The biologically relevant coordination chemistry of iron and nitric oxide: electronic structure and reactivity

N Lehnert, E Kim, HT Dong, JB Harland… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of
physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially …

Phosphate ester hydrolysis: metal complexes as purple acid phosphatase and phosphotriesterase analogues

LR Gahan, SJ Smith, A Neves… - European journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This microreview describes the structures and properties of a number of bimetallic
complexes designed as both structural and functional mimics of the active sites of some …

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 …

Ammonium-bearing dinuclear copper (II) complex: a highly selective and sensitive colorimetric probe for pyrophosphate

W Yu, J Qiang, J Yin, S Kambam, F Wang, Y Wang… - Organic …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Two dinuclear copper complexes with and without ammonium moieties were synthesized.
The complexes exhibited selective binding affinity to pyrophosphate in aqueous solution …

Non-Heme Diiron Model Complexes Can Mediate Direct NO Reduction: Mechanistic Insight into Flavodiiron NO Reductases

HT Dong, CJ White, B Zhang, C Krebs… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Flavodiiron nitric oxide reductases (FNORs), a common enzyme family found in various
types of pathogenic bacteria, are capable of reducing nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide …

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 …

Magnetostructural correlations in exchange coupled phenoxo-, alkoxo-, and hydroxo-bridged dinuclear iron (III) compounds

R Werner, S Ostrovsky, K Griesar, W Haase - Inorganica chimica acta, 2001 - Elsevier
A new semi-empirical magnetostructural correlation for exchange coupled dinuclear
asymmetrically phenoxo-, alkoxo-, and hydroxo-bridged iron (III) complexes has been …

Influence of ligand rigidity and ring substitution on the structural and electronic behavior of trivalent iron and gallium complexes with asymmetric tridentate ligands

C Imbert, HP Hratchian, M Lanznaster… - Inorganic …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Species 1− 6 are [MIII (L) 2] ClO4 complexes formed with the PhO-− CH N− CH2− Py
imines,(LI)-and (L tBuI)-, and PhO-− CH2− NH− CH2− Py amines,(LA)-and (L tBuA)-, in …

A new heterobinuclear FeIIICuII complex with a single terminal FeIII–O(phenolate) bond. Relevance to purple acid phosphatases and nucleases

M Lanznaster, A Neves, AJ Bortoluzzi… - JBIC Journal of …, 2005 - Springer
A novel heterobinuclear mixed valence complex [Fe III Cu II (BPBPMP)(OAc) 2] ClO 4, 1,
with the unsymmetrical N 5 O 2 donor ligand 2-bis [{(2-pyridylmethyl) aminomethyl}-6-{(2 …

Unsymmetrical FeIIICoII and GaIIICoII Complexes as Chemical Hydrolases: Biomimetic Models for Purple Acid Phosphatases (PAPs)

FR Xavier, A Neves, A Casellato, RA Peralta… - Inorganic …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The design and development of suitable biomimetic catalytic systems capable of mimicking
the functional properties of enzymes continues to be a challenge for bioinorganic chemists …