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SUBMITTER: Poater A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3628990 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 20130320
In this work we analyze the whole molecular mechanism for intramolecular aromatic hydroxylation through O2 activation by a Schiff hexaazamacrocyclic dicopper(I) complex, [Cu(I) 2(bsH2m)](2+). Assisted by DFT calculations, we unravel the reaction pathway for the overall intramolecular aromatic hydroxylation, i.e., from the initial O2 reaction with the dicopper(I) species to first form a Cu(I)Cu(II)-superoxo species, the subsequent reaction with the second Cu(I) center to form a μ-η(2):η(2)-peroxo ...[more]