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Sn-MCM-41--a heterogeneous selective catalyst for the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation with hydrogen peroxide
A Corma1, M T Navarro, L Nemeth
1Instituto de Tecnología Química, UPV-CSIC, Avda. de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain. acorma@itq.upv.es
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 21, 2002
Abstract:
A new heterogeneous catalyst, Sn-MCM-41, is described for the Baeyer-Villiger reaction with hydrogen peroxide which selectively activates the carbonyl function for the nucleophilic attack by the oxidant, with high chemoselectivities when double bonds are present in the molecule.