Volume 52, Issue 2 pp. 739-743
Communication

Dendritic Fluoroalcohols as Catalysts for Alkene Epoxidation with Hydrogen Peroxide

Prof. Dr. Albrecht Berkessel

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Prof. Dr. Albrecht Berkessel

Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Greinstrasse 4, 50939 Cologne (Germany) http://www.berkessel.de

Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Greinstrasse 4, 50939 Cologne (Germany) http://www.berkessel.deSearch for more papers by this author
Jan Krämer

Jan Krämer

Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Greinstrasse 4, 50939 Cologne (Germany) http://www.berkessel.de

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Florian Mummy

Dr. Florian Mummy

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustrasse 3, 14195 Berlin (Germany)

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Jörg-M. Neudörfl

Dr. Jörg-M. Neudörfl

Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Greinstrasse 4, 50939 Cologne (Germany) http://www.berkessel.de

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Prof. Dr. Rainer Haag

Prof. Dr. Rainer Haag

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustrasse 3, 14195 Berlin (Germany)

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First published: 21 November 2012
Citations: 54

Financial support by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie is gratefully acknowledged. J.K. thanks Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf, for a doctoral fellowship. A.B. acknowledges COST Membership (CM0905, Organocatalysis). R.H. would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Cluster of Excellence “Unifying Concepts in Catalysis”.

Graphical Abstract

Cooperativity is the key for mild catalytic epoxidation: The immobilization of fluoroalcohols on dendritic polyglycerol (by “click chemistry”) provides organocatalysts that can form multiple hydrogen bonds. The epoxidation of alkenes with aqueous hydrogen peroxide proceeds efficiently in the presence of dendritic fluoroalcohol catalysts. The supported catalysts can be separated by membrane filtration and reused.

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