The presence of diverse pollutants in water has been threating human health and aquatic
ecosystems on a global scale. For more than a century, chemical oxidation using strongly …

As a result of the adaptation of life to an aerobic environment, nature has evolved a panoply
of metalloproteins for oxidative metabolism and protection against reactive oxygen species …

We introduce density functional theory and review recent progress in its application to
transition metal chemistry. Topics covered include local, meta, hybrid, hybrid meta, and …

High-valent metal–oxo species with multiply-bonded M–O groups have been proposed as
key intermediates in many biological and abiological catalytic oxidation reactions. These …

Alkanes constitute the cheapest and most abundant feedstock for organic chemicals.
However, the redistribution of CsC and CsH bonds in hydrocarbons into more sophisticated …

The most fundamental concepts in chemistry are structure, energetics, reactivity and their
inter-relationships, which are indispensable for promoting chemistry into a rational science …

Utilization of O2 as an abundant and environmentally benign oxidant is of great interest in
the design of bioinspired synthetic catalytic oxidation systems. Metalloenzymes activate O2 …

Selective functionalization of unactivated C–H bonds, water oxidation, and dioxygen
reduction are extremely important reactions in the context of finding energy carriers and …

Conspectus Mononuclear nonheme iron enzymes generate high-valent iron (IV)-oxo
intermediates that effect metabolically important oxidative transformations in the catalytic …

In an era dominated by the utilization of hydrocarbon mixtures (ie, oil and natural gas) as
feedstocks for the chemical industry, the functionalization of CH bonds, particularly in a …