A mild, simple process for the effective aerobic oxidative deoximation of a wide range of ketoximes and aldoximes has been developed that utilizes Fe(NO3)3·9H2O as the single catalyst and molecular oxygen as the green oxidant. The environmentally benign protocol provides moderate to excellent yield and broad functional groups tolerance and is a valuable synthetic method for practical applications. According the relevant verification experiment, a plausible mechanism has been proposed.
Ran Ma,Cheng-Bin Huang,An-Hua Liu,Xue-Dong Li,Liang-Nian He
An environmentally benign CO2/glycol reversible acidic system was developed for the iron(III)-catalyzed aerobic oxidative iodination of electron-rich aromatics without the need for any conventional acid additive or organic solvent. Notably, moderate to high isolated yields (up to 97%) of the aryl iodides were attained with comparable regioselectivity when ferric nitrate nonahydrate was used as the catalyst with molecular iodine under 1 MPa of CO2.
The separation of aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons is one of the most challenging and energy-consuming operations in the petrochemical industry. In this study, a number of N -methylpyrrolidone (NMP)-based coordinated ionic liquids (ILs) with various metal salts were prepared and their separation performances were investigated. Among these coordinated ILs, NMP-0.1Fe(NO 3 ) 3 ·9H 2 O showed high selectivity and was used to separate toluene from n -heptane or cyclohexane. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy was used to verify that the synthesis of NMP-0.1Fe(NO 3 ) 3 ·9H 2 O was achieved. The toluene distribution coefficient and selectivity were 0.20 and greater than 70, respectively, for a 10 mol% toluene/ n -heptane system, and 0.20 and 23.5, respectively, for a 20 mol% toluene/cyclohexane system. Changing the extraction temperature had little effect on the separation performance. The effects of the solvent dosage, initial concentrations of system components, and regeneration times were also investigated. Experimental liquid–liquid equilibrium data for the studied ternary systems were correlated with the non-random two-liquid model. The results show that NMP-0.1Fe(NO 3 ) 3 ·9H 2 O has potential industrial applications.