List of works by Miquel Costas

A Biomimetic Iron Catalyst for the Epoxidation of Olefins with Molecular Oxygen at Room Temperature

scientific article published on 11 January 2011

A Bottom Up Approach Towards Artificial Oxygenases by Combining Iron Coordination Complexes and Peptides.

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

A Broad Substrate-Scope Method for Fast, Efficient and Selective Hydrogen Peroxide-Epoxidation

A Copper-based Supramolecular Nanocapsule that Enables Straightforward Purification of Sc3 N-based Endohedral Metallofullerene Soots

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

A Deep Cavitand Receptor Functionalized with Fe(II) and Mn(II) Aminopyridine Complexes for Bioinspired Oxidation Catalysis

A Novel Platform for Modeling Oxidative Catalysis in Non‐Heme Iron Oxygenases with Unprecedented Efficiency

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A dramatic push effect on the homolysis of FeIII(OOR) intermediates to form non-heme FeIV=O complexes

scientific article published in August 2003

A nonheme iron(II) complex that models the redox cycle of lipoxygenase

scientific article published in March 2001

A structural and Mössbauer study of complexes with Fe(2)(micro-O(H))(2) cores: stepwise oxidation from Fe(II)(micro-OH)(2)Fe(II) through Fe(II)(micro-OH)(2)Fe(III) to Fe(III)(micro-O)(micro-OH)Fe(III).

scientific article

A synthetic model for the putative Fe(IV)(2)O(2) diamond core of methane monooxygenase intermediate Q.

scientific article published in December 2001

Acid-triggered O-O bond heterolysis of a nonheme FeIII(OOH) species for the stereospecific hydroxylation of strong C-H bonds.

scientific article

Aliphatic C–H Bond Oxidation with Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Manganese Complexes: Directing Selectivity through Torsional Effects

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

Alkane Hydroxylation by a Nonheme Iron Catalyst that Challenges the Heme Paradigm for Oxygenase Action

scientific article published on 05 December 2007

Aminopyridine Iron and Manganese Complexes as Molecular Catalysts for Challenging Oxidative Transformations

An FeIV=O complex of a tetradentate tripodal nonheme ligand

scholarly article

An Iron Catalyst for Oxidation of Alkyl CH Bonds Showing Enhanced Selectivity for Methylenic Sites

scientific article published on 19 December 2012

Aryl-O reductive elimination from reaction of well-defined aryl-Cu(III) species with phenolates: the importance of ligand reactivity.

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Assessing the Impact of Electronic and Steric Tuning of the Ligand in the Spin State and Catalytic Oxidation Ability of the FeII(Pytacn) Family of Complexes

scientific article published on 31 July 2013

Asymmetric epoxidation with H2O2 by manipulating the electronic properties of non-heme iron catalysts

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Bioinspired Electro-Organocatalytic Material Efficient for Hydrogen Production.

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Bioinspired Oxidations Catalyzed by Nonheme Iron and Manganese Complexes

Biologically Inspired C-H and C=C Oxidations with Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Iron Coordination Complexes

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Biologically inspired non-heme iron-catalysts for asymmetric epoxidation; design principles and perspectives

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Biologically inspired oxidation catalysis using metallopeptides

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Biomimetic nonheme iron catalysts for alkane hydroxylation

Building complexity in O2-binding copper complexes. Site-selective metalation and intermolecular O2-binding at dicopper and heterometallic complexes derived from an unsymmetric ligand

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C-H Bond Oxidation Catalyzed by an Imine-Based Iron Complex: A Mechanistic Insight.

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Catalytic C–S, C–Se, and C–P Cross-Coupling Reactions Mediated by a CuI/CuIII Redox Cycle

article published in 2012

Catalytic O2 activation with synthetic models of α-ketoglutarate dependent oxygenases

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Characterized cis-Fe(O)(OH) intermediate mimics enzymatic oxidations in the gas phase

Chasing the Evasive Fe═O Stretch and the Spin State of the Iron(IV)-Oxo Complexes by Photodissociation Spectroscopy.

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Chemoselective Aliphatic C-H Bond Oxidation Enabled by Polarity Reversal

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Chemoselectivity in the Oxidation of Cycloalkenes with a Non-Heme Iron(IV)-Oxo-Chloride Complex: Epoxidation vs. Hydroxylation Selectivity

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Chiral manganese complexes with pinene appended tetradentate ligands as stereoselective epoxidation catalysts

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Computational Insight into the Mechanism of Alkane Hydroxylation by Non-heme Fe(PyTACN) Iron Complexes. Effects of the Substrate and Solvent.

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Controlling selectivity in aliphatic C-H oxidation via supramolecular recognition

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Copper(I)-dioxygen reactivity of [(L)Cu(I)](+) (L = tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine): kinetic/thermodynamic and spectroscopic studies concerning the formation of Cu-O2 and Cu2-O2 adducts as a function of solvent medium and 4-pyridyl ligand substituent va

scientific article published in March 2003

Copper(I)-induced activation of dioxygen for the oxidation of organic substrates under mild conditions. An evaluation of ligand effects

Copper(II) Hexaaza Macrocyclic Binuclear Complexes Obtained from the Reaction of Their Copper(I) Derivates and Molecular Dioxygen

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Copper-based water reduction catalysts for efficient light-driven hydrogen generation

Copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidative functionalization of an arene C-H bond: evidence for an aryl-copper(III) intermediate

scientific article published on September 2010

Delivering aminopyridine ligands into cancer cells through conjugation to the cell-penetrating peptide BP16.

scientific article

Design of Iron Coordination Complexes as Highly Active Homogenous Water Oxidation Catalysts by Deuteration of Oxidation-Sensitive Sites

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Design of Zn-, Cu-, and Fe-Coordination Complexes Confined in a Self-Assembled Nanocage

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

Design, Preparation, and Characterization of Zn and Cu Metallopeptides Based On Tetradentate Aminopyridine Ligands Showing Enhanced DNA Cleavage Activity.

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

Detection of Indistinct Fe-N Stretching Bands in Iron(V) Nitrides by Photodissociation Spectroscopy.

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Dinuclear Copper(I) Complexes with Hexaaza Macrocyclic Dinucleating Ligands: Structure and Dynamic Properties

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Dioxygen activation at mononuclear nonheme iron active sites: enzymes, models, and intermediates

scientific article published on February 2004

Direct observation of CuI/CuIII redox steps relevant to Ullmann-type coupling reactions

article by Alicia Casitas et al published 2010 in Chemical Science

Direct observation of two-electron Ag(I)/Ag(III) redox cycles in coupling catalysis

scientific article published on 11 July 2014

EPR detection of Fe(V)=O active species in nonheme iron-catalyzed oxidations

Effective Tetradentate Compound Complexes against spp. that Act on Critical Enzymatic Pathways of These Parasites

scientific article published on 31 December 2018

Efficient and Selective Peracetic Acid Epoxidation Catalyzed by a Robust Manganese Catalyst

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

Efficient water oxidation catalysts based on readily available iron coordination complexes

scientific article published on 04 September 2011

Electronic Effects on Single-Site Iron Catalysts for Water Oxidation

scientific article published on 24 May 2013

Electronic and Torsional Effects on Hydrogen Atom Transfer from Aliphatic C-H Bonds: A Kinetic Evaluation via Reaction with the Cumyloxyl Radical

scientific article

Electrophilic Arene Hydroxylation and Phenol OH Oxidations Performed by an Unsymmetric μ-η1:η1-O2-Peroxo Dicopper(II) Complex

scientific article published on 16 January 2012

Electrophilic Iron Catalyst Paired with a Lithium Cation Enables Selective Functionalization of Non-Activated Aliphatic C-H Bonds via Metallocarbene Intermediates

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Enantioselective C-H Lactonization of Unactivated Methylenes Directed by Carboxylic Acids

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Enantioselective Epoxidation of β,β-Disubstituted Enamides with a Manganese Catalyst and Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Enantioselective aliphatic C–H bond oxidation catalyzed by bioinspired complexes

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Enantioselective hydroformylation by a Rh-catalyst entrapped in a supramolecular metallocage.

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Enzyme-like substrate-selectivity in C–H oxidation enabled by recognition

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Enzyme-triggered delivery of chlorambucil from conjugates based on the cell-penetrating peptide BP16.

scientific article

Erratum: Evidence for an oxygen evolving iron-oxo-cerium intermediate in iron-catalysed water oxidation.

scientific article

Evidence for a Precursor Complex in CH Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions Mediated by a Manganese(IV) Oxo Complex

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Evidence for an oxygen evolving iron-oxo-cerium intermediate in iron-catalysed water oxidation

scientific article

Evidence of a Sole Oxygen Atom Transfer Agent in Asymmetric Epoxidations with Fe-pdp Catalysts

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Evidence that steric factors modulate reactivity of tautomeric iron-oxo species in stereospecific alkane C-H hydroxylation

scientific article published in February 2014

Exceedingly Fast Oxygen Atom Transfer to Olefins via a Catalytically Competent Nonheme Iron Species

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

Fast O2 binding at dicopper complexes containing Schiff-base dinucleating ligands

scientific article

Fe(6-Me-PyTACN)-catalyzed, one-pot oxidative cleavage of methyl oleate and oleic acid into carboxylic acids with H2O2 and NaIO4

Fe(PyTACN)-Catalyzedcis-Dihydroxylation of Olefins with Hydrogen Peroxide

FeCl 2 py 4 + catalyzed transformation of aromatic amines by HOOH under mild conditions

Frontispiece: Controlling Selectivity in Aliphatic C−H Oxidation through Supramolecular Recognition

Generation, Spectroscopic, and Chemical Characterization of an Octahedral Iron(V)-Nitrido Species with a Neutral Ligand Platform

scientific article published on 09 June 2017

Greening Oxidation Catalysis: Iron Catalyzed Alkene syn-Dihydroxylation with Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide in Green Solvents

H2 oxidation versus organic substrate oxidation in non-heme iron mediated reactions with H2O2.

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

High-valent nonheme iron. Two distinct iron(IV) species derived from a common iron(II) precursor

scientific article published in August 2005

Highly Enantioselective Oxidation of Nonactivated Aliphatic C-H Bonds with Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Manganese Complexes

scientific article published on 8 February 2017

Highly effective water oxidation catalysis with iridium complexes through the use of NaIO4.

scientific article

Highly enantioselective epoxidation of olefins by H2O2 catalyzed by a non-heme Fe(ii) catalyst of a chiral tetradentate ligand

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Highly stereoselective epoxidation with H2O2 catalyzed by electron-rich aminopyridine manganese catalysts.

scientific article

Hydrogen sulfide impacts on inflammation-induced adipocyte dysfunction

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Identification and spectroscopic characterization of nonheme iron(III) hypochlorite intermediates.

scientific article published on 6 February 2015

Identification of BP16 as a non-toxic cell-penetrating peptide with highly efficient drug delivery properties

scientific article published on March 2014

Ionic liquids as reaction media in catalytic oxidations with manganese and iron pyridyl triazacyclononane complexes

Iron Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Epoxidation of Cyclic Aliphatic Enones with Aqueous H2O2

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Iron and Manganese Catalysts for the Selective Functionalization of Arene C(sp(2) )-H Bonds by Carbene Insertion

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Iron-Catalyzed CH Hydroxylation and Olefincis-Dihydroxylation Using a Single-Electron Oxidant and Water as the Oxygen-Atom Source

scientific article published on 13 September 2012

Iron-Catalyzed Olefincis-Dihydroxylation by H2O2: Electrophilic versus Nucleophilic Mechanisms

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Isomeric molecular rectangles resulting from self-assembly of dicopper complexes of macrocyclic ligands.

scientific article published in March 2006

Kinetic analysis of the conversion of nonheme (alkylperoxo)iron(III) species to iron(IV) complexes

scientific article published on 28 February 2007

Ligand Topology Effects on Olefin Oxidations by Bio-Inspired [FeII(N2Py2)] Catalysts

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Ligand Topology Tuning of Iron-Catalyzed Hydrocarbon Oxidations We thank the National Institutes of Health for financial support (GM33162 to L.Q.) and Fundacio La Caixa for a postdoctoral fellowship (M.C.)

M-O Bonding Beyond the Oxo Wall: Spectroscopy and Reactivity of Cobalt(III)-Oxyl and Cobalt(III)-Oxo Complexes

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Mechanism of the Selective Fe-Catalyzed Arene Carbon–Hydrogen Bond Functionalization

article published in 2018

Mechanistic Insights into the ortho-Defluorination-Hydroxylation of 2-Halophenolates Promoted by a Bis(μ-oxo)dicopper(III) Complex

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Mechanistically Driven Development of an Iron Catalyst for Selective Syn-Dihydroxylation of Alkenes with Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

Metallosupramolecular receptors for fullerene binding and release

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Modeling Rieske Dioxygenases: The First Example of Iron-Catalyzed Asymmetriccis-Dihydroxylation of Olefins

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Modeling the cis-oxo-labile binding site motif of non-heme iron oxygenases: water exchange and oxidation reactivity of a non-heme iron(IV)-oxo compound bearing a tripodal tetradentate ligand.

scientific article

Molecular mechanism of acid-triggered aryl–halide reductive elimination in well-defined aryl–CuIII–halide species

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Nanosized trigonal prismatic and antiprismatic CuII coordination cages based on tricarboxylate linkers

scientific article published on 18 February 2008

Nonclassical Single-State Reactivity of an Oxo-Iron(IV) Complex Confined to Triplet Pathways

scientific article

Nonheme Fe(IV) Oxo Complexes of Two New Pentadentate Ligands and Their Hydrogen-Atom and Oxygen-Atom Transfer Reactions

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complexes of Pentadentate N5 Ligands: Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, and Oxidative Reactivity

scientific article

Nucleophilic Aryl Fluorination and Aryl Halide Exchange Mediated by a CuI/CuIIICatalytic Cycle

scientific article published on 14 November 2011

O2 chemistry of dicopper complexes with alkyltriamine ligands. Comparing synergistic effects on O2 binding

scientific article published on July 2006

Observation and mechanistic study of facile C-O bond formation between a well-defined aryl-copper(III) complex and oxygen nucleophiles

scientific article published in September 2011

Observation of Fe(V)=O using variable-temperature mass spectrometry and its enzyme-like C–H and C=C oxidation reactions

article published in 2011

Octahedral iron(iv)-tosylimido complexes exhibiting single electron-oxidation reactivity

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Olefin cis-dihydroxylation versus epoxidation by non-heme iron catalysts: two faces of an Fe(III)-OOH coin

scientific article published in March 2002

Olefin-dependent discrimination between two nonheme HO-FeV=O tautomeric species in catalytic H2O2 epoxidations.

scientific article published in January 2009

Oxidation of alkane and alkene moieties with biologically inspired nonheme iron catalysts and hydrogen peroxide: from free radicals to stereoselective transformations.

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Oxoiron(IV) complexes of the tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine ligand family: effect of pyridine alpha-substituents

scientific article published on 11 March 2006

Oxoiron(IV) complexes of the tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine ligand family: effect of pyridine α-substituents

Oxygen Atom Exchange between H2O and Non-Heme Oxoiron(IV) Complexes: Ligand Dependence and Mechanism

scientific article published on 08 June 2016

Peptide-mediated vectorization of metal complexes: conjugation strategies and biomedical applications.

scientific article

Pro-Oxidant Activity of Amine-Pyridine-Based Iron Complexes Efficiently Kills Cancer and Cancer Stem-Like Cells

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Readily Accessible Bulky Iron Catalysts exhibiting Site Selectivity in the Oxidation of Steroidal Substrates

Readily Accessible Bulky Iron Catalysts exhibiting Site Selectivity in the Oxidation of Steroidal Substrates

scientific article published on 05 April 2016

Recent Advances in the Selective Oxidation of Alkyl C-H Bonds Catalyzed by Iron Coordination Complexes

scientific article published on 30 August 2015

Redox-Controlled Molecular Flipper Based on a Chiral Cu Complex

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Redox-Controlled Molecular Flipper Based on a Chiral Cu Complex

Regioselective oxidation of nonactivated alkyl C-H groups using highly structured non-heme iron catalysts

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

Reversible C60 Ejection from a Metallocage through the Redox-Dependent Binding of a Competitive Guest

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Robust iron coordination complexes with N-based neutral ligands as efficient Fenton-like catalysts at neutral pH.

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

Role of carboxylate bridges in modulating nonheme diiron(II)/O(2) reactivity

scientific article

Selective C–H oxidation catalyzed by metalloporphyrins

article published in 2011

Selective ortho-hydroxylation-defluorination of 2-fluorophenolates with a bis(μ-oxo)dicopper(III) species

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Self-Assembled Cofacial Zinc-Porphyrin Supramolecular Nanocapsules as Tuneable 1 O2 Photosensitizers.

scientific article

Self-assembled tetragonal prismatic molecular cage highly selective for anionic π guests.

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

Self-assembling of nanoscopic molecular rectangles, extended helicates and porous-like materials based on macrocyclic dicopper building blocks under fine supramolecular control

scientific article published on 14 August 2007

Simple and Sustainable Copper-O2Chemistry towards High-Value Products

Size-selective encapsulation of C60 and C60-derivatives within an adaptable naphthalene-based tetragonal prismatic supramolecular nanocapsule

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Spectroscopic Analyses on Reaction Intermediates Formed during Chlorination of Alkanes with NaOCl Catalyzed by a Nickel Complex

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

Spectroscopic Characterization and Reactivity of Triplet and Quintet Iron(IV) Oxo Complexes in the Gas Phase.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Spectroscopic and DFT Characterization of a Highly Reactive Nonheme FeV-oxo Intermediate

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Spectroscopic and Reactivity Comparisons between Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) and Oxoiron(V) Species Bearing the Same Ancillary Ligand

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Spectroscopic, Electrochemical and Computational Characterisation of Ru Species Involved in Catalytic Water Oxidation: Evidence for a [Ru(V) (O)(Py2 (Me) tacn)] Intermediate.

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Spin state tuning of non-heme iron-catalyzed hydrocarbon oxidations: participation of FeIII–OOH and FeVO intermediatesBased on the presentation given at Dalton Discussion No. 4, 10–13th January 2002, Kloster Banz, Germany

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Spin states: discussion of an open problem

scientific article published in January 2013

Spin-State-Controlled Photodissociation of Iron(III) Azide to an Iron(V) Nitride Complex

Spin-State-Controlled Photodissociation of Iron(III) Azide to an Iron(V) Nitride Complex.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Sponge-like molecular cage for purification of fullerenes.

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Stereoselective Epoxidation of Alkenes with Hydrogen Peroxide using a Bipyrrolidine-Based Family of Manganese Complexes

Stereospecific CH Oxidation with H2O2Catalyzed by a Chemically Robust Site-Isolated Iron Catalyst

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Structural and kinetic study of reversible CO2 fixation by dicopper macrocyclic complexes. From intramolecular binding to self-assembly of molecular boxes

scientific article published on 3 October 2007

Structural and reactivity models for copper oxygenases: cooperative effects and novel reactivities

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

Structural modeling of iron halogenases: synthesis and reactivity of halide-iron(IV)-oxo compounds

scientific article published on 5 August 2014

Supramolecular Recognition Allows Remote, Site-Selective C-H Oxidation of Methylenic Sites in Linear Amines.

scientific article

Supramolecular Recognition Allows Remote, Site-Selective C−H Oxidation of Methylenic Sites in Linear Amines

Synergistic Interplay of a Non-Heme Iron Catalyst and Amino Acid Coligands in H2O2Activation for Asymmetric Epoxidation of α-Alkyl-Substituted Styrenes

scientific article published on 19 January 2015

Synthesis, Structure and Hydrolytic Properties of a Family of New Zn Complexes Containing Hexaazamacrocyclic Ligands

Tetradentate polyamines as efficient metallodrugs for Chagas disease treatment in murine model

scientific article published on 02 June 2016

The Iron(II) Complex [Fe(CF3SO3)2(mcp)] as a Convenient, Readily Available Catalyst for the Selective Oxidation of Methylenic Sites in Alkanes

The Quest for Selectivity in Hydrogen Atom Transfer Based Aliphatic C–H Bond Oxygenation

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

The mechanism of stereospecific C-H oxidation by Fe(Pytacn) complexes: bioinspired non-heme iron catalysts containing cis-labile exchangeable sites

scientific article

Theoretical study of the water oxidation mechanism with non-heme Fe(Pytacn) iron complexes. Evidence that the Fe(IV)(O)(Pytacn) species cannot react with the water molecule to form the O-O bond

scientific article published on 9 May 2014

Trapping Iron(III)-Oxo Species at the Boundary of the "Oxo Wall": Insights into the Nature of the Fe(III)-O Bond

scientific article published in 2018

Trapping a Highly Reactive Nonheme Iron Intermediate That Oxygenates Strong C-H Bonds with Stereoretention.

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Triggering the generation of an iron(IV)-oxo compound and its reactivity toward sulfides by Ru(II) photocatalysis

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Tuning Selectivity in Aliphatic C–H Bond Oxidation of N-Alkylamides and Phthalimides Catalyzed by Manganese Complexes

Tyrosinase-like reactivity in a Cu(III)2(mu-O)2 species.

scientific article

Uncovering the Complexity of the Simplest Atom Transfer Reaction

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Unraveling the mechanism of water oxidation catalyzed by nonheme iron complexes

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Well-Defined Heterometallic and Unsymmetric M2O2 Complexes Arising from Binding and Activation of O2

article published in 2011

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Studies of High-Spin Nonheme (Alkylperoxo)iron(III) Intermediates

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

XAS characterization of end-on and side-on peroxoiron(III) complexes of the neutral pentadentate N-donor ligand N-methyl-N,N',N'-tris(2-pyridylmethyl)ethane-1,2-diamine.

scientific article published on 13 September 2004