Bisulfate as a redox-active ligand in vanadium-based electrocatalysis for CH₄functionalization

Abstract

The roles of the unforgiving H2SO4 solvent in CH4 activation with molecular catalysts have not been experimentally well-illustrated despite computational predictions. Here we provide experimental evidence that metal-bound bisulfate ligand...

Reactivity of metal dioxo complexes

“…While not explicitly a monometallic dioxo complex, another notable example of C-H activation by V-O bonds has been reported by Liu and coworkers. [10][11][12] In these reports, the vanadium oxo source is a precatalyst. The active form of the catalyst is believed to be a vanadium oxo bridged dimer bearing terminal sulfate groups.…”