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 …

Design of molecular water oxidation catalysts with earth-abundant metal ions

M Kondo, H Tatewaki, S Masaoka - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The four-electron oxidation of water (2H2O→ O2+ 4H++ 4e−) is considered the main
bottleneck in artificial photosynthesis. In nature, this reaction is catalysed by a Mn4CaO5 …

A general strategy for decoupled hydrogen production from water splitting by integrating oxidative biomass valorization

B You, X Liu, N Jiang, Y Sun - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conventional water electrolyzers produce H2 and O2 simultaneously, such that additional
gas separation steps are needed to prevent H2/O2 mixing. The sluggish anodic O2 …

Dioxygen activation by nonheme diiron enzymes: diverse dioxygen adducts, high-valent intermediates, and related model complexes

AJ Jasniewski, L Que Jr - Chemical Reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
A growing subset of metalloenzymes activates dioxygen with nonheme diiron active sites to
effect substrate oxidations that range from the hydroxylation of methane and the …

Heme and nonheme high-valent iron and manganese oxo cores in biological and abiological oxidation reactions

M Guo, T Corona, K Ray, W Nam - ACS Central Science, 2018 - ACS Publications
Utilization of O2 as an abundant and environmentally benign oxidant is of great interest in
the design of bioinspired synthetic catalytic oxidation systems. Metalloenzymes activate O2 …

The essential role of bond energetics in C–H activation/functionalization

XS Xue, P Ji, B Zhou, JP Cheng - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The most fundamental concepts in chemistry are structure, energetics, reactivity and their
inter-relationships, which are indispensable for promoting chemistry into a rational science …

Copper active sites in biology

EI Solomon, DE Heppner, EM Johnston… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
On the basis of its generally accessible I/II redox couple and bioavailability, copper plays a
wide variety of roles in nature that mostly involve electron transfer (ET), O 2 binding …

Iron and copper active sites in zeolites and their correlation to metalloenzymes

BER Snyder, ML Bols, RA Schoonheydt… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Metal-exchanged zeolites are a class of heterogeneous catalysts that perform important
functions ranging from selective hydrocarbon oxidation to remediation of NO x pollutants …

The active site of low-temperature methane hydroxylation in iron-containing zeolites

BER Snyder, P Vanelderen, ML Bols, SD Hallaert… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
An efficient catalytic process for converting methane into methanol could have far-reaching
economic implications. Iron-containing zeolites (microporous aluminosilicate minerals) are …

Catalytic mechanisms of Fe (II)-and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenases

S Martinez, RP Hausinger - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015 - ASBMB
Mononuclear non-heme Fe (II)-and 2-oxoglutarate (2OG)-dependent oxygenases comprise
a large family of enzymes that utilize an Fe (IV)-oxo intermediate to initiate diverse oxidative …