Dioxygen activation at mononuclear nonheme iron active sites: enzymes, models, and intermediates

M Costas, MP Mehn, MP Jensen, L Que - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
There have been significant advances in our understanding of mononuclear nonheme iron
oxygenases since our 1996 Chemical Reviews article, 1 promoted in large part by the many …

Unity in the biochemistry of the iron-storage proteins ferritin and bacterioferritin

K Honarmand Ebrahimi, PL Hagedoorn… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Life on earth is dependent on the catalytic activity of a number of different metal ions in their
polypeptide scaffold. Of these metals iron is widely used for catalysis of many reactions by …

End-on and side-on peroxo derivatives of non-heme iron complexes with pentadentate ligands: models for putative intermediates in biological iron/dioxygen chemistry

G Roelfes, V Vrajmasu, K Chen, RYN Ho… - Inorganic …, 2003 - ACS Publications
Mononuclear iron (III) species with end-on and side-on peroxide have been proposed or
identified in the catalytic cycles of the antitumor drug bleomycin and a variety of enzymes …

Bio-inspired mononuclear nonheme metal peroxo complexes: Synthesis, structures and mechanistic studies toward understanding enzymatic reactions

D Jeong, JS Valentine, J Cho - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Metalloenzymes utilize inexpensive and earth-abundant transition metal ions as important
co-factors to enable binding of a dioxygen molecule so that it can be used in various …

Speciation in iron epoxidation catalysis: A perspective on the discovery and role of non-heme iron (III)-hydroperoxo species in iron-catalyzed oxidation reactions

SM Hölzl, PJ Altmann, JW Kück, FE Kühn - Coordination Chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Oxidation reactions catalyzed by enzymes with central iron atoms are essential to life. The
nature of these systems has evoked great interest to understand and model their reactivity …

A Mononuclear Non-Heme Iron (III)–Peroxo Complex with an Unprecedented High O–O Stretch and Electrophilic Reactivity

W Zhu, S Jang, J Xiong, R Ezhov, XX Li… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A mononuclear non-heme iron (III)–peroxo complex,[Fe (III)(O2)(13-TMC)]+(1), was
synthesized and characterized spectroscopically; the characterization with electron …

Selective Formation of an FeIV O or an FeIII OOH Intermediate From Iron (II) and H2 O2: Controlled Heterolytic versus Homolytic Oxygen-Oxygen Bond Cleavage by …

K Cheaib, MQE Mubarak, K Sénéchal-David… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - hal.science
We demonstrate that the devised incorporation of an alkylamine group into the second
coordination sphere of an FeII complex allows to switch its reactivity with H2 O2 from the …

Selective Formation of an FeIVO or an FeIIIOOH Intermediate From Iron(II) and H2O2: Controlled Heterolytic versus Homolytic Oxygen–Oxygen Bond Cleavage by …

K Cheaib, MQE Mubarak… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate that the devised incorporation of an alkylamine group into the second
coordination sphere of an FeII complex allows to switch its reactivity with H2O2 from the …

Crystallographic snapshots of the reaction of aromatic C–H with O2 catalysed by a protein-bound iron complex

C Cavazza, C Bochot, P Rousselot-Pailley… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Chemical reactions inside single crystals are quite rare because crystallinity is difficult to
retain owing to atomic rearrangements. Protein crystals in general have a high solvent …

Kinetic and mechanistic studies of the reactions of transition metal-activated oxygen with inorganic substrates

A Bakac - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
The intermediates generated in the process of oxygen activation at metal centers participate
in hydrogen and oxygen atom transfer, electron transfer, substitution, acid–base chemistry …