Sustainable vanadium-catalyzed oxidation of organic substrates with H2O2

Metal catalyzed reactions are a powerful tool to design new chemical synthetic processes according to Green Chemistry principles, such as pollution prevention, atom economy, catalysis and the use of safer solvents and chemicals. The selection of the metal is particularly important to plan relevant and applicable processes: in particular, Vanadium is a good choice because it is cheap, naturally abundant and relatively non-toxic. Moreover, its...