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Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2022 Jan 25;122(14):12207–12243. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00915

Table 1.

Binding motifs of N₂O with a binuclear Cu(I) center, the Cu···Cu distances of those motifs, and the activation energy for the formation of those motifs.

binding modes	Cu-Cu distance	activation energy
	3.45 Å	2 kcal/mol
	4.62 Å	> 60 kcal/mol
	5.36 Å	5 kcal/mol