All cyanobacteria, algae, and plants use a similar water-oxidizing catalyst for water
oxidation. This catalyst is housed in Photosystem II, a membrane-protein complex that …

Striving for new solar fuels, the water oxidation reaction currently is considered to be a
bottleneck, hampering progress in the development of applicable technologies for the …

▪ Abstract Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) is an important mechanism for charge
transfer in a wide variety of systems including biology-and materials-oriented venues. We …

The essential involvement of manganese in photosynthetic water oxidation was implicit in
the observation by Pirson in 1937 that plants and algae deprived of Mn in their growth …

From an economic perspective, textile and paper bleaching are amongst the most important
oxidation processes. The removal of unwanted chromophores, be it stains on cloths or …

Metalloenzymes effect a variety of important chemical transformations, often involving small
molecule substrates or products such as molecular oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and water …

This review describes examples of remarkable acceleration of metal-catalyzed oxidation
reactions by certain additives. In some cases, reactions proceed 2 or 10 times more rapidly …

The role of metalloenzymes in important biological transformations has attracted increasing
attention over the past several decades. Of the many chemical transformations mediated by …

C–H bond activation/functionalization promoted by low-valent iron complexes has recently
emerged as a promising approach for the utilization of earth-abundant first-row transition …

Recognition of the involvement of manganese in biological redox chemistry began in 1970
with the discovery of manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD). 1 The importance of …