Sustained catalytic homogenous oxo-transfer oxidation of alkanes. Interaction of alkyl hydroperoxides with transition metal-substituted polyoxometalates

Abstract

The oxo-transfer oxidation of alkanes by t-butyl hydroperoxide can be catalysed by particular transition metal-substituted heteropolytungstates; the product yields and the stabilities of these systems are higher than those of other homogenous catalytic alkane oxygenation systems reported in the literature.