A planar binuclear cobalt(ii) phthalocyanine as a highly efficient catalyst for the oxidation of a mercaptan.

Sergey G Makarov Sergey Yu KetkovDieter Wöhrle

Published in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2020)

This paper reports on a binuclear Co(ii)Pc which exhibits a previously unknown extremely high catalytic activity for the oxidation of a thiol to the corresponding disulfide. The high activity is explained by an electronic contact between the two Co centres in the complex.

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