Miguel Costas

Research interests

Publications

• Rational Design of Bioinspired Catalysts for Selective Oxidations

  ACS Catalysis · 2020 · 10.1021/acscatal.0c02073

• The Quest for Selectivity in Hydrogen Atom Transfer Based Aliphatic C–H Bond Oxygenation

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2018 · 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00231

• Oxidation of alkane and alkene moieties with biologically inspired nonheme iron catalysts and hydrogen peroxide: from free radicals to stereoselective transformations

  JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2017 · 10.1007/s00775-016-1434-z

• Chemoselective Aliphatic C–H Bond Oxidation Enabled by Polarity Reversal

  ACS Central Science · 2017 · 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00532

• Highly Enantioselective Oxidation of Nonactivated Aliphatic C–H Bonds with Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Manganese Complexes

  ACS Central Science · 2017 · 10.1021/acscentsci.6b00368

• Enantioselective Hydroformylation by a Rh-Catalyst Entrapped in a Supramolecular Metallocage

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2015 · 10.1021/ja512637k

• Trapping a Highly Reactive Nonheme Iron Intermediate That Oxygenates Strong C—H Bonds with Stereoretention

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2015 · 10.1021/jacs.5b09904

• Sponge-like molecular cage for purification of fullerenes

  Nature Communications · 2014 · 10.1038/ncomms6557

• Asymmetric Epoxidation with H2O2 by Manipulating the Electronic Properties of Non-heme Iron Catalysts

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2013 · 10.1021/ja4078446

• Efficient water oxidation catalysts based on readily available iron coordination complexes

  Nature Chemistry · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1140

• Observation of Fe(V)=O using variable-temperature mass spectrometry and its enzyme-like C–H and C=C oxidation reactions

  Nature Chemistry · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1132

• Nucleophilic Aryl Fluorination and Aryl Halide Exchange Mediated by a CuI/CuIII Catalytic Cycle

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2011 · 10.1021/ja2058567

• Selective C–H oxidation catalyzed by metalloporphyrins

  Coordination Chemistry Reviews · 2011 · 10.1016/j.ccr.2011.06.026

• Direct observation of CuI/CuIII redox steps relevant to Ullmann-type coupling reactions

  Chemical Science · 2010 · 10.1039/c0sc00245c

• Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Functionalization of an Arene C−H Bond: Evidence for an Aryl-Copper(III) Intermediate

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1045378

• Stereospecific CH Oxidation with H2O2 Catalyzed by a Chemically Robust Site‐Isolated Iron Catalyst

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2009 · 10.1002/anie.200901865

• Alkane Hydroxylation by a Nonheme Iron Catalyst that Challenges the Heme Paradigm for Oxygenase Action

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2007 · 10.1021/ja077761n

• Dioxygen Activation at Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Active Sites: Enzymes, Models, and Intermediates

  Chemical Reviews · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cr020628n

• An Fe IV O complex of a tetradentate tripodal nonheme ligand

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2003 · 10.1073/pnas.0636830100

• Copper(I)−Dioxygen Reactivity of [(L)CuI]+ (L = Tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine): Kinetic/Thermodynamic and Spectroscopic Studies Concerning the Formation of Cu−O2 and Cu2−O2 Adducts as a Function of Solvent Medium and 4-Pyridyl Ligand Substituent Variations

  Inorganic Chemistry · 2003 · 10.1021/ic0205684

• Ligand Topology Tuning of Iron-Catalyzed Hydrocarbon Oxidations We thank the National Institutes of Health for financial support (GM33162 to L.Q.) and Fundacio La Caixa for a postdoctoral fellowship (M.C.).

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2002 · 10.1002/1521-3773(20020617)41:12<2179::aid-anie2179>3.0.co;2-f

• Spin state tuning of non-heme iron-catalyzed hydrocarbon oxidations: participation of FeIII–OOH and FeVO intermediatesBased on the presentation given at Dalton Discussion No. 4, 10–13th January 2002, Kloster Banz, Germany.

  Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions · 2002 · 10.1039/b108629d

• Olefin Cis-Dihydroxylation versus Epoxidation by Non-Heme Iron Catalysts: Two Faces of an FeIII−OOH Coin

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0120025

• Modeling Rieske Dioxygenases: The First Example of Iron-Catalyzed Asymmetric cis-Dihydroxylation of Olefins

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2001 · 10.1021/ja015601k

• Biomimetic nonheme iron catalysts for alkane hydroxylation

  Coordination Chemistry Reviews · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0010-8545(00)00320-9

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