Journal of the American Chemical Society
by Christian M. Wallen, John Bacsa and Christopher C. Scarborough
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b10450
Metal(H2O2) complexes have been implicated in kinetic and computational studies but have never been observed. Accordingly, H2O2 has been described as a very weak ligand. We report the first metal(H2O2) adduct, which is made possible by incorporating intramolecular hydrogen-bonding interactions with bound H2O2. This ZnII(H2O2)
complex decays in solution by a second-order process that is slow
enough to enable characterization of this species by X-ray
crystallography. This report speaks to the intermediacy of metal(H2O2) adducts in chemistry and biology and opens the door to exploration of these species in oxidation catalysis.
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