Issue 31, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Chemical and photochemical oxidation of organic substrates by ruthenium aqua complexes with water as an oxygen source†

Fei Li,*a   Miao Yu,a   Yi Jiang,a   Fang Huang,a   Yanqing Li,a   Biaobiao Zhanga  and  Licheng Sun*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), DUT-KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian 116024, China
E-mail: lifei@dlut.edu.cn
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Tel: +86 46 84986247

b Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: lichengs@kth.se

Abstract

Two ruthenium aqua complexes were shown to be effective catalysts in chemical and photochemical oxidation of hydrocarbons. A remarkable activity (up to 90% yield and 100% selectivity) was performed in conversion of sulfide to sulfoxide by homogeneous photooxidation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC12558C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 May 2011
Accepted
22 Jun 2011
First published
07 Jul 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 8949-8951

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Chemical and photochemical oxidation of organic substrates by ruthenium aqua complexes with water as an oxygen source

F. Li, M. Yu, Y. Jiang, F. Huang, Y. Li, B. Zhang and L. Sun, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 8949 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC12558C

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