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| Amino acids offer a very attractive ligand precursor because of the available variety of side-chains and inexpensive resolved chiral centers. These ligand systems are also potentially more directly analogous to biological copper(II)-containing metalloenzymes such as galactose oxidase due to their biologically relevant ligating groups. Our current research is directed toward the development of a copper(II)-based oxidation catalyst that can be incorporated into a porous metal-organic framework (pMOF). These pMOF catalysts would offer the advantages of some metal- and/or ligand-based tunability of the system while providing a heterogeneous catalyst to facilitate product recovery and cleanup. This work describes copper(II) complexes of bis-(amido acid) ligands and their initial use in the oxidation of veratryl alcohol (3,4-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol) to the corresponding aldehyde using dioxygen as the formal oxidant. |
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Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Inorganic Chemistry
2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, April 7, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Hall A, Poster
Division of Chemical Education |