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

Fluorescence carbon nanomaterials-based sensors for accurate tracing of pesticides in
environmental, food and biological samples have gained considerable interest in the past …

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 …

Conspectus Selective oxidation reactions have extraordinary value in organic chemistry,
ranging from the conversion of petrochemical feedstocks into industrial chemicals and …

X-ray-based analytics are routinely applied in many fields, including physics, chemistry,
materials science, and engineering. The full potential of such techniques in the life sciences …

The Cu-catalyzed oxidation of ketones with O2 has recently been extensively utilized to
cleave the α-C–C bond. This report examines the selective aerobic hydroxylation of tertiary α …

The oxidation of phenols is the subject of extensive investigation, but there are few catalytic
aerobic examples that are chemo-and regioselective. Here we describe conditions for the …

The copper‐catalyzed aerobic oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols without an
external N‐oxide co‐oxidant is described. The catalyst system is composed of a Cu/diamine …

Conspectus Nature's facility with dioxygen outmatches modern chemistry in the oxidation
and oxygenation of materials and substrates for biosynthesis and cellular metabolism. The …

Regioselective hydroxylations of aromatic compounds are useful reactions but often lack
appropriate catalysts. Here a group of P450BM3 mutants (R47I/A82F/A328F …