Oxidation of substrates having labile hydrogens by superoxide in the presence of phosgene dimer

Efficient Heterogeneous Oxidation of Alkylarenes with Molecular Oxygen

[reaction: see text] Ru(OH)x/Al2O3 efficiently catalyzes the heterogeneous aerobic oxygenation or oxidative dehydrogenation of alkylarenes to give the corresponding oxygenated or dehydrogenated products. Catalyst/product separation is very easy, and the recovered catalyst is reusable with retention of the high catalytic performance.

Base liberation from nucleotides by superoxide and intramolecular enhancement effect of phosphate group

The reaction of nucleotides with superoxide gave the corresponding nucleobases in good yield. The base-release reaction of nucleotides due to superoxide was examined and compared to that of nucleosides. Hence, the phosphate moiety greatly enhances the yields, in particular those of adenine from adenosine monophosphates. Superoxide in combination with the phosphate moiety has been revealed to be more active than superoxide alone. The phosphate peroxy radical, generated in situ from superoxide and phosphate, seems to be the species responsible for the formation of the free bases.