A new µ3-oxo trinuclear ruthenium carboxylate catalytic system is reported which effects the air oxidation of alkanes under conditions that are much milder than possible with present commercial catalysts; the mechanism involves a radical chain process and the catalyst is proposed to initiate the reaction in addition to catalysing the hydroperoxide decomposition to ketone and alcohol.
S. Davis and R. S. Drago, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1990, 250 DOI: 10.1039/C39900000250
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