Oxidation of olefins using rhodium nitro complex
This patent describes a process for the oxidation of olefinically unsaturated substrates of the formula R-CH=CH-R' wherein R and R' are independently selected from members of the group consisting of H, alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, and halo-, cyano- and ether substituted alkyl,alkenyl, cycloalkyl and aryl, which comprises reacting, in the liquid phase and in the substantial absence of an additional Group VIII metal, the substrate with a rhodium nitro complex of the formula L/sub n/RhNO/sub 2/ wherein n is 4 or 5 and wherein L/sub n/ represents any combination of monodentate, bidentate, tridentate and tetradentate ligands such as to provide four or five bond sites, for a time sufficient to produce an oxidized product of the formula RCH/sub 2/C(O)R' and a reduced product of the formula L/sub n/RhNO.
- Assignee:
- Allied Corp., Morris Township, Morris County, NJ
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4612402
- OSTI ID:
- 5279350
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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400301* -- Organic Chemistry-- Chemical & Physicochemical Properties-- (-1987)
ALKENES
ALKYL RADICALS
ARYL RADICALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
ELEMENTS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN
LIGANDS
NONMETALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDATION
RADICALS
REFRACTORY METAL COMPOUNDS
RHODIUM COMPOUNDS
SUBSTRATES
TIME DEPENDENCE
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS