Molybdenum and tungsten-containing enzymes: an overview

LB Maia, I Moura, JJG Moura - 2016 - books.rsc.org
Molybdenum and tungsten are heavy metallic elements, belonging to the sixth group of the
“d-block” of the periodic table, with electronic configurations [Kr] 4d5 5s1 and [Xe] 4f 14 5d4 …

The aerobic CO dehydrogenase from Oligotropha carboxidovorans

R Hille, S Dingwall, J Wilcoxen - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic …, 2015 - Springer
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AW/Cu synthetic model for the Mo/Cu cofactor of aerobic CODH indicates that biochemical CO oxidation requires a frustrated Lewis acid/base pair

D Ghosh, S Sinhababu, BD Santarsiero… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Constructing synthetic models of the Mo/Cu active site of aerobic carbon monoxide
dehydrogenase (CODH) has been a long-standing synthetic challenge thought to be crucial …

Countercations and Solvent Influence CO2 Reduction to Oxalate by Chalcogen-Bridged Tricopper Cyclophanates

BJ Cook, GN Di Francesco, KA Abboud… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
One-electron reduction of Cu3E L (L 3–= tris (β-diketiminate) cyclophane, and E= S, Se)
affords [Cu3E L]−, which reacts with CO2 to yield exclusively C2O42–(95% yield, TON= 24) …

Carbon monoxide. Toxic gas and fuel for anaerobes and aerobes: carbon monoxide dehydrogenases

JH Jeoung, J Fesseler, S Goetzl, H Dobbek - The metal-driven …, 2014 - Springer
Carbon monoxide (CO) pollutes the atmosphere and is toxic for respiring organisms
including man. But CO is also an energy and carbon source for phylogenetically diverse …

Sulfide and transition metals-A partnership for life

BK Maiti, LB Maia, JJG Moura - Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Sulfide and transition metals often came together in Biology. The variety of possible
structural combinations enabled living organisms to evolve an array of highly versatile metal …

Mo-and W-molecular catalysts for the H2 evolution, CO2 reduction and N2 fixation

DB Tran, TH To, PD Tran - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract (Photo) Electrochemical reduction of proton, CO 2 or N 2 is an attractive
technological approach for producing large scale of green-or low-carbon fuels like H 2 …

Electronic structure contributions to reactivity in xanthine oxidase family enzymes

BW Stein, ML Kirk - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2015 - Springer
We review the xanthine oxidase (XO) family of pyranopterin molybdenum enzymes with a
specific emphasis on electronic structure contributions to reactivity. In addition to xanthine …

Revisiting the catalytic mechanism of Mo–Cu carbon monoxide dehydrogenase using QM/MM and DFT calculations

K Xu, H Hirao - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Previous density functional theory (DFT) studies have shown that the release of the
produced carbon dioxide (CO2) from an active-site cluster is a thermodynamically or …