The phenol ortho-oxygenation by mononuclear copper(I) complexes requires a dinuclear mu-eta2:eta2-peroxodicopper(II) complex rather than mononuclear CuO2 species.
The mononuclear complex [Cu(L)]+ performs the ortho-oxygenation of an exogeneous phenol through the formation of a dinuclear mu-eta2:eta2-peroxodicopper(II) intermediate, which is so far the only type of copper-dioxygen complex that mediates the tyrosinase monophenolase reaction.
Battaini
Giuseppe
G
Dipartimento di Chimica Generale, Università di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
De Carolis
Marco
M
Monzani
Enrico
E
Tuczek
Felix
F
Casella
Luigi
L