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SUBMITTER: Liu JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5125784 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Israel journal of chemistry 20160726
Primary copper(I)-dioxygen (O<sub>2</sub>) adducts, cupric-superoxide complexes, have been proposed intermediates in copper-containing dioxygen-activating monooxygenase and oxidase enzymes. Here, mechanisms of C-H activation by reactive copper-(di)oxygen intermediates are discussed, with an emphasis on cupric-superoxide species. Over the past 25 years, many synthetically derived cupric-superoxide model complexes have been reported. Due to the thermal instability of these intermediates, early stu ...[more]