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- Title
Electrochemical Epoxidation Catalyzed by Manganese Salen Complex and Carbonate with Boron-Doped Diamond Electrode.
- Authors
Roy, Pijush Kanti; Amanai, Keisuke; Shimizu, Ryosuke; Kodera, Masahito; Kurahashi, Takuya; Kitayama, Kenji; Hitomi, Yutaka
- Abstract
Epoxides are essential precursors for epoxy resins and other chemical products. In this study, we investigated whether electrochemically oxidizing carbonate ions could produce percarbonate to promote an epoxidation reaction in the presence of appropriate metal catalysts, although Tanaka and co-workers had already completed a separate study in which the electrochemical oxidation of chloride ions was used to produce hypochlorite ions for electrochemical epoxidation. We found that epoxides could be obtained from styrene derivatives in the presence of metal complexes, including manganese(III) and oxidovanadium(IV) porphyrin complexes and manganese salen complexes, using a boron-doped diamond as the anode. After considering various complexes as potential catalysts, we found that manganese salen complexes showed better performance in terms of epoxide yield. Furthermore, the substituent effect of the manganese salen complex was also investigated, and it was found that the highest epoxide yields were obtained when Jacobsen's catalyst was used. Although there is still room for improving the yields, this study has shown that the in situ electrochemical generation of percarbonate ions is a promising method for the electrochemical epoxidation of alkenes.
- Subjects
EPOXIDATION; DOPING agents (Chemistry); MANGANESE; CHLORIDE ions; STYRENE derivatives; METAL catalysts; MANGANESE porphyrins
- Publication
Molecules, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 4, p1797
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules28041797