文摘
A radical mechanism of hydrocarbon oxidations with the environmentally friendly and cheap homogeneous nontransition metal system [Al(Hb>2b>O)b>6b>]3+/Hb>2b>Ob>2b>/MeCN鈭扝b>2b>O was proposed for the first time on the basis of DFT calculations. A dramatic activation of Hb>2b>Ob>2b> toward homolysis in the key intermediate [Al(Hb>2b>O)b>4b>(OOH)(Hb>2b>Ob>2b>)]2+ due to the presence of the easily oxidizable OOH coligand provides, without a change of metal oxidation state, the generation of HO鈥?/sup> radicals, which then oxidize hydrocarbons. Nonradical mechanisms of the olefin epoxidation with the same catalytic system were also investigated.