Environmentally Sustainable Catalytic Asymmetric Oxidations

Catalysis plays a vital role in the chemical, petroleum, agriculture, polymer, electronics, pharmaceutical, and other industries. This book provides a comprehensive overview of existing catalyst systems for various types of catalyzed asymmetric oxidation processes exploiting "green" oxidants H2O2 and O2. In addition to traditional transition metal catalyzed oxidations, it also considers organocatalytic processes. The book discusses catalytically active sites and reaction mechanisms. It also considers the viability of some catalyst systems from industrial and green chemistry perspectives.

Konstantin P. Bryliakov was born in Yoshkar-Ola (USSR) in 1977 and graduated from Novosibirsk State University in 1999. He earned a Cand. Chem. Sci. (PhD) in chemical physics from the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (Novosibirsk) in 2001 under the direction of Professor E. P. Talsi. In 2008, Dr. Bryliakov was awarded a Dr. Chem. Sci. in catalysis from the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (Novosibirsk). Dr. Bryliakov is a leading research scientist at the Boreskov Institute. He has co-authored more than 90 papers, book chapters, and patents. His research interests include transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric oxidations, single-site olefin polymerizations, and mechanistic aspects of those transformations.

Introduction. Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Epoxidations. Manganese Systems. Iron and Ruthenium Systems. Titanium Systems. Systems Based on Other Metals. Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Sulfoxidations. Vanadium Systems. Titanium Systems. Iron Systems. Systems Based on Other Metals. Miscellaneous Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Oxidations. Cis-Dihydroxylations of Olefins. Baeyer-Villiger Oxidations. Oxidative Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Alcohols and Desymmetrization of Meso-Diols. Enantioselective Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of 2-Naphthols. Enantioselective C-H Oxidations. Organocatalytic Asymmetric Oxidations. Epoxidations. Miscellaneous Oxidations. Fe- and Mn-Based Synthetic Models of Non-Heme Oygenases: Stereospecific C-H Oxidations. Iron Systems. Manganese Systems. Active Species and Mechanisms of Non-Heme Fe- and Mn-Catalyzed Oxidations. Iron Systems. Manganese Systems. Industrial Perspective. General Remarks. Some Examples. Outlook.