Hydrocarbon oxidations catalyzed by iron coordination complexes containing a halogenated ligand
AssigneeSun Refining and Marketing Company
InventorsPaul E. Ellis, Jr., James E. Lyons, Harry K. Myers, Jr.
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Abstract
Hydrocarbons, and particularly lower molecular weight alkanes and cycloalkanes, may readily be oxidized with air or O.sub.2 to form such products as alcohols, ketones, and the like selectively high yields when there is employed as the catalyst a coordination complex containing an iron center and a halogenated ligand having the structure ##STR1## where Fe is iron; " .circle. " is a ligand; X is a halogen substituent of the ligand; and A is an anion.
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In a process in which an alkane is selectively oxidized by contact with air or oxygen in the presence of an iron coordination complex catayst, the improvement which comprises introducing halogen into said coordination complex.
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