Small-molecule models of tyrosinase: From ligand hydroxylation to catalytic monooxygenation of external substrates

JN Hamann, B Herzigkeit, R Jurgeleit… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
The reactivities of tyrosinase and catechol oxidase have been of continued interest during
the last decades. To gain mechanistic insights into the conversion of mono-and diphenols by …

Metal-catalysed reactions enabled by guanidine-type ligands

XY Cui, CH Tan, D Leow - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Guanidines, which exist widely in nature, have been frequently utilised as strong Brønsted
bases in organic chemistry. As ligands, guanidines can have different coordination modes …

Factors That Control C–C Cleavage versus C–H Bond Hydroxylation in Copper-Catalyzed Oxidations of Ketones with O2

ASK Tsang, A Kapat… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The Cu-catalyzed oxidation of ketones with O2 has recently been extensively utilized to
cleave the α-C–C bond. This report examines the selective aerobic hydroxylation of tertiary α …

Catching an entatic state—a pair of copper complexes

A Hoffmann, S Binder, A Jesser… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The structures of two types of guanidine–quinoline copper complexes have been
investigated by single‐crystal X‐ray crystallography, K‐edge X‐ray absorption spectroscopy …

Exceptional Substrate Diversity in Oxygenation Reactions Catalyzed by a Bis (μ‐oxo) Copper Complex

M Paul, M Teubner, B Grimm‐Lebsanft… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The enzyme tyrosinase contains a reactive side‐on peroxo dicopper (II) center as
catalytically active species in C− H oxygenation reactions. The tyrosinase activity of the …

Efficient biomimetic hydroxylation catalysis with a bis (pyrazolyl) imidazolylmethane copper peroxide complex

C Wilfer, P Liebhäuser, A Hoffmann… - … A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Bis (pyrazolyl) methane ligands are excellent components of model complexes used to
investigate the activity of the enzyme tyrosinase. Combining the N donors 3‐tert …

Insights into the influence of dispersion correction in the theoretical treatment of guanidine‐quinoline copper (I) complexes

A Hoffmann, R Grunzke… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
For the description of steric effects, dispersion correction is important in density functional
theory. By investigation of sterically encumbered guanidine‐quinoline copper bis (chelate) …

A layered 2D triaminoguanidine–glyoxal polymer and its transition metal complexes as novel insensitive energetic nanomaterials

QL Yan, A Cohen, AK Chinnam, N Petrutik… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A new member of the 2D carbon–nitrogen-rich family of nanomaterials was synthesized by
polycondensation of triamino-guanidine hydrochloride with glyoxal. The obtained polymer …

Ligands with two monoanionic N, N‐binding sites: synthesis and coordination chemistry

R Kretschmer - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Polytopic ligands have become ubiquitous in coordination chemistry because they grant
access to a variety of mono‐and polynuclear complexes of transition metals as well as rare …

A Halide‐Induced Copper (I) Disulfide/Copper (II) Thiolate Interconversion

A Neuba, R Haase, W Meyer‐Klaucke… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Shortly after their discovery as protein active sites, copper sulfur complexes entered the
stage of modern synthetic coordination chemistry.[1] In this respect, the combination of …