The Mechanism of Cumene Peroxidation Catalyzed by Cobalt(Ⅱ)-Chelated Copolymer

1Introduction The functionalised polymers, especially for chelating polymer, have been employed to considerable effects in organic synthesis for several decades. The use of polymer groups as ligands permits the ligand surroundings to be varied and regulation of the catalytic properties of the complexes because of the flexibility of the polymer chains, their ability to adopt various conformations, and the possibility of creating various spatial distributions of metal centers immobilized on the polymer chains[1,2]. In our recently studies[3-5], the chelating copolymer with imino-diacetic acid chelating group in the polymer side chain was manufactured, and which can increase effectively amount of the chelating group within the polymer. Meanwhile, the high catalysis performance in organic synthesis had also been proved via benzaldehyde and cumene peroxidation. For cumene peroxidation,it is hardly to find such a simple catalyst with high conversion and selectivity due to hydroperoxide decomposition by a radical mechanism. The cumene peroxidation by catalyst system and its reaction mechanism as well as the kinetic study are popularly investigated object for many researchers[6-9]. However, the reaction mechanism still does not clear owing to the by-products will be produced following the different catalysts used.