Abstract
Carbocatalysis is a heterogeneous metal-free catalytic technique of high potential for current and future synthetic processes. Carbocatalysts entail heterogeneous materials based on sp2/sp3 interconnected carbons decorated with oxygen functional groups, defects, and other heteroatom dopants. In this short review, we cover a wide range of different carbocatalyzed oxidative dehydrogenation reactions, with particular emphasis on liquid-phase transformations that are relevant for synthetic organic chemists.
1 Introduction
2 Structures of Catalytic Carbon Materials
3 Oxidative Aromatizations with Activated Carbon
4 Oxidative Dehydrogenation CH–CH Couplings
5 Oxidative Dehydrogenation Coupling of Benzyl Amines
6 Oxidations of Alcohols
7 Other Oxidative Transformations by Heteroatom-Doped Carbon Materials
8 Asphaltene Oxide
9 Conclusions and Outlook
Key words
carbocatalysis - oxidative dehydrogenation - aromatization - carbon–carbon coupling - carbon–heteroatom coupling
