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Millifluidics for Chemical Synthesis and Time-resolved Mechanistic Studies
Published on: November 27, 2013
Catalytic and stoichiometric flavanone oxidation mediated by nonheme oxoiron(iv) complexes as flavone synthase
Ramona Turcas1, Balázs Kripli, Amr A A Attia
1Department of Chemistry, University of Pannonia, H-8201 Veszprém, Hungary. kaizer@almos.vein.hu.
Abstract:
The present study describes the first example of the stoichiometric and catalytic oxidation of flavanone by synthetic nonheme oxoiron(iv) complexes and their precursor iron(ii) complexes with m-CPBA as the terminal oxidant. These models, including detailed kinetic, mechanistic and computational studies, may serve as the biomimics of flavone synthase (FS) enzymes.
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