Just wanted to say the same. Though with the diamond occluding more than a hemisphere getting all the machinery in place to provide both the substrate and oxydation at the same time will run into severe steric problems.
Strong oxydation per see is quite possible if you look at e.g. Cyp P450.
I’m not a chemist, but the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_dehydrogenative_coupling looks like the most plausible approach, given the shortage of space. But as you say, that tends to require very strong oxidizing agents.
Just wanted to say the same. Though with the diamond occluding more than a hemisphere getting all the machinery in place to provide both the substrate and oxydation at the same time will run into severe steric problems.
Strong oxydation per see is quite possible if you look at e.g. Cyp P450.