Interaction of urea with a hydroxide-bridged dinuclear nickel center: an alternative model for the mechanism of urease

AM Barrios, SJ Lippard - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2000 - ACS Publications
A hydroxide-bridged dinuclear nickel complex with a urea molecule linking the two metal
ions through its carbonyl oxygen atom has been prepared as a model for the metalloenzyme …

Amide hydrolysis effected by a hydroxo-bridged dinickel (II) complex: Insights into the mechanism of urease

AM Barrios, SJ Lippard - Journal of the American Chemical …, 1999 - ACS Publications
A series of dinuclear nickel complexes,[Ni2 (H2O) 4 (bdptz)](OTs) 4,[Ni2 (OH)(H2O) 3
(bdptz)](OTs) 3, and [Ni2 (H2O)(OH) 2 (bdptz)] 2 (OTs) 4, where bdptz is the dinucleating …

Decomposition of alkyl-substituted urea molecules at a hydroxide-bridged dinickel center

AM Barrios, SJ Lippard - Inorganic Chemistry, 2001 - ACS Publications
The interactions between N-methylurea, N, N '-dimethylurea, N, N-dimethylurea,
tetramethylurea, and thiourea and the hydroxide-bridged dinickel complex [Ni2 (μ-OH)(μ …

Enzymatic catalysis of urea decomposition: elimination or hydrolysis?

G Estiu, KM Merz - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004 - ACS Publications
We present a high-level quantum chemical study of possible reaction mechanisms
associated with the catalytic decomposition of urea by a bioinorganic mimetic of the dinickel …

Paramagnetic NMR investigations of high-spin nickel (II) complexes. Controlled synthesis, structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of dinuclear vs mononuclear …

C Belle, C Bougault, MT Averbuch, A Durif… - Journal of the …, 2001 - ACS Publications
New dissymmetric tertiary amines (N3SR) with varying N/S donor sets have been
synthesized to provide mono-and dinuclear complexes. Acetate ions are used to complete …

Electron− nuclear double resonance spectroscopic evidence for a hydroxo-bridge nucleophile involved in catalysis by a dinuclear hydrolase

SK Smoukov, L Quaroni, X Wang… - Journal of the …, 2002 - ACS Publications
Despite the current availability of several crystal structures of purple acid phosphatases, to
date there is no direct evidence for solvent-derived ligands occupying terminal positions in …

Di-, tri-, and tetranuclear zinc hydroxamate complexes as structural models for the inhibition of zinc hydrolases by hydroxamic acids

DA Brown, NJ Fitzpatrick, H Müller-Bunz… - Inorganic …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Attempts to produce Zn analogues of the structural model complexes [M2 (μ-O2CR) 2
(O2CR) 2 (μ-H2O)(tmen) 2](M= Ni, Co, Mn; R= CH3, C (CH3) 3, CF3) by the reaction of a …

Structural investigations of palladium (II) and platinum (II) complexes of salicylhydroxamic acid

MD Hall, TW Failes, DE Hibbs, TW Hambley - Inorganic chemistry, 2002 - ACS Publications
Complexes of salicylhydroxamic acid (shaH) with palladium (II) and platinum (II) were
investigated. The synthesis of [Pt (sha) 2] was attempted via a number of methods, and …

Hydrolytically active tetranuclear nickel complexes with structural resemblance to the active site of urease

H Carlsson, M Haukka, E Nordlander - Inorganic chemistry, 2002 - ACS Publications
Reaction of the new asymmetric ligand 2-(N-isopropyl-N-((1-methylimidazolyl) methyl)
aminomethyl)-6-(N-carboxylmethyl-N-((1-methylimidazolyl) methyl) aminomethyl)-4 …

A DFT study of model complexes of zinc hydrolases and their inhibition by hydroxamic acids

DA Brown, LP Cuffe, NJ Fitzpatrick, ÁT Ryan - Inorganic chemistry, 2004 - ACS Publications
DFT calculations carried out on zinc acetate and zinc hydroxamates using the Hartree− Fock
and B3LYP methods with the 6-311+ G* basis set give a series of stable pseudotetrahedral …