A Green Process for Oxidation of <i>p</i>-Nitrotoluene Catalyzed by Metalloporphyrins under Mild Conditions
作者:Lanzhi Wang、Yuanbin She、Rugang Zhong、Hongbing Ji、Yanhui Zhang、Xufeng Song
DOI:10.1021/op060056z
日期:2006.7.1
A novel synthetic technology of p-nitrobenzoic acid has been investigated with dioxygen by using metalloporphyrins RTPP-(MCl)-Cl-III (M = Fe, Co, Mn) as biomimetic catalysts. Oxidation of p-nitrotoluene to p-nitrobenzoic acid under 2.0 MPa of O-2 in the presence of a microamount of metalloporphyrins (RTPP-(MCl)-Cl-III) at 55 degrees C was achieved with the highest ( up to 90.4%) yield. Further research results show that the catalytic activities were relative to the nature of the substituted groups and the central metal ions of metalloporphyrins. For the metalloporphyrins with the same center metal ions, the greater the electron-withdrawing degree of groups in the porphyrin ring, the higher the catalytic activities of the metalloporphyrins. The catalytic activities for metalloporphyrins with different center metal ions followed the order RTPPMn Cl-III > RTPP (FeCl)-Cl-III > RTPP (CoCl)-Cl-III.
Aerobic oxidation of p-xylene over metalloporphyrin and cobalt acetate: Their synergy and mechanism
The aerobic liquid-phase oxidation of p-xylene (PX) over metalloporphyrin and Co(OAc)(2) was studied, and the co-catalysis between metalloporphyrin and Co(OAc)(2) for the oxidation of PX was discovered for the first time. The results showed that both the PX conversion and terephthalic acid yield could be increased significantly despite the fact that only a minute amount of metalloporphyrin was added to the reaction mixture in addition to the Co(OAc)(2) catalyst. The effects of the structure of metalloporphyrin and reaction conditions such as temperature, air pressure and catalyst concentration on the overall reaction performance were also studied. A possible mechanism for the observed synergy between metalloporphyrin and Co(OAc)(2) as co-catalysts for the aerobic liquid-phase oxidation of PX was proposed based on some experimental observations. The results suggested that the PX oxidation was improved because of the acceleration of the chain initiation of PX oxidation by metalloporphyrin, and the acceleration of the chain initiation itself was due to the ease of peroxide formation over metalloporphyrin. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.