Perturbing the Copper(III)–Hydroxide Unit through Ligand Structural Variation or How to Really Annoy Copper(III)–Hydroxide with Pippi by Making the Activation Energy Heavier than a Log

Perturbing the Copper(III)–Hydroxide Unit through Ligand Structural Variation

or

How to Really Annoy Copper(III)–Hydroxide with Pippi by Making the Activation Energy Heavier than a Log

I read an alluring tweet today about a graphical abstract

Yo, anybody seen a see-saw yet in a graphical abstract? No. No. No. No. Well, let's just put an end to THAT, then! https://t.co/fGW3ATFxGp

— ErgodicOrNot (@ChemProfCramer) January 18, 2016

Well, I took the bait and here is what I saw:

 

Personally, it was much too simplified. Even if I had sparrho's new tool, it would take a bit of thinking for me to remember what the paper was about.


Because there is so much information that couldn't be captured in this graphical abstract (as there is in almost every graphical abstract), I decided to spruce it up a little by including references to the ligand(s), tunneling, hydrogen abstraction etc....

So Cu(III) hydroxide becomes terribly disappointed with the prospect of having to give up a hydrogen so easily. Pippi was always surprising!

References:

Perturbing the Copper(III)–Hydroxide Unit through Ligand Structural Variation

Debanjan Dhar, Gereon M. Yee, Andrew D. Spaeth, David W. Boyce, Hongtu Zhang, Büsra Dereli, Christopher J. Cramer, and William B. Tolman

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016 138 (1), 356-368

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b10985