Recent advances in well-defined, late transition metal complexes that make and/or break C–N, C–O and C–S bonds

AN Desnoyer, JA Love - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical transformations that result in either the formation or cleavage of carbon–
heteroatom bonds are among the most important processes in the chemical sciences …

Mechanism of Oxidative Activation of Fluorinated Aromatic Compounds by N‐Bridged Diiron‐Phthalocyanine: What Determines the Reactivity?

C Colomban, AH Tobing, G Mukherjee… - … A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The biodegradation of compounds with C− F bonds is challenging due to the fact that these
bonds are stronger than the C− H bond in methane. In this work, results on the …

Tetranuclear manganese models of the OEC displaying hydrogen bonding interactions: application to electrocatalytic water oxidation to hydrogen peroxide

Z Han, KT Horak, HB Lee, T Agapie - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Toward the development of structural and functional models of the oxygen evolving complex
(OEC) of photosystem II, we report the synthesis of site-differentiated tetranuclear …

N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed construction of 1, 3, 5-trisubstituted benzenes from bromoenals and α-cyano-β-methylenones

CL Zhang, S Ye - Organic Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Construction of 1,3,5-Trisubstituted Benzenes from
Bromoenals and α-Cyano-β-methylenones | Organic Letters ACS ACS Publications C&EN …

Defluorination of fluorophenols by a nonheme iron (IV)‐oxo species: observation of a new intermediate along the reaction

UK Bagha, R Yadav, T Mokkawes… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract High‐valent iron (IV)‐oxo intermediates are versatile oxidants in the
biotransformation of various substrates by metalloenzymes and catalyze essential reactions …

A thermodynamic model for redox-dependent binding of carbon monoxide at site-differentiated, high spin iron clusters

CH Arnett, MJ Chalkley, T Agapie - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Binding of N2 and CO by the FeMo-cofactor of nitrogenase depends on the redox level of
the cluster, but the extent to which pure redox chemistry perturbs the affinity of high spin iron …

A Terminal FeIII–Oxo in a Tetranuclear Cluster: Effects of Distal Metal Centers on Structure and Reactivity

CJ Reed, T Agapie - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 - ACS Publications
Tetranuclear Fe clusters have been synthesized bearing a terminal FeIII–oxo center
stabilized by hydrogen-bonding interactions from pendant (tert-butylamino) pyrazolate …

Aromatic C–F Hydroxylation by Nonheme Iron (IV)–Oxo Complexes: Structural, Spectroscopic, and Mechanistic Investigations

S Sahu, B Zhang, CJ Pollock, M Dürr… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The synthesis and reactivity of a series of mononuclear nonheme iron complexes that carry
out intramolecular aromatic C–F hydroxylation reactions is reported. The key intermediate …

Atomically Defined Nanopropeller Fe3Co6Se8(Ph2PNTol)6: Functional Model for the Electronic Metal–Support Interaction Effect and High Catalytic Activity for …

JA Kephart, BS Mitchell, A Chirila… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Atomically defined interfaces that maximize the density of active sites and harness the
electronic metal–support interaction are desirable to facilitate challenging multielectron …

Interplay of Electronic Cooperativity and Exchange Coupling in Regulating the Reactivity of Diiron (IV)‐oxo Complexes towards C− H and O− H Bond Activation

A Ansari, M Ansari, A Singha… - Chemistry–A European …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Activation of inert C− H bonds such as those of methane are extremely challenging for
chemists but in nature, the soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) enzyme readily …