Mononuclear nonheme ferric-peroxo complex in aldehyde deformylation

Abstract

A mononuclear nonheme ferric-peroxo complex bearing a macrocyclic tetradentate N4 ligand, [(TMC)Fe III-O 2] +, was prepared and used in mechanistic studies of aldehyde deformylation; a catalytic aldehyde deformylation by a nonheme iron(II) complex, [Fe II(TMC)] 2+, and molecular oxygen is reported as well. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2005.