Discrete transition-metal clusters with metal–metal or metal–oxygen–metal bonds represent
a new category of functional materials with numerous unusual properties. For instance, the …

Understanding the electronic structures of high‐valent metal complexes aids the
advancement of metal‐catalyzed cross coupling methodologies. A prototypical complex with …

Studies of multinuclear metal complexes are greatly enhanced by resonant diffraction
measurements, which probe X-ray absorption profiles of crystallographically independent …

Anomalous X-ray diffraction (AXD) and neutron diffraction can be used to
crystallographically distinguish between metals of similar electron density. Despite the use …

Copper clusters feature prominently in both metalloenzymes and synthetic nanoclusters that
mediate catalytic redox transformations of gaseous small molecules. Such reactions are …

Refining the anomalous dispersion parameters of the four uranium compounds NaUF5,
NaU2F9, Cs2 (UO2) TiO4, and Cs2 (UO2) Ti2O6 gave insights into the crystallographic …

Nitrogenases utilize Fe–S clusters to reduce N2 to NH3. The large number of Fe sites in their
catalytic cofactors has hampered spectroscopic investigations into their electronic structures …

Photosystem II (PSII) is a homodimeric protein complex that catalyzes water oxidation at the
oxygen-evolving complex (OEC), a heterocubanoid calcium–tetramanganese cluster. Here …

Mixed-valence complexes represent an enticing class of coordination compounds to
interrogate electron transfer confined within a molecular framework. The diamagnetic …

A pair of cyclophane-encapsulated [Cu3 (μ3-E)] 3+ complexes (E= S and Se) were
characterized by resonant X-ray diffraction anomalous fine structure (DAFS), revealing …