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Dalton Trans., 2009, 5820 - 5831, DOI: 10.1039/b904967c

Mechanisms of C–H bond activation: rich synergy between computation and experiment

Youcef Boutadla, David L. Davies, Stuart A. Macgregor and Amalia I. Poblador-Bahamonde

Recent computational studies of C–H bond activation at late transition metal systems are discussed and processes where lone pair assistance via heteroatom co-ligands or carboxylates are highlighted as a particularly promising means of cleaving C–H bonds. The term ambiphilic metal ligand activation (AMLA) is introduced to describe such reactions.

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