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

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 …

Copper and palladium catalysts are critically important in numerous commercial chemical
processes. Improvements in the activity, selectivity and scope of these catalysts could …

Cyclometalation refers to the transition metal-mediated activation of a CR bond to form a
metallacycle comprising a new metal-carbon σ bond (Scheme 1). 1, 2 Typically, the reaction …

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

Copper (II)-mediated C–H oxidation is the subject of extensive interest in synthetic
chemistry, but the mechanisms of many of these reactions are poorly understood. Here, we …

Expanded porphyrins are synthetic analogues of the porphyrins, and differ from these and
other naturally occurring tetrapyrrolic macrocycles by containing a larger central core with a …

Over the past decade, numerous reports have focused on the development and applications
of Cu-mediated C–H functionalization reactions; however, to date, little is known about the …

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