Molecular designs for controlling the local environments around metal ions

SA Cook, AS Borovik - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The functions of metal complexes are directly linked to the local environment in
which they are housed; modifications to the local environment (or secondary coordination …

Terminal oxo and imido transition‐metal complexes of groups 9–11

K Ray, F Heims, FF Pfaff - European Journal of Inorganic …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes the properties of group 9–11 metal–oxo and metal–imido
complexes, which have been either isolated or proposed as reactive intermediates in metal …

Fe2+/HClO Reaction Produces FeIVO2+: An Enhanced Advanced Oxidation Process

S Liang, L Zhu, J Hua, W Duan, PT Yang… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The reaction between Fe2+ and HClO constitutes a promising advanced oxidation process
(AOP) for removing pollutants from wastewater, and• OH has been considered the dominant …

Universal scaling relations for the rational design of molecular water oxidation catalysts with near-zero overpotential

MJ Craig, G Coulter, E Dolan, J Soriano-López… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A major roadblock in realizing large-scale production of hydrogen via electrochemical water
splitting is the cost and inefficiency of current catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction …

New strategies for direct methane-to-methanol conversion from active learning exploration of 16 million catalysts

A Nandy, C Duan, C Goffinet, HJ Kulik - Jacs Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite decades of effort, no earth-abundant homogeneous catalysts have been discovered
that can selectively oxidize methane to methanol. We exploit active learning to …

Dichotomous hydrogen atom transfer vs proton-coupled electron transfer during activation of X–H bonds (X= C, N, O) by nonheme iron–oxo complexes of variable …

D Usharani, DC Lacy, AS Borovik… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We describe herein the hydrogen-atom transfer (HAT)/proton-coupled electron-transfer
(PCET) reactivity for FeIV–oxo and FeIII–oxo complexes (1–4) that activate C–H, N–H, and O …

Using Computational Chemistry to Reveal Nature's Blueprints for Single-Site Catalysis of C–H Activation

A Nandy, H Adamji, DW Kastner, V Vennelakanti… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The challenge of activating inert C–H bonds motivates a study of catalysts that draws from
what can be accomplished by natural enzymes and translates these advantageous features …

Metal–oxyl species and their possible roles in chemical oxidations

Y Shimoyama, T Kojima - Inorganic Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Metal–oxyl (M n+-O•) complexes having an oxyl radical ligand, which are electronically
equivalent to well-known metal–oxo (M (n+ 1)+═ O) complexes, are surveyed as a new …

X-ray Spectroscopic Study of the Electronic Structure of a Trigonal High-Spin Fe (IV)═ O Complex Modeling Non-Heme Enzyme Intermediates and Their Reactivity

A Braun, LB Gee, MW Mara, EA Hill… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fe K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has long been used for the study of high-
valent iron intermediates in biological and artificial catalysts. 4p-mixing into the 3d orbitals …

Machine learning accelerates the discovery of design rules and exceptions in stable metal–oxo intermediate formation

A Nandy, J Zhu, JP Janet, C Duan, RB Getman… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Metal–oxo moieties are important catalytic intermediates in the selective partial oxidation of
hydrocarbons and in water splitting. Stable metal–oxo species have reactive properties that …