“…According to the reported results, the valence transformation of metal iron such as Mn III /Mn II (Yang et al, 2014;Fei et al, 2017;Gurrala et al, 2018), Co III /Co II (Zhou et al, 2015;Cordoba et al, 2017;Li et al, 2017), Cr III / Cr II (Thao et al, 2018) could catalyze the oxidation of alcohols. Especially, the transformation of Fe 3+ /Fe 2+ possessed high catalytic activity by initiating a series of electron transfer (Hu et al, 2016(Hu et al, , 2018Miao et al, 2016). Combined with above results, Fe 3+ could be regard as a catalyst and the electron transfer between of Fe 3+ and Fe 2+ would catalyze the oxidation process.…”