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2.3 Selective liquid‐phase oxidation reactions<br />

O OH<br />

O<br />

Cu/Al2O3 Cu/Al2O3 N 2<br />

Scheme 2‐4: Anaerobic oxidation/ isomerization of carveol over Cu/Al2O3 [101].<br />

“external” hydrogen acceptor, the selectivity could be tuned to the dehydrogenated product.<br />

Primary benzylic alcohols reacted slowly (benzyl alcohol 51.5% conversion (20 h); cyclohexanol 99%<br />

conversion (3h)) [100] in contrast to aerobic alcohol oxidation over Au catalysts where similar or<br />

higher reaction rates were often observed for benzylic alcohols (Figure 2‐8) [98, 109, 110]. While in<br />

this report primary alcohols exhibited low reactivity, Cu supported on basic supports, i.e. MgO (entry<br />

4) [51] and La2O3 (entry 5) [53] were suitable for primary aliphatic alcohols like 1‐octanol at high<br />

reaction temperatures (150 °C), also with styrene as hydrogen acceptor. Both Cu catalysts were<br />

stable against leaching. Cu was fully reduced in these studies.<br />

Figure 2‐8: Different reactivities of alcohols on gold [98] and copper [100] catalysts.<br />

The hydrogen transfer principle offers interesting reaction routes. Copper‐aluminum<br />

hydrotalcite was used as a catalyst for the amination of primary alcohols (Scheme 2‐5) which<br />

proceeds via the imine (Table 2‐1, entry 6) [102]. K2CO3 as a base was necessary under the harsh<br />

reaction conditions (160 °C).<br />

Ph<br />

Scheme 2‐5: Reaction scheme for the amination of primary alcohols [102]. Note that the proposed imine was<br />

not observed as an intermediate.<br />

21<br />

2 ,N 2<br />

Cu/Al O<br />

2 3 + styrene Au/Cu Mg Al O + O<br />

5 1 2 x 2<br />

4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0<br />

OH + Ph NH2 TOF (h -1 )<br />

CuAl-HT/ K 2CO 3<br />

160 °C<br />

Ph O +<br />

( ) 4<br />

OH<br />

OH<br />

OH<br />

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160<br />

Ph NH + H<br />

2<br />

2 Ph N<br />

TOF (h -1 )<br />

+ H 2<br />

Ph<br />

Ph N H<br />

Ph

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