Oxo- and oxoperoxo-molybdenum(VI) complexes with aryl hydroxamates: synthesis, structure, and catalytic uses in highly efficient, selective, and ecologically benign peroxidic epoxidation of olefins

Maiti, Swarup K. ; Abdul Malik, K. M. ; Gupta, Shalabh ; Chakraborty, Santu ; Ganguli, Ashok K. ; Mukherjee, Alok K. ; Bhattacharyya, Ramgopal (2006) Oxo- and oxoperoxo-molybdenum(VI) complexes with aryl hydroxamates: synthesis, structure, and catalytic uses in highly efficient, selective, and ecologically benign peroxidic epoxidation of olefins Inorganic Chemistry, 45 (24). pp. 9843-9857. ISSN 0020-1669

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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic0607235

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Abstract

A solution obtained by dissolving MoO3 in H2O2 reacts separately with secondary hydroxamic acids (viz., N-benzoyl N-phenyl hydroxamic acid (BPHAH), N-benzoyl N-ortho-, -meta-, -para-tolyl hydroxamic acids, (BOTHAH, BMTHAH, and BPTHAH, respectively), and N-cinnamoyl N-phenyl hydroxamic acid (CPHAH) affording [MoO(O2)(BPHA)2] (1), [MoO(O2)(BOTHA)2] (2), [MoO(O2)(BMTHA)2] (3), [MoO(O2)(BPTHA)2] (4), and [Mo(O)2(CPHA)2] (5), respectively. The O and O2 are situated cis to each other in 2-4, but in each case, they are disordered and distributed over four sites. This disorder does not exist in the 6-coordinate cis dioxo complex 5, to which crude MoO(O2)(CPHA)2 (5') was converted during recrystallization. An aqueous molybdate solution readily reacts with all those hydroxamic acids producing [Mo(O)2(hydroxamate)2] (6). While 2, 3, and 4 possess a very distorted pentagonal bipyramidal structure, 5 has a distorted octahedral geometry. In the solid state, as well as in solution, 5 exists as two apparently enantiomerically related molecules differing in the orientation of the pendant phenyl rings. To emphasize that the formation and structural uniqueness of 5 compared to 1-4 is caused by the influence of the cinnamoyl residue, one compound of the 6 series, namely, [Mo(O)2(BPHA)2] (6A), was structurally characterized to prove directly that the special stereochemical properties of 5 rely on the special electronic structure of CPHA- ligand. Complexes 1-5, as well as 6, show high potential and selectivity as catalysts in the epoxidation of olefins at room temperature in the presence of NaHCO3 as a promoter and H2O2 as a terminal oxidant. A comparative epoxidation study has been performed to determine the relative efficiency of the catalysts. To make the epoxidation method cost effective, a study to optimize the use of H2O2 has also been performed. To obtain evidence in favor of our suggested mechanism to this homogeneous olefin → epoxide conversion, it was necessary to synthesize a peroxo-rich compound, namely, [MoO(O2)2BMTHA] (7), but the attempted synthesis culminated in the isolation of [MoO(O2)2(C6H5COO)] (8), obviously, via the hydrolysis of coordinated BMTHA.

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