Abstract
Combinations of alkylated polyethylenimine and polyoxometalates yield water-soluble synzymes with hydrophobic regions that allowed the aqueous biphasic selective oxidation of very hydrophobic, water-insoluble substrates with hydrogen peroxide. With the alkylated PEI/{PO4[WO(O2)2]4}3- highly effective C-C bond cleavage of alkenes to aldheydes was observed. The synzymes have both tertiary and quaternary amine centers as shown by a combination of 15N-1H HMBC and XPS measurements. The existence of hydrophobic regions was concluded from the measurement of contact angles and a hypsochromic shift of a fluorescent probe.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 11762-11763 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Volume | 126 |
| Issue number | 38 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 29 Sep 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |