A Radical Mechanism for the Vanadium-Catalyzed Deoxydehydration of Glycols

…, M Castiñeira Reis, R Sanz…

Index: Garcia, Nuria; Garcia-Garcia, Patricia; Fernandez-Rodriguez, Manuel A.; Garcia, Daniel; Pedrosa, Maria R.; Arnaiz, Francisco J.; Sanz, Roberto Green Chemistry, 2013 , vol. 15, # 4 p. 999 - 1005

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Abstract

We propose a novel mechanism for the deoxydehydration (DODH) reaction of glycols catalyzed by a [Bu4N][VO2 (dipic)] complex (dipic= pyridine-2, 6-dicarboxylate) using triphenylphosphine as a reducing agent. Using density functional theory, we have confirmed