Confusion is a novel concept of isomerism in porphyrin chemistry, delivering a steady
stream of new chemistry since the discovery of N-confused porphyrin, a porphyrin mutant, in …

The selective oxidation of C H bonds and the use of O2 as a stoichiometric oxidant
represent two prominent challenges in organic chemistry. Copper (II) is a versatile oxidant …

Organometallic CuIII species have been invoked in many copper-catalyzed reactions, but
until recently, experimental evidences were lacking. The advent of new spectroscopic …

Organocopper compounds in organic chemistry appear most frequently in the form of
nucleophilic organocopper (I) reagents, which are used either as stoichiometric reagents or …

Recent studies have highlighted the ability of CuII to catalyze the aerobic oxidative
functionalization of C− H bonds; however, very little is known about the mechanisms of these …

The replacement of one or more pyrrolic building block (s) of a porphyrin by a nonpyrrolic
heterocycle leads to the formation of so-called pyrrole-modified porphyrins (PMPs) …

The world of modified porphyrins changed forever when an N-confused porphyrin (NCP), a
porphyrin isomer, was first published in 1994. The replacement of one inner nitrogen with a …

The use of cyclic polyene perimeter-model approaches, such as Gouterman's four-orbital
model and Michl's perimeter model, to analyze trends in the electronic structures and optical …

Following immediately after the serendipitous discovery of N-confused porphyrins,
remarkably diverse carbaporphyrinoid systems have been synthesized and investigated. By …

Carbon–carbon bond-forming reductive elimination from elusive organocopper (III)
complexes has been considered the key step in many copper-catalyzed and organocuprate …