Strict Reactivity Control of High-Valent Manganese-Oxo Complexes

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23550086
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Inorganic chemistry
• Research Institution: Institute for Molecular Science
• Principal Investigator: KURAHASHI Takuya 分子科学研究所, 生命・錯体分子科学研究領域, 助教 (90353432)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 酸化反応 / 高原子価金属オキソ / サレン錯体 / ラジカル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Oxidation reactions are widely utilized for production of chemicals and degradation of pollutants and so on. Although in most cases, it is required to oxidize only a certain position in a molecule, it is not necessarily an easy task to strictly control the selectivity of oxidation reactions. Here, the author focused on a catalyst molecule that is utilized to promote oxidation reactions, and investigated the redox properties of the catalyst molecule. The present study has shown that redox reactions readily occur on the organic moiety of the catalyst, which was previously thought to be inert for redox reactions, in addition to the transition-metal ion.

Free Research Field

錯体化学