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Cover Picture: A High‐Valent Heterobimetallic [Cu III (μ‐O) 2 Ni III ] 2+ Core with Nucleophilic Oxo Groups (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 21/2013)
Author(s) -
Kundu Subrata,
Pfaff Florian Felix,
Miceli Enrico,
Zaharieva Ivelina,
Herwig Christian,
Yao Shenglai,
Farquhar Erik R.,
Kuhlmann Uwe,
Bill Eckhard,
Hildebrandt Peter,
Dau Holger,
Driess Matthias,
Limberg Christian,
Ray Kallol
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201303268
Subject(s) - nucleophile , chemistry , aldehyde , fluorescence , cofactor , metal , stereochemistry , crystallography , enzyme , catalysis , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
Unlike typical homodinuclear high‐valent [M 2 (μ‐O) 2 ] n + cores, a rare heterobimetallic high‐valent CuNi bis(μ‐oxo) complex behaves as a nucleophile. In their Communication on page 5622 ff., K. Ray, M. Driess, C. Limberg et al. show that this complex can initiate deformylation of aldehydes, indicating that mixed‐metal bis(μ‐oxo) cores are viable intermediates in the deformylation of fatty aldehydes by cyanobacterial aldehyde decarbonylase, for which a similar cofactor has been suggested, but not isolated.