Activation of the C–H bond in hydrocarbons: the isolation and catalytic activity of a trinuclear organoiron carboxylate cluster

Biocatalytic and Biomimetic Oxidations from an Industrial Perspective

“…In their original studies, Barton and colleagues used H 2 S as the reductant. 85 forms may have utilized both iron and H 2 S in concert with O2 to activate hydrocarbons, and Tabushi's observation 90 that thiols, such as 2-mercaptoethanol, act as sacrificial reductants in analogous systems. More recently, Barton and co-workers 91 have improved their original system.…”

Electrochemical Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed C−H Bond Functionalization: Electricity as Clean Surrogates of Chemical Oxidants

“…described the electrochemical cathodic iron‐catalyzed oxidation of nonactivated saturated C−H bonds by molecular oxygen (Table ) . Interestingly, trinuclear‐iron cluster 99 was identified and synthesized as the catalyst . A series of saturated cyclic alkanes were oxidized to provide ketones as the major products.…”

A C2-symmetric, basic Fe(iii) carboxylate complex derived from a novel triptycene-based chelating carboxylate ligand

“…2–5 In addition, this family of complexes displays interesting catalytic properties in olefin epoxidation 6 and the oxidation of C–H bonds. 7,8 Aside from its distinctive {Fe 3 O(O 2 CR) 6 } +/0 core, several other features are characteristic of basic iron carboxylates. Most such complexes are bridged by ligands derived from six monocarboxylate ligands (Figure 1).…”