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Cover Picture: Aromatic Hydroxylation at a Non‐Heme Iron Center: Observed Intermediates and Insights into the Nature of the Active Species (Chem. Eur. J. 47/2010)
Author(s) -
Makhlynets Olga V.,
RybakAkimova Elena V.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201090233
Subject(s) - heterolysis , chemistry , stereochemistry , enantiomer , glutamate receptor , molecule , nmda receptor , catalysis , chirality (physics) , combinatorial chemistry , receptor , biochemistry , organic chemistry , nambu–jona lasinio model , chiral symmetry breaking , physics , quantum mechanics , quark
An excellent catalyst for selective CH oxidations with H 2 O 2 is the complex [Fe(bpmen)(CH 3 CN) 2 ][ClO 4 ] 2 ( 1 ). Until now, no intermediates have been observed in these reactions and the exact mechanism remained unclear. In their Full Paper on page 13995 ff. , E. V. Rybak‐Akimova and O. V. Makhlynets identified and experimentally characterized Fe III (OOH) and Fe IV O intermediates formed by 1 and H 2 O 2 . Detailed kinetic and mechanistic studies revealed that Fe III (OOH) produces the reactive oxidant in the rate‐limiting, acid‐assisted heterolytic cleavage of the OO bond.