4. Mechanisms of C—H bond activation: rich synergy between computation and experiment
   Boutadla, Y.; Davies, D. L.; Macgregor, S. A.; Poblador-Bahamonde, A. I.
   Dalton Trans. 2009, 5820-5831

Recent computational studies of C–H bond activation at late transition metal systems are discussed and processes where lone pair assistance via heteroatom co-ligands or carboxylates are highlighted as a particularly promising means of cleaving C–H bonds. The term ‘ambiphilic metal ligand activation’ (AMLA) is introduced to describe such reactions.

DOI: 10.1039/b904967c 

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