Sharpless et al. have described,
while performing the molybdenum-catalyzed
epoxidation reaction of olefins using alkyl hydroperoxides, that the
molybdenum-oxo moiety is an active catalytic species. Thus, continuous
efforts have been made to synthesize molybdenum-oxo complexes of different
ligand environments. While plenty of such works on molybdenum porphyrins
are reported in the literature, related molybdenum corroles are very
less reported. The synthesis and characterization of two new oxo-molybdenum(V)-corrolato
complexes are described herein. Both the complexes have been fully
characterized by several spectroscopic techniques in conjunction with
single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The efficacy
of the oxo-molybdenum(V)-corrolato complexes for the catalytic epoxidation
reaction of olefins with the help of hydroperoxides has also been
explored. The catalytic application of oxo-molybdenum(V)-corrolato
complexes in the epoxidation reaction has not been reported earlier.
A mechanism has been proposed to explain the experimental findings.
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