Conspectus Recent efforts to design synthetic iron catalysts for the selective and efficient
oxidation of C–H and C C bonds have been inspired by a versatile family of nonheme iron …

High-valent iron-oxo intermediates have often been implicated, and in some cases
identified, as the active oxidant in oxygen activating nonheme iron enzymes. Recent …

Recognizing Nature's unique ability to perform challenging oxygenation reactions with
exquisite selectivity parameters at iron-dependent oxygenases, chemists have long sought …

An unprecedentedly reactive iron species (2) has been generated by reaction of excess
peracetic acid with a mononuclear iron complex [FeII (CF3SO3) 2 (PyNMe3)](1) at cryogenic …

Nonheme iron enzymes generate powerful and versatile oxidants that perform a wide range
of oxidation reactions, including the functionalization of inert C− H bonds, which is a major …

Oxo-transfer chemistry mediated by iron underpins many biological processes and today is
emerging as synthetically very important for the catalytic oxidation of C–H and C= C moieties …

Chiral bipyrrolidine based iron and manganese complexes [((S, S)-pdp) MII (OTf) 2] catalyze
the asymmetric epoxidation of various olefins with H2O2 in the presence of carboxylic acid …

Ketone in charge: a formal ketone-directed palladium-catalyzed ortho-hydroxylation of
arenes has been developed as an effective approach to access o-acylphenols from simple …

The selective oxygenation of C–H bonds is a promising and interesting task for both
academia and chemical industry. Inspired by the efficiency and selectivity of naturally …

Development of catalysts for the selective hydroxylation of inert CÀH bonds is an important
research objective.[1–4] Significant progress toward this goal has been made in recent …