Issue 74, 2017
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Chemical Communications

Reactivity of a stable copper–dioxygen complex†

Diana A. Iovan,a   Alexandra T. Wrobel,a   Arthur A. McClelland,b   Austin B. Scharf,a   Guy A. Edouarda  and  Theodore A. Betley ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
E-mail: betley@chemistry.harvard.edu

b Center for Nanoscale Systems, Harvard University, 11 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract

We report the isolation of a room temperature stable dipyrromethene Cu(O2) complex featuring a side-on O2 coordination. Reactivity studies highlight the unique ability of the dioxygen adduct for both hydrogen-atom abstraction and acid/base chemistry towards phenols, demonstrating that side-on superoxide species can be reactive entities.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC05014C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Jun 2017
Accepted
25 Aug 2017
First published
29 Aug 2017

Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 10306-10309

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Reactivity of a stable copper–dioxygen complex

D. A. Iovan, A. T. Wrobel, A. A. McClelland, A. B. Scharf, G. A. Edouard and T. A. Betley, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 10306 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC05014C

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