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Activation of Small Molecules: Organometallic and Bioinorganic Perspectives
ISBN: 978-3-527-31312-9
Hardcover
382 pages
January 2007
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  • Table of Contents
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Preface.

List of Contributors.

1 Carbon Dioxide Reduction and Uses as a Chemical Feedstock (Michele Aresta).

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Properties of the CO2 Molecule.

1.3 CO2 Coordination to Metal Centers and Reactivity of Coordinated
CO2.

1.4 CO2 Conversion.

1.5 Conclusions.

References.

2 Nitrogen Monoxide and Nitrous Oxide Binding and Reduction (Dong-Heon Lee, Biplab Mondal, and Kenneth D. Karlin).

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 NO.

2.3 N2O.

2.4 Summary and Conclusions.

References.

3 Bio-organometallic Approaches to Nitrogen Fixation Chemistry (Jonas C. Peters and Mark P. Mehn).

3.1 Introduction – The N2 Fixation Challenge.

3.2 Biological N2 Reduction.

3.3 Biomimetic Systems that Model Structure and Function.

3.4 Concluding Remarks.

References.

4 The Activation of Dihydrogen (Jesse W. Tye and Michael B. Hall).

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Structure and Bonding of Metal-bound H-Atoms.

4.3 Intramolecular H-Atom Exchange.

4.4 Nonclassical H-Bonds.

4.5 Reactivity of Metal-bound H-Atoms.

4.6 Recent Advances in the Activation of Dihydrogen by Synthetic Complexes.

4.7 Enzymatically Catalyzed Dihydrogen Oxidation and Proton Reduction.

4.8 Conclusions.

Acknowledgments.

Abbreviations.

References.

5 Molecular Oxygen Binding and Activation: Oxidation Catalysis (Candace N. Cornell and Matthew S. Sigman).

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Additive Coreductants.

5.3 Ligand-modified Catalysis.

5.4 Conclusions and Outlook.

References.

6 Dioxygen Binding and Activation: Reactive Intermediates (Andrew S. Borovik, Paul J. Zinn and Matthew K. Zart).

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Dioxygen Binders.

6.3 Reactive Intermediates: Iron and Copper Species.

6.4 Cobalt–Dioxygen Complexes.

6.5 Manganese–Dioxygen Complexes.

6.6 Nickel–Dioxygen Complexes and Their Reactive Intermediates.

6.7 Summary.

Acknowledgments.

References.

7 Methane Functionalization (Brian Conley, William J. Tenn, III, Kenneth J.H. Young, Somesh Ganesh, Steve Meier, Jonas Oxgaard, Jason Gonzales, William A. Goddard, III, and Roy A. Periana).

7.1 Methane as a Replacement for Petroleum.

7.2 Low Temperature is Key to Economical Methane Functionalization.

7.3 CH Activation as a Pathway to Economical Methane Functionalization via CH Hydroxylation.

7.4 Conclusions and Perspective for Methane Functionalization.

References.

8 Water Activation: Catalytic Hydrolysis (Lisa M. Berreau).

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Water Activation: Coordination Sphere Effects on M-OH2 Acidity and Structure.

8.3 Secondary H-Bonding Effects on Substrate Coordination, Activation and Catalytic Hydrolysis Involving Phosphate Esters.

8.4 Summary and Future Directions.

References.

9 Carbon Monoxide as a Chemical Feedstock: Carbonylation Catalysis (Piet W.N.M. van Leeuwen and Zoraida Freixa).

9.1 Introduction.

9.2 Rhodium-catalyzed Hydroformylation.

9.3 Methanol Carbonylation.

9.4 Concluding Remarks.

References.

Subject Index.