Molybdenum is the only second-row transition metal required by most living organisms, and
is nearly universally distributed in biology. Enzymes containing molybdenum in their active …

Chemical approaches toward the bioinorganic chemistry of molybdenum and tungsten
enzymes had been either biomimetic (structural modeling) or bioinspired (functional …

Bacterial polysulfide reductase (PsrABC) is an integral membrane protein complex
responsible for quinone-coupled reduction of polysulfide, a process important in extreme …

Polysulfides (Sx2−) are sulfide oxidation intermediates that are important for a variety of
environmentally relevant processes including pyrite formation, organic matter sulfidization …

Molybdenum and tungsten are heavy metallic elements, belonging to the sixth group of the
“d-block” of the periodic table, with electronic configurations [Kr] 4d5 5s1 and [Xe] 4f 14 5d4 …

Throughout the previous ten years many scientists took inspiration from natural molybdenum
and tungsten-dependent oxidoreductases to build functional active site analogues. These …

Recent characterisation of molybdenum and tungsten enzymes revealed novel structural
types of reaction centres, as well as providing new subjects of interest as synthetic chemical …

Molybdenum (VI) complexes of the general type Mo VI (L) 2 (E) O (L= 2-(arylsingle
bondNdouble bondCH)-pyrrolylato, E= O, N t Bu) and their relevance as bioinspired …

Inner sphere two-electron redox processes as represented by chalcogenido and imido
transfer reactions constitute one of the fundamental reaction types of transition metal …

The design of inorganic molecular complexes for the reversible conversion of formate into
CO2 inspired by formate dehydrogenase (FDH) enzymes is challenged by a lack of …