Direct methane oxidation by copper-and iron-dependent methane monooxygenases

FJ Tucci, AC Rosenzweig - Chemical reviews, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to climate change and is
primarily regulated in Nature by methanotrophic bacteria, which consume methane gas as …

Applications of halogen-atom transfer (XAT) for the generation of carbon radicals in synthetic photochemistry and photocatalysis

F Juliá, T Constantin, D Leonori - Chemical Reviews, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
The halogen-atom transfer (XAT) is one of the most important and applied processes for the
generation of carbon radicals in synthetic chemistry. In this review, we summarize and …

Single atom catalysts for selective methane oxidation to oxygenates

P Kumar, TA Al-Attas, J Hu, MG Kibria - ACS nano, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Direct conversion of methane (CH4) to C1–2 liquid oxygenates is a captivating approach to
lock carbons in transportable value-added chemicals, while reducing global warming …

Oxidative addition of an alkyl halide to form a stable Cu (III) product

Y Luo, Y Li, J Wu, XS Xue, JF Hartwig, Q Shen - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
The step that cleaves the carbon-halogen bond in copper-catalyzed cross-coupling
reactions remains ill defined because of the multiple redox manifolds available to copper …

Copper-mediated synthesis of drug-like bicyclopentanes

X Zhang, RT Smith, C Le, SJ McCarver, BT Shireman… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Multicomponent reactions are relied on in both academic and industrial synthetic organic
chemistry owing to their step-and atom-economy advantages over traditional synthetic …

Creation from Confusion and Fusion in the Porphyrin World─ The Last Three Decades of N-Confused Porphyrinoid Chemistry

M Toganoh, H Furuta - Chemical Reviews, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Confusion is a novel concept of isomerism in porphyrin chemistry, delivering a steady
stream of new chemistry since the discovery of N-confused porphyrin, a porphyrin mutant, in …

Cobalt-Catalyzed Carbon–Heteroatom Transfer Enables Regioselective Tricomponent 1, 4-Carboamination

K Zhuang, GC Haug, Y Wang, S Yin… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Tricomponent cobalt (salen)-catalyzed carbofunctionalization of unsaturated substrates by
radical–polar crossover has the potential to streamline access to broad classes of …

Catalytically relevant organocopper (III) complexes formed through aryl-radical-enabled oxidative addition

W Yan, AT Poore, L Yin, S Carter, YS Ho… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Stepwise oxidative addition of copper (I) complexes to form copper (III) species via single
electron transfer (SET) events has been widely proposed in copper catalysis. However …

Cross-coupling by a noncanonical mechanism involving the addition of aryl halide to Cu (II)

CP Delaney, E Lin, Q Huang, IF Yu, G Rao, L Tao… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Copper complexes are widely used in the synthesis of fine chemicals and materials to
catalyze couplings of heteroatom nucleophiles with aryl halides. We show that cross …

Defect engineering of ceria nanocrystals for enhanced catalysis via a high-entropy oxide strategy

Y Sun, T Wu, Z Bao, J Moon, Z Huang, Z Chen… - ACS Central …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Introducing transition-metal components to ceria (CeO2) is important to tailor the surface
redox properties for a broad scope of applications. The emergence of high-entropy oxides …