Alexander B. Sorokin and colleagues at the University of Lyon, France, continue their work on metallophthalocyanines by looking at N-bridged diiron complexes with an Fe–N–Fe core unit.
Having previously discovered these types of compound are capable of the catalytic oxidation of organic substrates (read their earlier paper here), in this Dalton Transactions Hot article Sorokin explains the high reactivity of this species, and how the system can efficiently oxidizing methane at extremely mild conditions.
High-valent diiron species generated from N-bridged diiron phthalocyanine and H2O2
Pavel Afanasiev, Evgeny V. Kudrik, Jean-Marc M. Millet, Denis Bouchu and Alexander B. Sorokin
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00958J , Paper
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