynuclear manganese complexes of salen-type ligands were also tested in the epoxidation of olefins with H2O2 as oxidant. Enantioselective epoxidation of several olefins with urea-H202 and a dinuclear Mn-salen type of complex has been reported by Kureshy and co-workers (130). Conversions of more than 99 % ee were obtained with chromenes and... 

The tetrasulfo-Pc complexes of a number of metals are made by the urea melt process by heating the powdered metal, or its acetate, with triammonium-4-sulfophthalate, urea, boric acid, and ammonium molybdate. The metals or metal compounds used are those of chromium (III), manganese(II), iron(II), iron(III), cobalt(II), and zinc(II). Selected synthetic examples of sulfo- and other derivatives of metal phthalocyanines are presented below. 

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. 

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