Benefiting from the impressive increase in fundamental knowledge, the last 20 years have
shown a continuous burst of new ideas and consequently a plethora of new catalytic …

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 …

In industries and academic laboratories, several late transition metal-catalyzed prerequisite
reactions are widely performed during single and multistep synthesis. However, besides the …

Oriented external electric fields (OEEFs) as' smart reagents' are no longer a theoretical
dream. Here, we discuss the wide-ranging potential of using OEEFs to catalyse and control …

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 …

Since our initial report in 1976, the oxygen rebound mechanism has become the consensus
mechanistic feature for an expanding variety of enzymatic C–H functionalization reactions …

Designing catalytic approaches to deliberate and selective C–H activation was listed by
Bergman among the “Holy Grails” of synthetic chemistry in 1995, and continues to be a hot …

Recent work has exploited the ability of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) to isolate Fe sites
that mimic the structures of sites in enzymes that catalyze selective oxidations at low …

This paper presents an accelerated ferrate (VI)(FeVIO42–, FeVI) oxidation of contaminants
in 30 s by adding one-electron and two-electron transfer reductants (R (1) and R (2)). An …

There are mechanistic dichotomies with regard to the formation, electronic structures and
reaction mechanisms of metal–oxygen intermediates, since these metal–oxygen species …