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Cover Feature: Iron Triflate Salts as Highly Active Catalysts for the Solvent‐Free Oxidation of Cyclohexane (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 24/2020)
Author(s) -
Payard PierreAdrien,
Zheng YuTing,
Zhou WenJuan,
Khrouz Lhoussain,
Bonneviot Laurent,
Wischert Raphael,
Grimaud Laurence,
PeraTitus Marc
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european journal of organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1099-0690
pISSN - 1434-193X
DOI - 10.1002/ejoc.202000800
Subject(s) - trifluoromethanesulfonate , chemistry , cyclohexanone , cyclohexane , cyclohexanol , catalysis , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , medicinal chemistry
The Cover Feature shows the war god Mars, associated to iron in the alchemical tradition, blessing iron triflate (FeOTf 3 ) while this later is catalyzing the direct oxidation of cyclohexane to KA oil (cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone). With initial turnover frequencies higher than 10,000 h‐1, iron triflate proved order of magnitude more active than previously described catalysts for this billion‐tonnage industrial process. The structure of the iron complexes under the reaction conditions was studied by combining electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and DFT calculations. More information can be found in the Full Paper by W.‐J. Zhou, M. Pera‐Titus et al.