Principles of mononucleating and binucleating ligand design

AL Gavrilova, B Bosnich - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Although multimetallic complexes were known early in the development of modern
coordination chemistry, it is only over the past 30 years that special attention has been …

The catalytic mechanisms of binuclear metallohydrolases

N Mitić, SJ Smith, A Neves, LW Guddat… - Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Binuclear metallohydrolases are a structurally diverse group of enzymes that use binuclear
metal ion centers to catalyze the hydrolysis of amides and esters of carboxylic and …

Metal complexes of organophosphate esters and open-framework metal phosphates: synthesis, structure, transformations, and applications

R Murugavel, A Choudhury, MG Walawalkar… - Chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Phosphorus is a vital element both in living matter and in the Earth's crust. The human body
contains about 1% by weight of the element phosphorus, about 4/5 of this being present as …

Kinetics and equilibrium adsorption of Cu (II), Cd (II), and Ni (II) ions by chitosan functionalized with 2 [-bis-(pyridylmethyl) aminomethyl]-4-methyl-6-formylphenol

KC Justi, VT Fávere, MCM Laranjeira, A Neves… - Journal of colloid and …, 2005 - Elsevier
Chitosan biopolymer chemically modified with the complexation agent 2 [-bis-(pyridylmethyl)
aminomethyl]-4-methyl-6-formylphenol (BPMAMF) was employed to study the kinetics and …

Spectroscopic and mechanistic studies of dinuclear metallohydrolases and their biomimetic complexes

LJ Daumann, G Schenk, DL Ollis, LR Gahan - Dalton transactions, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
An enhanced understanding of the metal ion binding and active site structural features of
phosphoesterases such as the glycerophosphodiesterase from Enterobacter aerogenes …

Electronic Structure and Spectro-Structural Correlations of FeIIIZnII Biomimetics for Purple Acid Phosphatases: Relevance to DNA Cleavage and Cytotoxic Activity

RA Peralta, AJ Bortoluzzi, B de Souza, R Jovito… - Inorganic …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Purple acid phosphatases (PAPs) are a group of metallohydrolases that contain a dinuclear
FeIIIMII center (MII= Fe, Mn, Zn) in the active site and are able to catalyze the hydrolysis of a …

Binucleating hydrazonic ligands and their μ-hydroxodicopper (II) complexes as promising structural motifs for enhanced antitumor activity

JP Rada, BSM Bastos, L Anselmino… - Inorganic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Very few inorganic antineoplastic drugs have entered the clinic in the last decades, mainly
because of toxicity issues. Because copper is an essential trace element of ubiquitous …

New FeIIIZnII Complex Containing a Single Terminal Fe−Ophenolate Bond as a Structural and Functional Model for the Active Site of Red Kidney Bean Purple Acid …

M Lanznaster, A Neves, AJ Bortoluzzi… - Inorganic …, 2002 - ACS Publications
The new heterodinuclear complex [FeIIIZnII (BPBPMP)(OAc) 2] ClO4 (1) with the
unsymmetrical N5O2 donor ligand 2-bis [{(2-pyridylmethyl)-aminomethyl}-6-{(2 …

Accessing a synthetic Fe III Mn IV core to model biological heterobimetallic active sites

JL Lee, S Biswas, JW Ziller, EL Bominaar… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Metalloproteins with dinuclear cores are known to bind and activate dioxygen, with a
subclass of these proteins having active sites containing FeMn cofactors and activities …

Elucidating the roles of distinct chemical factors in the hydrolytic activities of hetero-and homonuclear synthetic analogues of binuclear metalloenzymes

VM Jayasinghe-Arachchige, LF Serafim, Q Hu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this study, hydrolytic activities of hetero-and homobinuclear metallovariants of an
asymmetric (I) or symmetric (II) ligand with the FeIII-ZnII, ZnII-ZnII, and CuII-CuII cores (ie …