 Activation of Small Molecules: Organometallic and Bioinorganic Perspectives
ISBN: 978-3-527-31312-9
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January 2007
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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.
