Dr. Farnum and Dr. Goldsmith published an article in Accounts of Chemical Research describing their efforts to use ligand tethered quinol groups in cooperativity with first-row metals to catalyze the transformations of O2, O2.-, and H2O2. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00645
This work has been going on for some time in the Goldsmith lab, focusing on mimicking the activity of superoxide dismutase and catalase enzymes. The recent collaboration between the Farnum and Goldsmith labs has focused on electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction.
The Farnum Group 