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A History of Oxygen Activation: 1773–1993

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The Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Catalytic Oxidation

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Controlled partial oxidation of hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes and aromatics) is the single most important technology for converting petrochemical feedstocks to industrial organic chemicals [1]. For economic reasons, these processes predominantly involve the use of molecular oxygen (dioxygen) as the primary oxidant. The success of these processes depends largely on the use of metal catalysts to promote both the rate of reaction and the selectivity to partial oxidation products. Both gas phase and liquid phase oxidations, employing heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts, respectively, are practiced industrially. In biological systems a broad range of selective oxidations of hydrocarbon substrates by dioxygen are catalyzed by metalloenzymes, appropriately known as oxygenases [2,3]. A common feature of most of these processes is the involvement of a multivalent transition metal ion.

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Sheldon, R.A. (1993). A History of Oxygen Activation: 1773–1993. In: Barton, D.H.R., Martell, A.E., Sawyer, D.T. (eds) The Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Catalytic Oxidation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3000-8_2

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