Synfacts 2008(12): 1350-1350  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1083556
Polymer-Supported Synthesis
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Au/PCPs-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols

Contributor(s): Yasuhiro Uozumi, Yoichi M. A. Yamada, Chung Keun Jin
T. Ishida, M. Nagaoka, T. Akita, M. Haruta*
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Osaka, Japan
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Publication History

Publication Date:
20 November 2008 (online)

Significance

The aerobic oxidation of alcohols was performed with deposited gold clusters on porous coordination polymers (PCPs) such as MOF-5, Al-MIL53, CPL-1, CPL-2 and Cu-BTC in MeOH. Thus, the oxidation of benzyl alcohol (1) was carried out in methanol with Au/MOF-5 and K2CO3 under O2 to give methyl benzoate (2) in 91% yield. The oxidation of 1-phenylethanol (3) with Au/MOF-5 under similar conditions gave aceto­phenone (4) in 79% yield.