[FeFe]-Hydrogenases: maturation and reactivity of enzymatic systems and overview of biomimetic models

JT Kleinhaus, F Wittkamp, S Yadav… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
While hydrogen plays an ever-increasing role in modern society, nature has utilized
hydrogen since a very long time as an energy carrier and storage molecule. Among the …

Principles and applications of EPR spectroscopy in the chemical sciences

MM Roessler, E Salvadori - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Electron spins permeate every aspect of science and influence numerous chemical
processes: they underpin transition metal chemistry and biochemistry, mediate …

Synthesis of diiron (I) dithiolato carbonyl complexes

Y Li, TB Rauchfuss - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Virtually all organosulfur compounds react with Fe (0) carbonyls to give the title complexes.
These reactions are reviewed in light of major advances over the past few decades, spurred …

Mechanism of Radical Initiation in the Radical S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Superfamily

WE Broderick, BM Hoffman… - Accounts of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The seeds for recognition of the vast superfamily of radical S-adenosyl-l-
methionine (SAM) enzymes were sown in the 1960s, when Joachim Knappe found that the …

[HTML][HTML] Unusual structures and unknown roles of FeS clusters in metalloenzymes seen from a resonance Raman spectroscopic perspective

G Caserta, L Zuccarello, C Barbosa, CM Silveira… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The universe of known biological FeS clusters is constantly enlarging. Besides the
conventional, well described [2Fe–2S],[3Fe–4S] and cubane [4Fe–4S] clusters, novel …

Fe (III) superoxide radicals in halloysite nanotubes for visible-light-assisted benzyl alcohol oxidation and oxidative CC coupling of 2-naphthol

MJ Baruah, TJ Bora, R Dutta, S Roy, AK Guha… - Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Selective oxidation of benzyl alcohols to aldehydes and 2-naphthol to BINOL was achieved
by activation of molecular oxygen (O 2) and hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) over an iron-oxide …

Biosynthesis of the metalloclusters of nitrogenases

Y Hu, MW Ribbe - Annual review of biochemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Nitrogenase is a versatile metalloenzyme that is capable of catalyzing two important
reactions under ambient conditions: the reduction of nitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3), a key …

Bioassembly of complex iron–sulfur enzymes: hydrogenases and nitrogenases

RD Britt, G Rao, L Tao - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Nature uses multinuclear metal clusters to catalyse a number of important multielectron
redox reactions. Examples that employ complex Fe–S clusters in catalysis include the Fe …

Biosynthesis of the catalytic H-cluster of [FeFe] hydrogenase: the roles of the Fe–S maturase proteins HydE, HydF, and HydG

RD Britt, G Rao, L Tao - Chemical science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
[FeFe] hydrogenases carry out the redox interconversion of protons and molecular hydrogen
(2H++ 2e−⇌ H2) at a complex Fe–S active site known as the H-cluster. The H-cluster …

Trapping and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Characterization of the 5′dAdo Radical in a Radical S-Adenosyl Methionine Enzyme Reaction with a Non-Native …

RI Sayler, TA Stich, S Joshi, N Cooper… - ACS central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
S-Adenosyl methionine (SAM) is employed as a [4Fe-4S]-bound cofactor in the superfamily
of radical SAM (rSAM) enzymes, in which one-electron reduction of the [4Fe-4S]-SAM moiety …