A guide to secondary coordination sphere editing

MW Drover - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This tutorial review showcases recent (2015–2021) work describing ligand construction as it
relates to the design of secondary coordination spheres (SCSs). Metalloenzymes, for …

Synthetic Fe/Cu complexes: toward understanding heme-copper oxidase structure and function

SM Adam, GB Wijeratne, PJ Rogler, DE Diaz… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) are terminal enzymes on the mitochondrial or bacterial
respiratory electron transport chain, which utilize a unique heterobinuclear active site to …

Tunable σ-accepting, Z-type ligands for organometallic catalysis

D You, FP Gabbaï - Trends in Chemistry, 2019 - cell.com
Over the past decade, the chemistry of σ-accepting or Z-type ligands based on main group
elements has drawn renewed attention because of the realization that their interaction with a …

Intramolecular hydrogen bonding enhances stability and reactivity of mononuclear cupric superoxide complexes

M Bhadra, JYC Lee, RE Cowley, S Kim… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
[(L) CuII (O2•–)]+(ie, cupric-superoxo) complexes, as the first and/or key reactive
intermediates in (bio) chemical Cu-oxidative processes, including in the monooxygenases …

Iron-Catalyzed C–H Oxygenation Using Perchlorate Enabled by Secondary Sphere Hydrogen Bonds

W Sarkar, A LaDuca, JR Wilson… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Perchlorate (ClO4–) is a groundwater pollutant that is challenging to remediate. We report a
strategy to use Fe (II) tris (2-pyridylmethyl) amine (TPA) complexes featuring appended …

What Is the Right Level of Activation of a High-Spin {FeNO}7 Complex to Enable Direct N–N Coupling? Mechanistic Insight into Flavodiiron NO Reductases

HT Dong, S Camarena, D Sil, MO Lengel… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Flavodiiron nitric oxide reductases (FNORs), found in pathogenic bacteria, are capable of
reducing nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide (N2O) to detoxify NO released by the human …

Controlling the reactivity of a metal-hydroxo adduct with a hydrogen bond

AA Opalade, L Hessefort, VW Day… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The enzymes manganese lipoxygenase (MnLOX) and manganese superoxide dismutase
(MnSOD) utilize mononuclear Mn centers to effect their catalytic reactions. In the oxidized …

Tris (2-pyridylmethyl) amines as emerging scaffold in supramolecular chemistry

C Bravin, E Badetti, G Licini, C Zonta - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract tris-(2-Pyridylmethyl) amine (usually abbreviated as TPA or TPMA) are ligands
which are emerging in many fields of chemistry because of their ability to form stable and …

Theory Demonstrated a “Coupled” Mechanism for O2 Activation and Substrate Hydroxylation by Binuclear Copper Monooxygenases

P Wu, F Fan, J Song, W Peng, J Liu, C Li… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Multiscale simulations have been performed to address the longstanding issue of “dioxygen
activation” by the binuclear copper monooxygenases (PHM and DβM), which have been …

Sterically stabilized end-on superoxocopper (II) complexes and mechanistic insights into their reactivity with O–H, N–H, and C–H substrates

SY Quek, S Debnath, S Laxmi… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Instability of end-on superoxocopper (II) complexes, with respect to conversion to peroxo-
bridged dicopper (II) complexes, has largely constrained their study to very low …