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

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A new iron complex mediates stereospecific hydroxylation of alkyl C-H bonds with hydrogen peroxide, exhibiting excellent efficiency. Isotope labelling studies provide evidence that the relative reactivity of tautomerically related oxo-iron species responsible for the C-H hydroxylation reaction is dominated by steric factors

This work has been supported by the European Union (the Erasmus Mundus program), the International Research Training Group Metal Sites in Biomolecules: Structures, Regulation and Mechanisms (www.biometals.eu), and COST Action CM1003. M.C. acknowledges ERC-29910, MINECO of Spain for CTQ2012- 37420-C02-01/BQU and CSD2010-00065, catalan DIUE (2009SGR637) and an ICREA academia award. J.Ll. thanks MICINN for a RyC contract

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