The expanding utility of iron-sulfur clusters: Their functional roles in biology, synthetic small molecules, maquettes and artificial proteins, biomimetic materials, and …

AE Boncella, ET Sabo, RM Santore, J Carter… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ubiquity, structural variation, and functional diversity of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters in
biological environments has long fascinated scientists. In nature, Fe-S clusters form a variety …

Activation of unsaturated small molecules by bio-relevant multinuclear metal-sulfur clusters

K Tanifuji, S Ohta, Y Ohki, H Seino - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The high affinity of sulfur (S) for transition metal ions (M), as well as the flexible M− S
bonding and bridging modes, enable the formation of a wide range of multi-metallic …

Three-coordinate nickel and metal–metal interactions in a heterometallic iron–sulfur cluster

DWN Wilson, MS Fataftah, Z Mathe… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Biological multielectron reactions often are performed by metalloenzymes with
heterometallic sites, such as anaerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (CODH), which …

High-Spin [FeI3] Cluster Capable of Pnictogen Atom Capture

TP Latendresse, NP Litak, JS Zeng… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Using a new hexanucleating anildophosphine ligand t BuLH3 (1, 3, 5-C6H9 (NHC6H3–5-F–
2-P (t Bu) 2) 3), the all-monovalent [FeI3] compound (t BuL) Fe3 (1) was isolated and …

Mechanism of Radical S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Adenosylation: Radical Intermediates and the Catalytic Competence of the 5′-Deoxyadenosyl Radical

MN Lundahl, R Sarksian, H Yang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM) enzymes employ a [4Fe–4S] cluster and SAM to
initiate diverse radical reactions via either H-atom abstraction or substrate adenosylation …

Terminal Hydride Complex of High-Spin Mn

A Drena, A Fraker, NB Thompson… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The iron–molybdenum cofactor of nitrogenase (FeMoco) catalyzes fixation of N2 via Fe
hydride intermediates. Our understanding of these species has relied heavily on the …

Exploiting molecular symmetry to quantitatively map the excited-state landscape of iron–sulfur clusters

BA Skeel, DLM Suess - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cuboidal [Fe4S4] clusters are ubiquitous cofactors in biological redox chemistry. In the
[Fe4S4] 1+ state, pairwise spin coupling gives rise to six arrangements of the Fe valences …

Pyruvate formate-lyase activating enzyme: The catalytically active 5′-deoxyadenosyl radical caught in the act of H-atom abstraction

MN Lundahl, H Yang, WE Broderick… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Enzymes of the radical S-adenosyl-l-methionine (radical SAM, RS) superfamily, the largest
in nature, catalyze remarkably diverse reactions initiated by H-atom abstraction. Glycyl …

A terminal imido complex of an iron–sulfur cluster

A Sridharan, AC Brown, DLM Suess - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We report the synthesis and characterization of the first terminal imido complex of an Fe–S
cluster,(IMes) 3Fe4S4= NDipp (2; IMes= 1, 3‐dimesitylimidazol‐2‐ylidene, Dipp= 2, 6 …

Electronic isomerism in a heterometallic nickel–iron–sulfur cluster models substrate binding and cyanide inhibition of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase

LC Lewis, JA Sanabria-Gracia, Y Lee, AJ Jenkins… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The nickel–iron carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (CODH) enzyme uses a heterometallic
nickel–iron–sulfur ([NiFe4S4]) cluster to catalyze the reversible interconversion of carbon …