PMID- 33908934 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20210504 LR - 20210504 IS - 1477-9234 (Electronic) IS - 1477-9226 (Linking) VI - 50 IP - 16 DP - 2021 Apr 28 TI - Oxidative degradation of toxic organic pollutants by water soluble nonheme iron(iv)-oxo complexes of polydentate nitrogen donor ligands. PG - 5590-5597 LID - 10.1039/d0dt04421k [doi] AB - The ability of four mononuclear nonheme iron(iv)-oxo complexes supported by polydentate nitrogen donor ligands to degrade organic pollutants has been investigated. The water soluble iron(ii) complexes upon treatment with ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) in aqueous solution are converted into the corresponding iron(iv)-oxo complexes. The hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) ability of iron(iv)-oxo species has been exploited for the oxidation of halogenated phenols and other toxic pollutants with weak X-H (X = C, O, S, etc.) bonds. The iron-oxo oxidants can oxidize chloro- and fluorophenols with moderate to high yields under stoichiometric as well as catalytic conditions. Furthermore, these oxidants perform selective oxidative degradation of several persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as bisphenol A, nonylphenol, 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) and gammaxene. This work demonstrates the utility of water soluble iron(iv)-oxo complexes as potential catalysts for the oxidative degradation of a wide range of toxic pollutants, and these oxidants could be considered as an alternative to conventional oxidation methods. FAU - Munshi, Sandip AU - Munshi S AD - School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A&2B Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India. ictkp@iacs.res.in. FAU - Jana, Rahul Dev AU - Jana RD FAU - Paine, Tapan Kanti AU - Paine TK LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210407 PL - England TA - Dalton Trans JT - Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) JID - 101176026 SB - IM EDAT- 2021/04/29 06:00 MHDA- 2021/04/29 06:01 CRDT- 2021/04/28 12:16 PHST- 2021/04/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/04/29 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/04/28 12:16 [entrez] AID - 10.1039/d0dt04421k [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Dalton Trans. 2021 Apr 28;50(16):5590-5597. doi: 10.1039/d0dt04421k. Epub 2021 Apr 7.