In their exciting Dalton Transactions Hot Article, Wesley Browne, Ben Feringa and colleagues show that pyridine-2-carboxylic acid plays an unexpected role in manganese based oxidation catalysis. The group show that, though catalyst degradation is typically considered as a cause of catalyst deactivation, in this case in situ ligand degradation actually results in a highly active oxidation system.
The unexpected role of pyridine-2-carboxylic acid in manganese based oxidation catalysis with pyridin-2-yl based ligands
Dirk Pijper, Pattama Saisaha, Johannes W. de Boer, Rob Hoen, Christian Smit, Auke Meetsma, Ronald Hage, Ruben P. van Summeren, Paul L. Alsters, Ben L. Feringa and Wesley R. Browne
Dalton Trans., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00452A , Paper
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