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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2007 Jun 29;129(29):9049–9065. doi: 10.1021/ja070909i

Scheme 2.

Scheme 2

Possible O2 cleavage pathways to generate the high-valent intermediate X. (Top) proton-triggered and (Bottom) non proton-triggered. Both pathways derive one electron from an exogenous source and the other electron from the remote Fe.