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SUBMITTER: Zalatan DN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2827177 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zalatan David N DN Du Bois J J
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20090601 22
Catalytic amination of saturated C-H bonds is performed efficiently with the use of Rh(2)(esp)(2). Efforts to identify pathways for catalyst degradation and/or arrest have revealed a single-electron oxidation event that gives rise to a red-colored, mixed-valence dimer, [Rh(2)(esp)(2)](+). This species is fortuitously reduced by carboxylic acid, a byproduct generated in the reaction cycle with each turnover of the diacyloxyiodine oxidant. These findings have led to the conclusion that the high pe ...[more]