The oxidation of alcohols is a procedure that has been used in many different fields of chemistry for many uses, including both manufacturing processes and laboratory-scale experiments. Chromium (III) benzoquinone complexes can oxidize alcohols to aldehydes or ketones, and these complexes may be able to catalytically carry out the oxidation. The complexes may be made by preparing Cr(ClO4)2 and reacting it with substituted benzoquinones and nitrogen donor ligands. Those ligands could be bidentate or in this specific case, tetradentate ligands, meaning they will bind four donor atoms to a central atom in order to form a reduced coordination complex. Once the reduced form is produced, a reduction-oxidation reaction can be used to form the oxidized form. Many different methods were attempted to accomplish this, and the reactions and results will be reported.

Development of a synthetic method of the oxidation of [Cr(TMP)C6O6H2Cr(TMP)]2+

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