The thermodynamic and structural parameters of complexes formed by secondary and tertiary alcohols and hydroperoxides with carbonyls, carboxylates, and acetylacetonates of variable-valence metals were determined. The complexes of s and 3d elements with hydroperoxides have different structures.The controlling role of 3d-element carboxylates and acetylacetonates in oxidation of n-alkanes and cycloalkanes is manifested in the stage of catalytic decomposition of hydroperoxides and in competitive reactions of RO . 2 radicals with the catalyst, initial substrate, and intermediates formed in oxidation [1]. The difference in the stability and lability of the resulting complexes is the key factor responsible for the specific controlling effect of these catalysts.The aim of this study was to examine the reaction of transition metal carbonyls, carboxylates, and acetylacetonates with secondary and tertiary alcohols and hydroperoxides and to compare the catalytic activities of s and 3d elements in decomposition of tertiary hydroperoxides.
EXPERIMENTALThe objects of study (ligands) were 1-methylcyclohexyl hydroperoxide (1-MCHP), cyclohexyl hydroperoxide (CHP), cyclohexanol (CH), and 1-methyl-and 4-methylcyclohexanol (1-and 4-MCH). Maingroup and transition metal [Li(I), Co(II), Cr(III), Ni(II), Cu(II)] stearates and acetylacetonates, and also metal carbonyls Cr(CO) 6 and Mo(CO) 6 were used as complexing agents.The 1 H NMR spectra of hydroperoxides in CCl 4 and n-heptane (0.62532.0 M) were recorded on RYa-2310 and Tesla BS-497 spectrometers operating at 100 MHz in the temperature range from 350oC to 22oC; the 1 H NMR spectra of alcohols were taken at 15350oC.The broadening and shifts of signals in the 1 H NMR spectra of HO and HOO groups of alcohols and hydroperoxides dissolving the catalyst suggest the presence of labile paramagnetic complexes (Figs. 133). The position and linewidth of the NMR signals of hydroperoxide and alcohol molecules in complexes Fig. 1. Chemical shift d of HO and HOO groups in the 1 H NMR spectra of alcohols and hydroperoxides vs. their concentrations [ROH] and [ROOH] in heptane at (1, 1`) 320, (2, 2`, 4, 4`) 310, and (3, 3`) 23oC. Group: (1, 1`, 2, 2`) OOH in 1-MCHP, (3, 3`) OH in 1-MCH, and (4, 4`) OOH in CHP;(1`3 4`) in the presence of 2 0 10 !3 M Mo(CO) 6 . Fig. 2. Chemical shift d of the HOO group in the 1 H NMR spectra of CHP vs. its concentration [ROOH] in heptane at -20oC (1) in the absence of a catalyst and in the presence of 2 0 10 !2 M (2) Mo(CO) 6 and (3) Co(acac) 2 .