2019 年 77 巻 7 号 p. 696-705
Molecular oxygen is recognized as an ideal oxidant, because it is abundantly available, inexpensive, and environmentally benign. Despite the recent remarkable progress of catalytic oxidative dehydrogen reactions such as a transformation of hydroxy group into the corresponding carbonyl group using molecular oxygen as a terminal oxidant, catalytic methodologies for directly incorporating molecular oxygen into organic substrate remain a significant challenge in synthetic chemistry. In this article, we have summarized our recent efforts to use manganese complex as a catalyst for directly incorporating molecular oxygen in air (pure oxygen is not required) under ambient conditions into unactivated carbon-carbon double bond.