[Co3(PDMT)Cl6] complex, in which PDMT is N,N′,N″-tris(2-pyrimidinyl)dimethylentriamine was prepared in cyclohexanol under hydrothermal condition. At first, the crystal structure of PDMT was solved based on the Rietveld method by using laboratory X-ray powder diffraction data. The molecular geometry of the ligand and complex were optimized by B3LYP method. In order to heterogenize the prepared complex, it was immobilized on the modified Fe3O4 nanoparticles with (3-aminopropyl)trimethoxysilane (APTMS). The prepared compound designated as Fe3O4@SiO2-2@APTMS@[Co3(PDMT)Cl6] was found to successfully catalyze the epoxidation of cyclooctene, styrene, cyclohexene, trans-stilbene as well as oxidation of fluorene, diphenylmethane, ethylbenzene, adamantane, cyclohexane, cyclooctane and norbornene with TBHP as oxidant with 25–100% conversions and 18–100% selectivities. Ligand, complex and Fe3O4@SiO2-2@APTMS@[Co3(PDMT)Cl6] were characterized by FT-IR, TEM, XRD, Mass, UV–Vis, DSC-TGA, NMR, GC and GC–Mass techniques.

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