Patent ID: 6852893

Claim:
A process for catalytically oxidizing saturated or unsaturated substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbons, heterocycles, alcohols, ethers, ketones, aldehydes, amines or soot (substrate) to the corresponding hydroperoxide, alcohol, ketone, carboxylic acid or dicarboxylic acid, wherein the catalyst used is a compound of the formula I where R 1 , R 2 =H, aliphatic or aromatic alkoxy radical, carboxyl radical, alkoxy-carbonyl radical or hydrocarbon radical, each of which has 1 to 20 carbon atoms, SO 3 H, NH 2 , OH, F, Cl, Br, I and/or NO 2 where R 1 and R 2 are identical or different radicals, or R 1 and R 2 can be linked to one another via a covalent bond Q 1 , Q 2 =C, CH, N, CR 5 , identical or different in each case X, Z=C, S, CH 2 , identical or different in each case Y=O, OH k=0, 1, 2 l=0, 1, 2 m=1 to 3; R 5 : one of the meanings of R 1 is used in the presence of a free-radical initiator, the molar ratio of the catalyst to the hydrocarbon being between 10 −6 mol % and 2.5 mol %.