Carbon Materials as Catalytic Tools for Oxidative Dehydrogenations and Couplings in Liquid Phase

Carbocatalysis is a heterogeneous metal-free catalytic technique of high potential for current and future synthetic processes. Carbocatalysts entail heterogeneous materials based on sp2/sp3 interconnected carbons decorated with oxygen functional groups, defects, and other heteroatom dopants. In this short review, we cover a wide range of different carbocatalyzed oxidative dehydrogenation reactions, with particular emphasis on liquid-phase transformations that are relevant for synthetic organic chemists. 1 Introduction 2 Structures of Catalytic Carbon Materials 3 Oxidative Aromatizations with Activated Carbon 4 Oxidative Dehydrogenation CH–CH Couplings 5 Oxidative Dehydrogenation Coupling of Benzyl Amines 6 Oxidations of Alcohols 7 Other Oxidative Transformations by Heteroatom-Doped Carbon Materials 8 Asphaltene Oxide 9 Conclusions and Outlook