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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: Inorg Chem. 2010 Apr 5;49(7):3531–3539. doi: 10.1021/ic100032n

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Proposed mechanism for the metal mediated oxidative decarboxylation of an α-ketocarboxylate utilizing O2 (M = Fe, n = 2, or M = Cu, n = 1; S = substrate; R = alkyl or aryl group).