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Dalton Trans. 2016 Jan 14;45(2):469-73. doi: 10.1039/c5dt04088d.

New mechanistic insight into intramolecular arene hydroxylation initiated by (μ-1,2-peroxo)diiron(III) complexes with dinucleating ligands.

Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

Mio Sekino, Hideki Furutachi, Kyosuke Tasaki, Takanao Ishikawa, Shigeki Mori, Shuhei Fujinami, Shigehisa Akine, Yoko Sakata, Takashi Nomura, Takashi Ogura, Teizo Kitagawa, Masatatsu Suzuki

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, Division of Material Sciences, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan. [email protected].
  2. Picobiology Institute, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Ako-gun, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan.
  3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Moto-oka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.

PMID: 26646073 DOI: 10.1039/c5dt04088d

Abstract

(μ-1,2-Peroxo)diiron(iii) complexes (-R) with dinucleating ligands (R-L) generated from the reaction of bis(μ-hydroxo)diiron(ii) complexes [Fe2(R-L)(OH)2](2+) (-R) with dioxygen in acetone at -20 °C provide a diiron-centred electrophilic oxidant, presumably diiron(iv)-oxo species, which is involved in aromatic ligand hydroxylation.

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