Aerobic oxidation of thiols to disulfides using iron metal-organic frameworks as solid redox catalysts

Amarajothi Dhakshinamoorthy; Mercedes Alvaro; Hermenegildo Garcia

doi:10.1039/c0cc02210a

Aerobic oxidation of thiols to disulfides using iron metal-organic frameworks as solid redox catalysts

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Sep 21;46(35):6476-8. doi: 10.1039/c0cc02210a. Epub 2010 Aug 11.

Authors

Amarajothi Dhakshinamoorthy¹, Mercedes Alvaro, Hermenegildo Garcia

Affiliation

¹ Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Química CSIC-UPV and Departamento de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Av. De los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.

PMID: 20714572
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc02210a

Abstract

Aerobic oxidation of thiols to disulfides has been carried out using iron metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as solid redox catalysts with very high yield and selectivity in acetonitrile under mild reaction conditions.