The biologically relevant coordination chemistry of iron and nitric oxide: electronic structure and reactivity

N Lehnert, E Kim, HT Dong, JB Harland… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of
physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially …

Surface chemistry of porphyrins and phthalocyanines

JM Gottfried - Surface Science Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
This review covers the surface chemistry of porphyrins, phthalocyanines, their metal
complexes, and related compounds, with particular focus on chemical reactions at …

Reversing nitrogen fixation

N Lehnert, HT Dong, JB Harland, AP Hunt… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
The nitrogen cycle is one of the most important biogeochemical cycles on Earth because
nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all life forms. To supplement natural nitrogen fixation …

Non-innocent ligands in bioinorganic chemistry—An overview

W Kaim, B Schwederski - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
This review touches the most common instances where non-innocent (“suspect”) behaviour
of redox-active ligands, either substrates or supporting components, is observed in a …

How biology handles nitrite

LB Maia, JJG Moura - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nitrite is one of the players in the broad nitrogen biogeochemical cycle. This nitrogen oxo-
anion is involved in key pathways crucial to life on Earth and to the planetary “recycling” of …

Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of NO to NH3 by Iron Porphyrins at Physiologically Relevant Potentials

P Saha, S Barman, S Amanullah, A Dey - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO), a toxic gas, is a key intermediate in the global nitrogen cycle that may be
reduced to produce NH3. However, there are few molecular catalysts which can catalyze …

Mono-and dinuclear non-heme iron–nitrosyl complexes: Models for key intermediates in bacterial nitric oxide reductases

TC Berto, AL Speelman, S Zheng, N Lehnert - Coordination Chemistry …, 2013 - Elsevier
High-spin non-heme iron–nitrosyls are of direct interest to both the chemical and biological
communities as these species exhibit interesting chemical properties and act as direct …

Electronic structure of heme-nitrosyls and its significance for nitric oxide reactivity, sensing, transport, and toxicity in biological systems

LE Goodrich, F Paulat, VKK Praneeth… - Inorganic …, 2010 - ACS Publications
This review summarizes recent developments in the investigation of the electronic
structures, spectroscopic properties, and reactivities of ferrous and ferric heme-nitrosyls and …

Heme-nitrosyls: electronic structure implications for function in biology

AP Hunt, N Lehnert - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The question of why mammalian systems use nitric oxide (NO), a potentially
hazardous and toxic diatomic, as a signaling molecule to mediate important functions such …

CO, NO and O2 as vibrational probes of heme protein interactions

TG Spiro, AV Soldatova, G Balakrishnan - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
The gaseous XO molecules (X= C, N or O) bind to the heme prosthetic group of heme
proteins, and thereby activate or inhibit key biological processes. These events depend on …