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Title: A common heterolytic mechanism for reactions of iodosobenzenes, peracids, hydroperoxides, and hydrogen peroxide with iron(III) porphyrins

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Chemical Society; (USA)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00202a049· OSTI ID:6707203
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  1. Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla (USA)

The isolation of high-valent iron porphyrin intermediates, kinetic studies, and product isolations have demonstrated that the principal reaction of iron(III) porphyrins with iodosobenzenes and peracids is a two-electron oxidation to the iron(IV) radical cation (oxene). It is clear that the Fe(IV) and Fe(III) species are readily obtainable by electron-transfer reactions. However, production of the oxene Fe{sup +}=O through the endothermic reversal of such electron transfers is highly unlikely. Therefore the identification of products exclusively derived from the oxene should serve as an indication of heterolytic cleavage in the first step. We submit demonstrations of the presence of Fe{sup +}=O. We have found that the epoxidation of norbornene by use of the oxene produces a mixture of products which, is at once unlike that from any other epoxidation process and specific for the particular metalloporphyrin catalyst.

OSTI ID:
6707203
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Chemical Society; (USA), Vol. 111:20; ISSN 0002-7863
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English