Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 12(50), p. 1408-1410
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc47830k
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A new iron complex mediates stereospecific hydroxylation of alkyl C-H bonds with hydrogen peroxide, exhibiting excellent efficiency. Isotope labelling studies provide evidence that the relative reactivity of tautomerically related oxo-iron species responsible for the C-H hydroxylation reaction is dominated by steric factors.