Several years’ worth of active efforts to understand vanadium-catalyzed catechol oxidase mimetic chemistry have finally paid off in full. In our most recent paper, entitled “Vanadium aminophenolates in catechol oxidation: conformity with Finke’s common catalyst hypothesis“, published in the RSC journal Dalton Transactions, and representing the pinnacle of these studies, we have been able to link vanadium-catalyzed catechol oxidase and catechol dioxygenase mimetic studies for the first time. The paper will make a great addition to Pasi’s PhD thesis, especially since the following study gives a nice closure to work already started at the MSc level!

The article, which can be found at doi: 10.1039/d1dt00419k, was so well received by the reviewers and editors, that it was not only added to the HOT article collection at Dalton Transactions, but also granted a place at the Front Cover of the current issue!

Cover art: Pasi Salonen & Anssi Peuronen