Methyltrioxorhenium

Methyltrioxorhenium, usually abbreviated as MTO, was first synthesized in 1 979. However, the difficulties that accompanied this original synthesis pre vented a more detailed examination for nearly ten years. An efficient and s traightforward synthetic accessway, established in 1988, opened the door fo r the detailed examination of both the properties and the application of th e molecule. The second decade of MTO shows a nearly unprecedented story of success. An extremely broad field of applications in catalysis, especially in oxidation catalysis, has been established in laboratories all over the w orld and several related complexes, also applicable in various catalytic pr ocesses have been synthesized during the recent years.