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Nature Chemistry (24 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchem.80

Oxo complexes: Losing the stabilizers

Neil Withers

Oxygen is crucial to many biological and chemical processes, some of which involve transition metals. Terminal oxo complexes, with a single oxygen atom directly bonded to the metal, are believed to be key intermediates in reactions as important as the photocatalytic oxidation of water to evolve O2.