Oxygenative cleavage of catechols including protocatechuic acid with molecular oxygen in water catalysed by water-soluble non-heme iron (III) complexes in …

T Funabiki, D Sugio, N Inui, M Maeda…

Index: Funabiki, Takuzo; Sugio, Daisuke; Inui, Nobuhiko; Maeda, Matsutaka; Hitomi, Yutaka Chemical Communications, 2002 , # 5 p. 412 - 413

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Abstract

Catechol dioxygenases play key roles in the metabolism of various aromatic compounds, converting aromatics to aliphatics with insertion of molecular oxygen between a C–C bond of a benzene ring. Since the first example of cleavage of 3,5-di-tert-butylcatechol by a simple nonheme iron complex, 1–3 various types of functional models have been developed. 4–7 These model reactions have been performed exclusively in organic solvents such as acetonitrile. Because of ...