Department Lecture Series: Minnesota Faculty
Thursday Sept. 6, 9:45 am, Smith 331

Dioxygen Activation by Monocopper Complexes

Novel copper-oxygen intermediates have been proposed for various catalytic processes performed by synthetic compounds and enzymes. We aim to prepare and characterize such species in order to gain fundamental insights into structure, bonding, and reactivity. In this lecture, recent results targeting monocopper-dioxygen complexes will be discussed, with an emphasis on the synergistic use of experiment and theory to unravel details of electronic structure and reaction mechanisms.