Electronic structures of metal sites in proteins and models: contributions to function in blue copper proteins

EI Solomon, RK Szilagyi, S DeBeer George… - Chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Approximately one-half of all known protein crystal structures in the protein data bank (PDB)
contain metal ion cofactors, which play vital roles in charge neutralization, structure, and …

Synthetic analogues of cysteinate-ligated non-heme iron and non-corrinoid cobalt enzymes

JA Kovacs - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Non-heme iron enzymes promote a number of important biological reactions, including
serotonin, 1 leukotreine, 2 and DNA3 synthesis. Most mononuclear non-heme iron enzymes …

Self-consistent-field calculations of core excited states

NA Besley, ATB Gilbert, PMW Gill - The Journal of chemical physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The accuracy of core excitation energies and core electron binding energies computed
within a Δ self-consistent-field framework is assessed. The variational collapse of the core …

Blue copper model complexes with distorted tetragonal geometry acting as effective electron-transfer mediators in dye-sensitized solar cells

S Hattori, Y Wada, S Yanagida… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The electron self-exchange rate constants of blue copper model complexes,[(−)-sparteine-N,
N '](maleonitriledithiolato-S, S ') copper ([Cu (SP)(mmt)]) 0/-, bis (2, 9-dimethy-1, 10 …

Nature of the Intermediate Formed in the Reduction of O2 to H2O at the Trinuclear Copper Cluster Active Site in Native Laccase

SK Lee, SDB George, WE Antholine… - Journal of the …, 2002 - ACS Publications
The multicopper oxidases contain at least four copper atoms and catalyze the four-electron
reduction of O2 to H2O at a trinuclear copper cluster. An intermediate, termed native …

L-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy of non-heme iron sites: experimental determination of differential orbital covalency

EC Wasinger, FMF De Groot, B Hedman… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
X-ray absorption spectroscopy has been utilized to obtain the L-edge multiplet spectra for a
series of non-heme ferric and ferrous complexes. Using these data, a methodology for …

Time-dependent density functional theory calculations of near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure with short-range corrected functionals

NA Besley, MJG Peach, DJ Tozer - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
We report calculations of core excitation energies and near-edge X-ray absorption fine
structure (NEXAFS) spectra computed with time-dependent density functional theory …

Spectroscopic and DFT Investigation of [M{HB(3,5-iPr2pz)3}(SC6F5)] (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) Model Complexes:  Periodic Trends in Metal−Thiolate …

SI Gorelsky, L Basumallick, J Vura-Weis… - Inorganic …, 2005 - ACS Publications
A series of metal-varied [ML (SC6F5)] model complexes (where L= hydrotris (3, 5-
diisopropyl-1-pyrazolyl) borate and M= Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) related to blue copper …

Efficient and automatic calculation of optical band shapes and resonance Raman spectra for larger molecules within the independent mode displaced harmonic …

T Petrenko, F Neese - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, an improved method for the efficient automatic simulation of optical band
shapes and resonance Raman (rR) intensities within the “independent mode displaced …

Spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of the trinuclear Cu cluster active site of the multicopper oxidase laccase: nature of its coordination unsaturation

L Quintanar, J Yoon, CP Aznar, AE Palmer… - Journal of the …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Laccase is a multicopper oxidase that contains four Cu ions, one type 1 (T1), one type 2
(T2), and a coupled binuclear type 3 Cu pair (T3). The T2 and T3 centers form a trinuclear …