Volume 42, Issue 1 pp. 92-95
Communication

Activation of Nitrous Oxide and Selective Oxidation of Alcohols and Alkylarenes Catalyzed by the [PV2Mo10O40]5− Polyoxometalate Ion

Revital Ben-Daniel

Revital Ben-Daniel

Department of Organic Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science 76100 Rehovot, Israel, Fax: (+972) 8-934-4142

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Ronny Neumann

Ronny Neumann

Department of Organic Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science 76100 Rehovot, Israel, Fax: (+972) 8-934-4142

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First published: 14 January 2003
Citations: 77

This research was supported by the Basic Research Foundation administered by the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities and the Israeli Ministry of Science. Dr. Lev Weiner is thanked for the ESR measurements. R.N. is the Rebecca and Israel Sieff Professor of Organic Chemistry.

Graphical Abstract

A vanadium-substituted polyoxomolybdate ion ([PV2Mo10O40]5−, top right) can activate nitrous oxide to promote the highly selective catalytic oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to aldehydes and ketones, and the oxidation of various alkylaromatic substrates (see scheme).

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