Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond

VA Larson, B Battistella, K Ray, N Lehnert… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
High-valent metal–oxo species with multiply-bonded M–O groups have been proposed as
key intermediates in many biological and abiological catalytic oxidation reactions. These …

Analyzing reaction rates with the distortion/interaction‐activation strain model

FM Bickelhaupt, KN Houk - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The activation strain or distortion/interaction model is a tool to analyze activation barriers that
determine reaction rates. For bimolecular reactions, the activation energies are the sum of …

Proton-coupled electron transfer guidelines, fair and square

R Tyburski, T Liu, SD Glover… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions are fundamental to energy transformation
reactions in natural and artificial systems and are increasingly recognized in areas such as …

The medicinal chemist's toolbox for late stage functionalization of drug-like molecules

T Cernak, KD Dykstra, S Tyagarajan… - Chemical Society …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The advent of modern C–H functionalization chemistries has enabled medicinal chemists to
consider a synthetic strategy, late stage functionalization (LSF), which utilizes the C–H …

How Doped MoS2 Breaks Transition-Metal Scaling Relations for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction

X Hong, K Chan, C Tsai, JK Nørskov - Acs Catalysis, 2016 - ACS Publications
Linear scaling relationships between the adsorption energies of CO2 reduction
intermediates pose a fundamental limitation to the catalytic efficiency of transition-metal …

Oxidation Reactions with Bioinspired Mononuclear Non‐Heme Metal–Oxo Complexes

X Engelmann, I Monte‐Pérez… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The selective functionalization of strong C− H bonds and the oxidation of water by cheap
and nontoxic metals are some of the key targets of chemical research today. It has been …

Toward the Synthesis of More Reactive S = 2 Non-Heme Oxoiron(IV) Complexes

M Puri, L Que Jr - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus 2003 marked a banner year in the bioinorganic chemistry of mononuclear non-
heme iron enzymes. The first non-heme oxoiron (IV) intermediate (called J) was trapped and …

On the nature of the halogen bond

C Wang, D Danovich, Y Mo, S Shaik - Journal of chemical theory …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The wide-ranging applications of the halogen bond (X-bond), notably in self-assembling
materials and medicinal chemistry, have placed this weak intermolecular interaction in a …

Targeting of high-valent iron-TAML activators at hydrocarbons and beyond

TJ Collins, AD Ryabov - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
TAML activators of peroxides are iron (III) complexes. The ligation by four deprotonated
amide nitrogens in macrocyclic motifs is the signature of TAMLs where the macrocyclic …

In Situ Identification of Reaction Intermediates and Mechanistic Understandings of Methane Oxidation over Hematite: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical …

Y He, F Guo, KR Yang, JA Heinlein… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Effective methane utilization for either clean power generation or value-added chemical
production has been a subject of growing attention worldwide for decades, yet challenges …