Tetra-amido macrocyclic ligand

Tetra-amido macrocyclic ligands (TAMLs) constitute a class of macrocyclic ligands. When complexed to metals, TAMLs are proposed as environmentally friendly catalysts. Although never commercialized, iron-TAML complexes catalyze the degradation of pesticides, effluent streams from paper mills, dibenzothiophenes from diesel fuels, and anthrax spores.[1]

Structure of an Fe-TAML complex.

References
  1. Collins, T. J. (2002), "TAML oxidant activators: a new approach to the activation of hydrogen peroxide for environmentally significant problems", Accounts of Chemical Research, 35 (9): 782–790, doi:10.1021/ar010079s, PMID 12234208
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