A longstanding research goal has been to understand the nature and role of copper–oxygen
intermediates within copper-containing enzymes and abiological catalysts. Synthetic …

Lignocellulosic biomass has enormous potential to contribute to worldwide energy,
chemical, and material demands in a renewable, sustainable manner. In the United States …

Due to environmentally friendly operation and on-site productivity, electrocatalytic singlet
oxygen (1O2) production via O2 gas is of immense interest in environment purification …

On the basis of its generally accessible I/II redox couple and bioavailability, copper plays a
wide variety of roles in nature that mostly involve electron transfer (ET), O 2 binding …

Copper is one of the most abundant and less toxic transition metals. Nature takes advantage
of the bioavailability and rich redox chemistry of Cu to carry out oxygenase and oxidase …

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

The rational design of well-defined, first-row transition metal complexes that can activate
dioxygen has been a challenging goal for the synthetic inorganic chemist. The activation of …

Heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) are terminal enzymes on the mitochondrial or bacterial
respiratory electron transport chain, which utilize a unique heterobinuclear active site to …

Conspectus In this Account, we overview and highlight synthetic bioinorganic chemistry
focused on initial adducts formed from the reaction of reduced ligand–copper (I) …

Nature uses dioxygen as a key oxidant in the transformation of biomolecules. Among the
enzymes that are utilized for these reactions are copper-containing metalloenzymes, which …