Regiospecific Ligand Oxygenation in Iron Complexes of a Carboxylate‐Containing Ligand Mediated by a Proposed Fe^V–Oxo Species

Abstract

Mimicked: Through biomimetic iron activation of peroxides (H2O2 or tBuOOH), the shown N4O ligands in their iron(III) complexes can be oxygenated selectively at either an aromatic carbon atom or an aliphatic nitrogen atom. Supporting information for this article (syntheses and characterizations, full details of single-crystal X-ray analyses, list of structures considered for definition of average NO bond distance in coordinated N-oxides, ESI MS of 5-FeCl4⋅H2O and the N-oxygenation reaction mixture in H2O) is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2002/2006/z502656_s.pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.