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

Hydrocarbons, especially saturated hydrocarbons (alkanes), are the main constituents of oil
and natural gas, the feedstocks for chemical industry. Therefore, it is obvious that …

In recent years, significant progress has been made in understanding the geometric and
electronic structures of the active sites of non-heme iron enzymes and the contributions of …

1.1. Background Copper proteins that bind and/or activate dioxygen perform a variety of
critical biological functions. 1-3 These include O2 transport (hemocyanin, Hc), 4 aromatic …

This book deals with polypyrazolylborates (scorpionates), a class of ligands known since
1966, but becoming rapidly popular with inorganic, organometallic and coordination …

Copper is an important element in oxidation catalysts for laboratory and industrial use.
Aerobic oxidation of 2, 6-xylenol with copper (I) in the presence of a N-donor ligand such as …

A structural unit found in the active site of some copper proteins, the histidine brace, is
comprised of an N-terminal histidine that chelates a single copper ion through its amino …

Copper is a bioessential element in biology with truly unique chemical characteristics in its
two relevant oxidation states+ I and+ II. Significant progress has been made in recent years …

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

The considerable recent advances in copper–dioxygen coordination chemistry demonstrate
the existence of a variety of dioxygen-derived Cu nO 2 complexes, forming a basis for …