Glycols and ethoxy– propoxy–alcohols are fundamental chemicals in industry, with annual productions of millions tons, still manufactured many cases corrosive unrecoverable catalysts such as KOH, amines BF3•OEt2. Here we show that commercially available, inexpensive, non–toxic, solid recyclable nanotitania catalyzes the hydration alkoxylation epoxides, water primary secondary alcohols but not ph...

mn(ii) salen complex immobilized on nano silicagel was prepared by incorporating mn(ii) salen complex into a nanosilica matrix and characterized by tga, xrd, atomic absorption spectroscopy and was successfully applied as catalyst for the oxidation of alcohols. oxidation of a series of alcohols in acetonitrile over immobilized mn(ii) salen complex using tetrabutylammonium peroxymonosulfate (tbao...

The enantioselective oxidation of secondary alcohols represents a valuable approach for the synthesis optically pure compounds. Flavoprotein oxidases can catalyse such selective transformations by merely using oxygen as electron acceptor. While many flavoprotein preferably act on primary alcohols, FAD-containing alcohol oxidase from Phanerochaete chrysosporium was found to be able perform kinet...