While a 1:1 Cu-O2 adduct is generally unreactive with organic substrates, phosphines displace O2 via an associative process and added Cu(I) leads to a novel internal ligand oxidation to yield a Cu(II)-o-iminosemiquinone complex.
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Reactivity of a 1:1 copper-oxygen complex: isolation of a Cu(II)-o-iminosemiquinonato species
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Anne M Reynolds - University of Minnesota
Elizabeth A Lewis - University of Minnesota
Nermeen W Aboelella - University of Minnesota
William B Tolman - University of Minnesota
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Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), (15), pp.2014-2016