Water soluble palladium(II) complexes of bidentate diamine ligands, such as bathophenanthroline disulfonate, are stable, recyclable catalysts for the selective aerobic oxidation of terminal olefins to the corresponding alkan-2-ones in a biphasic liquid–liquid system.
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Brink et al. (1998) studied this question.