Patent ID: 8263774

Claim:
A method of catalytically oxidizing an alkene, comprising: a) exposing an alkene to a quinoline catalyst complex in the presence of a mediation compound to form a ketone, said quinoline catalyst complex including a coordination center complexed with a quinoline compound having the formula where one of X 1 and X 2 is an N and the other is C and one of R1, R2 and R3 is Z wherein Z is an oxazoline having the formula such that when X 1 is N R2 is Z and R1 is absent, and when X 2 is N either R1 or R3 is Z and R2 is absent, and R1 and R3 through R12 are independently H or a pendant moiety which does not interfere with coordination of either N in the quinoline compound with the coordination center.