“…Of the several available oxygen donors, which include sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), iodosylbenzene (PhIO), alkyl peroxides (ROOH), hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), and oxygen (O 2 ), the latter is, undoubtedly, the most attractive, given its ubiquity and convenient handling, as well as its ability to mimic the cytochrome P-450 mechanism of action. , The utilization of O 2 , whose ground state is a low-reactivity triplet, in biomimetic catalytic systems requires the presence of an electron donor to initiate the catalytic cycle. This can be the porphyrin itself, as described by Groves in his seminal work using ruthenium porphyrins, aldehydes in systems following Mukaiyama-type mechanisms, and others. − It is generally accepted that the mono-oxygenase-mediated biological oxygenation mechanism (Figure ) involves two-electron reduction, with those electrons provided by the NADPH reductase. The first electron is used to reduce the Fe(III) ferric species to an Fe(II) ferrous species.…”