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A ruthenium porphyrin catalyst immobilized in a highly cross-linked polymer
1Institut de Chimie Minérale et Analytique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Organic Letters
|November 27, 2001
Abstract:
An immobilized Ru(meso-tetraarylporphyrin) complex was shown to be a very efficient catalyst for the epoxidation of olefins. In the presence of HBr, alcohols and even alkanes could be converted to the corresponding ketones. For the latter reactions the polymeric catalyst displayed a significantly enhanced activity when compared to that of the homogeneous version.[reaction: see text]