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New lead structures for olefin oxidation catalysts have been obtained from a combinatorial library of 5760 metal–ligand complexes (see the microscopy picture). Iron complexes led to clean epoxide product formation using H2O2 as the terminal oxidant. Parallel libraries were used to determine ligand features important for high catalytic activity and to identify enantioselective catalyst structures (see the Equation).
Francis et al. (Thu,) studied this question.