Hydroquinone is readily oxidized by a (salen)ruthenium(VI) nitrido complex in the presence of pyridine to give benzoquinone. Experimental and computational studies suggest that the reaction occurs via a novel mechanism that involves an initial electrophilic attack at the aromatic ring of the hydroquinone by the nitrido ligand.
J. Xie, P. Lo, W. W. Y. Lam, W. Man, L. Ma, S. Yiu, K. Lau and T. Lau, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 11430 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC06231H
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