[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 …

[HTML][HTML] An unexpected leading role for [Fe2 (CO) 6 (μ-pdt)] in our understanding of [FeFe]-H2ases and the search for clean hydrogen production

G Hogarth - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract When Ziegler and Korav serendipitously prepared [Fe 2 (CO) 6 (μ-pdt)] in 1979 they
could not have anticipated that some 40 years later it would be a mainstay of attempts to …

Proton Shuttle Mediated by (SCH2)2P═O Moiety in [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Mimics: Electrochemical and DFT Studies

LR Almazahreh, F Arrigoni, H Abul-Futouh… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The synthesis, characterization, and protonation of [Fe2 (CO) 6 {(μ-SCH2) 2 (Et) P═ O}](1)
using the moderately strong acid CF3CO2H (p K aMeCN= 12.7) are reported. Digital …

[FeFe]-Hydrogenase H-cluster mimics mediated by naphthalene monoimide derivatives of peri-substituted dichalcogenides

H Abul-Futouh, Y Zagranyarski, C Müller… - Dalton …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthetic models of the active site of [FeFe]-hydrogenase containing naphthalene
monoimide (NMI) of peri-substituted dichalcogenides as bridging linkers have been …

[FeFe]-Hydrogenase H-Cluster Mimics with Various −S(CH2)nS– Linker Lengths (n = 2–8): A Systematic Study

H Abul-Futouh, LR Almazahreh, MK Harb… - Inorganic …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The effect of the nature of the dithiolato ligand on the physical and electrochemical
properties of synthetic H-cluster mimics of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase is still of significant …

Selenium makes the difference: protonation of [FeFe]-hydrogenase mimics with diselenolato ligands

H Abul-Futouh, M El-Khateeb, H Görls, KJ Asali… - Dalton …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthetic models of the active site of an [FeFe]-hydrogenase containing a Sn atom in the
bridgehead of the diselenato ligand, namely [Fe2 (CO) 6 {μ-(SeCH2Se) SnMe2}], 3 and [Fe2 …

Probing the performance of DFT in the structural characterization of [FeFe] hydrogenase models

P Matczak, P Buday, S Kupfer, H Görls… - Journal of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a series of DFT and DFT‐D methods is combined with double‐ζ basis sets to
benchmark their performance in predicting the structures of five newly synthesized …

Toward a tunable synthetic [FeFe]-hydrogenase H-cluster mimic mediated by perylene monoimide model complexes: Insight into molecular structures and …

H Abul-Futouh, A Skabeev, D Botteri… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The nature of the bridging dithiolate has an important role on tuning the physical and
electrochemical properties of the synthetic H-cluster mimics of [FeFe]-hydrogenase and still …

[FeFe]-hydrogenase H-cluster mimics mediated by ferrocenyl hetaryl thioketone derivatives

I Basma, H Abul-Futouh, SJ Abaalkhail… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this report, the influence of the substitution decoration in ferrocenyl selenophen-2-yl
thioketone (1) and ferrocenyl furan-2-yl thioketone (2) utilized as a proligand in …

Structural studies and electrochemical catalysis investigation of [FeFe]-hydrogenase H-cluster mimics mediated by monophosphane ligands

H Abul-Futouh, SJ Abaalkhail, MK Harb, H Goerls… - Polyhedron, 2021 - Elsevier
In this research work we present the reaction of the precursor complexes [Fe 2 (CO) 6 {μ-
(SeCH 2) 2 CMeR}](R= H (1) or Me (2)) with monophosphine/phosphane ligands, PPh 3 and …