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Cover Picture: Selective Oxidation of Alkyl‐Substituted Polyaromatics Using Ruthenium‐Ion‐Catalyzed Oxidation (Chem. Eur. J. 11/2015)
Author(s) -
Nowicka Ewa,
Sankar Meenakshisundaram,
Jenkins Robert L.,
Knight David W.,
Willock David J.,
Hutchings Graham J.,
Francisco Manuel,
Taylor Stuart H.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201590037
Subject(s) - ruthenium , alkyl , catalysis , alkylation , fullerene , chemistry , carbon fibers , materials science , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , composite number , composite material
A quantitative NMR protocol has been developed to study the ruthenium‐ion‐catalyzed oxidation of a range of alkylated polyaromatics, as reported by S. H. Taylor et al. in their Full Paper on page 4285 ff. RuO 4 acts as a very selective catalyst, targeting the oxidation of aromatic carbon in preference to aliphatic carbon in alkyl‐substituted polyaromatic hydrocarbons.