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

Methane monooxygenases (MMOs) mediate the facile conversion of methane into methanol
in methanotrophic bacteria with high efficiency under ambient conditions. Because the …

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 …

Copper is an essential trace element in living systems, present in the parts per million
concentration range. It is a key cofactor in a diverse array of biological oxidation-reduction …

The reactions of Cu (I) complexes with O2 and the oxidative properties of the resulting
Cu/O2 complexes have attracted much interest during the past decades because of their …

Cu-SSZ-13 has been characterized by different spectroscopic techniques and compared
with Cu-ZSM-5 and Cu-β with similar Si/Al and Cu/Al ratios and prepared by the same ion …

1.1. Background Copper proteins that bind and/or activate dioxygen perform a variety of
critical biological functions. 1-3 These include O 2 transport (hemocyanin, Hc), 4 aromatic …

The critical review describes the known dicopper systems mediating the aromatic
hydroxylation of monophenolic substrates. Such systems are of interest as structural and …

Copper active sites play a major role in biological and abiological dioxygen activation.
Oxygen intermediates have been studied in detail for the proteins and enzymes involved in …