Organometallic muons: baselining reactivity at iron carbonyls

The [FeFe]-hydrogenase enzymes are some of the best catalysts know for generating hydrogen.We have an ongoing programme to understand how their chemistry works, and to replicate the core 'active site' of the enzyme. However, understanding of the behaviour of simple iron carbonyls when reacted with muons is as-yet unexplored. Here, we seek to address this, as part of our wider study on the organometallic chemistry of muons at catalytically-important centres.