Remarkable increase in the rate of the catalytic epoxidation of electron deficient styrenes through the addition of Sc(OTf)3 to the MnTMTACN catalyst

• DOI: 10.1039/c7cc09698d
• Publication Date: 2018-01-17T17:03:53Z
• Authors: Aneta Nodzewska; Michael Watkinson
• Keywords: QD; 01 natural sciences; 0104 chemical sciences

The effect of Lewis acids on the catalytic activity [Mn2(μ-O)3(TMTACN)2](PF6)2 in epoxidation styrenes using hydrogen peroxide as oxidant has shown that addition Sc(OTf)3 at low loading results a very significant increase efficiency catalyst and reduction reaction time to only 3 minutes most cases.