A highly efficient manganese-catalysed hydroperoxidation of carbon–carbon double bonds of enynes as well as styrene derivatives using N-hydroxyphthalimide, N-hydroxybenzotriazole or N-hydroxysuccinimide was developed.

A novel aerobic manganese-catalyzed oxophosphorylation reaction of carbon-carbon double bonds of styrene derivatives and vinyl ethers using diethyl H-phosphonates was developed. This direct transformation of alkenes to β-ketophosphonate readily proceeded at room temperature via the direct incorporation of molecular oxygen present in air (open flask).

We developed a route for the tris(mono-ferrocene-functionalised β-diketonato) manganese(iii)-complex catalysed diastereoselective oxygenative aminoperoxidation of unactivated alkenes using molecular oxygen in air.