Hydrocarbon oxidations catalyzed by iron coordination complexes containing a halogenated ligand.

摘要

Hydrocarbons, and particularly lower molecular weight alkanes and cycloalkanes, may readily be oxidized with air or O2 to form such products as alcohols, ketones, and the like selectively in high yields when there is employed as the catalyst a coordination complex containing an iron center and a halogenated ligand having the structure where Fe is iron; is a ligand; X is a halogen substituent of the ligand; and A is an anion.