Chinese Chemical Letters

Novel cobalt (II) complexes of amino acids–Schiff bases catalyzed aerobic oxidation of various alcohols to ketones and aldehyde

SM Seyedi, R Sandaroos, GH Zohuri

Index: Seyedi, Seyed Mohammad; Sandaroos, Reza; Zohuri, Gholam Hossein Chinese Chemical Letters, 2010 , vol. 21, # 11 p. 1303 - 1306

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Abstract

Two cobalt (II) complexes 1 and 2 of Schiff bases derived from amino acids were synthesized and used for oxidation of benzyl alcohol with molecular oxygen at different conditions of pH, solvent, temperature and complex/alcohol molar ratio to optimize reaction conditions and to evaluate the catalytic efficiency of new cobalt Schiff base complexes. Under obtained optimum conditions, various alcohols were oxidized to corresponding ...