Volume 148, 2011

Copper dioxygen (bio)inorganic chemistry

Abstract

Cu/O2 intermediates in biological, homogeneous, and heterogeneous catalysts exhibit unique spectral features that reflect novel geometric and electronic structures that make significant contributions to reactivity. This review considers how the respective intermediate electronic structures overcome the spin-forbidden nature of O2 binding, activate O2 for electrophilic aromatic attack and H-atom abstraction, catalyze the 4 ereduction of O2 to H2O, and discusses the role of exchange coupling between Cu ions in determining reactivity.

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Jul 2010
Accepted
11 Aug 2010
First published
15 Oct 2010

Faraday Discuss., 2011,148, 11-39

Copper dioxygen (bio)inorganic chemistry

E. I. Solomon, J. W. Ginsbach, D. E. Heppner, M. T. Kieber-Emmons, C. H. Kjaergaard, P. J. Smeets, L. Tian and J. S. Woertink, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 148, 11 DOI: 10.1039/C005500J

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