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Dioxygen; dicopper complexes; m-xylyl-based dinucleating ligands; stoichiometric oxidation reactions

Activation of dioxygen on dicopper(I) centres was systematically investigated using a group of open-chain and a macrocyclicm-xylyl-based dinucleating ligand from a bioinorganic viewpoint. Even though intermediate peroxodicopper(II) species was not detected (even at −80°C for the open-chain system), the putative intermediate reacted with C–H groups in ligands giving oxygenated products (C–OH groups). Absorption, spectroscopic and magnetic properties of the final dicopper(II) complexes have been investigated.

Rajeev Gupta¹ Debalina Ghosh¹ Rabindranath Mukherjee¹

1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur - 208 016, India

Published

June 2000