Hidehito Komatsuzaki, Yuichi Nagasu, Kantaro Suzuki, Takao Shibasaki, Minoru Satoh, Fujio Ebina, Shiro Hikichi, Munetaka Akita and Yoshihiko Moro-oka
Reaction of a MnII thiolate complex bearing hydrotris(3,5-diisopropylpyrazol-1-yl)borate with O2 resulted in O–O bond activation to give a dinuclear MnIII bis(µ-oxo) complex and a ligand-oxygenated dinuclear MnIII µ-oxo complex, or the dinuclear MnIII,IV µ-acetato-bis(µ-oxo) complex in the presence of a MnII acetate complex.