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Suraj K Gupta1, Joyanta Choudhury1
1Organometallics and Smart Materials Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal 462 066, India. joyanta@iiserb.ac.in.
Abstract:
A remote Ru(II)(terpy)2 unit incorporated in conjugation with the [NHC-Ru(II)(para-cymene)] catalytic site, acts as a "coordination booster" for enhancing the catalytic efficiency to achieve excellent performance in selective oxidative scission of various carbon-carbon multiple bonds to the corresponding aldehydes, ketones and diketones. Generation of an active catalyst via oxidative loss of para-cymene from the precatalyst was found to be accelerated by the "coordination booster" through the electronic effect.
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