Jiang Bi, Feng Yuee, Ison Elon A
Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, 2620 Yarbrough Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8204, USA.
J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Nov 5;130(44):14462-4. doi: 10.1021/ja8049595. Epub 2008 Oct 9.
The commercially available catalysts [(Cp*IrCl2)2] is employed with O2 as the terminal oxidant in the presence of catalytic amounts of Et3N for the aerobic oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols. A new mechanism for the Ir-catalyzed aerobic oxidation is also presented that suggests that the transition metal maintains its +3 oxidation state throughout the entire catalytic cycle.