Stoichiometric aerobic PtII-Me bond cleavage in aqueous solutions to produce methanol and a PtII(OH) complex.
Di(2-pyridyl)methanesulfonate ligand allows for facile aerobic oxidation of a PtIIMe complex into PtIVMe(OH)2 species and clean C-O reductive elimination of methanol from the latter in either acidic or basic aqueous solutions.
Vedernikov
Andrei N
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. avedemi@umd.edu
Binfield
Seth A
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Zavalij
Peter Y
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Khusnutdinova
Julia R
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