Effective bromo and chloro peroxidation catalysed by tungsten(vi) amino triphenolate complexes

Abstract

Amino triphenolate tungsten(VI) complexes have been prepared and they proved to be efficient catalysts in haloperoxidation reactions using hydrogen peroxide as a terminal oxidant and inorganic sources of halides. In particular, interesting results have been obtained in the challenging chloroperoxidation reactivity (catalyst loading down to 0.05% with TONs up to 900). A comparison among three different metal complexes bearing the same ligand (vanadium(V), molybdenum(VI) and tungsten(VI)) showed much better performances of the last complex both on bromo and chloro peroxidations.