Keele Research Repository

In recent years, many supported manganese catalysts for the oxidative transformations of hydrocarbons by various terminal oxidants have been designed and tested. A vast range of inorganic (e.g. silica, carbon, zeolites), organic (e.g. polymers, dendrimers), and hybrid (e.g. polymeric phosphates, metal-organic frameworks) materials have been chosen to immobilise catalysts using various anchoring and embedding methods including covalent bonding, axial coordination and non-covalent interactions. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the applications of heterogenised manganese complexes with different nitrogen containing ligands, including porphyrins, salens and amines immobilized on inorganic or/and organic supports in the catalytic oxidation of alkanes and alkenes.