Oxidation of silyl enolates was found to be smoothly catalyzed by [Cu(bpy)(BF4)2(H2O)2(bpy)]n (bpy = 4,4′-bipyridine) under molecular oxygen, and provided the corresponding α-hydroxy carbonyl compounds in high yield. The insoluble organic–inorganic hybrid polymer was readily recovered by centrifugation after the completion of reaction, and the recovered catalyst could be reused.
strategy for the encapsulation of magneticnanobeads was developed by using the in situ self-assembly of an organic-inorganichybrid polymer. The hybrid polymer of [Cu(bpy)(BF(4))(2)(H(2)O)(2)](bpy)}(n) (bpy=4,4'-bipyridine) was constructed on the surface of amino-functionalized magnetic beads and the resulting hybrid-polymer-encapsulated beads were utilized as catalysts for the oxidation of silyl enolates