Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 24(51), p. 5032-5035, 2015
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc00411j
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N-demethylation of N,N-dimethylanilines promoted by [(N4Py)Fe(IV)[double bond, length as m-dash]O](2+) occurs by an electron transfer-proton transfer (ET-PT) mechanism with a rate determining PT step. From the bell-shaped curve of the KDIE profile it has been estimated that the pKa of [(N4Py)Fe(III)-OH](2+) is 9.7.