Speciation in iron epoxidation catalysis: A perspective on the discovery and role of non-heme iron (III)-hydroperoxo species in iron-catalyzed oxidation reactions

SM Hölzl, PJ Altmann, JW Kück, FE Kühn - Coordination Chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Oxidation reactions catalyzed by enzymes with central iron atoms are essential to life. The
nature of these systems has evoked great interest to understand and model their reactivity …

C–H bond cleavage by bioinspired nonheme metal complexes

JL Lee, DL Ross, SK Barman, JW Ziller… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The functionalization of C–H bonds is one of the most challenging transformations in
synthetic chemistry. In biology, these processes are well-known and are achieved with a …

New strategies for direct methane-to-methanol conversion from active learning exploration of 16 million catalysts

A Nandy, C Duan, C Goffinet, HJ Kulik - Jacs Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite decades of effort, no earth-abundant homogeneous catalysts have been discovered
that can selectively oxidize methane to methanol. We exploit active learning to …

Inspiration from Nature: influence of engineered ligand scaffolds and auxiliary factors on the reactivity of biomimetic oxidants

G Mukherjee, JK Satpathy, UK Bagha… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enzymes are highly efficient catalysts in Nature that often react with high stereo-, chemo-,
and regioselectivity. Usually, enzymes achieve this selectivity through substrate binding and …

Metal–Ligand Cooperativity via Exchange Coupling Promotes Iron- Catalyzed Electrochemical CO2 Reduction at Low Overpotentials

JS Derrick, M Loipersberger, R Chatterjee… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biological and heterogeneous catalysts for the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction
(CO2RR) often exhibit a high degree of electronic delocalization that serves to minimize …

Iron complexes of square planar tetradentate polypyridyl-type ligands as catalysts for water oxidation

LD Wickramasinghe, R Zhou, R Zong… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The tetradentate ligand, 2-(pyrid-2′-yl)-8-(1 ″, 10 ″-phenanthrolin-2 ″-yl)-quinoline (ppq)
embodies a quaterpyridine backbone but with the quinoline C8 providing an additional sp2 …

Machine learning accelerates the discovery of design rules and exceptions in stable metal–oxo intermediate formation

A Nandy, J Zhu, JP Janet, C Duan, RB Getman… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Metal–oxo moieties are important catalytic intermediates in the selective partial oxidation of
hydrocarbons and in water splitting. Stable metal–oxo species have reactive properties that …

Effects of noncovalent interactions on high-spin Fe (IV)–oxido complexes

VF Oswald, JL Lee, S Biswas, AC Weitz… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
High-valent nonheme FeIV–oxido species are key intermediates in biological oxidation, and
their properties are proposed to be influenced by the unique microenvironments present in …

Electrochemical C–H oxygenation and alcohol dehydrogenation involving Fe-oxo species using water as the oxygen source

A Das, JE Nutting, SS Stahl - Chemical science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
High-valent iron-oxo complexes are key intermediates in C–H functionalization reactions.
Herein, we report the generation of a (TAML) Fe-oxo species (TAML= tetraamido …

Highly regioselective oxidation of C–H bonds in water using hydrogen peroxide by a cytochrome P450 mimicking iron complex

S Jana, P De, C Dey, SG Dey, A Dey, SS Gupta - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cytochrome P450, one of nature's oxidative workhorses, catalyzes the oxidation of C–H
bonds in complex biological settings. Extensive research has been conducted over the past …