Publication Date:
1996-03-08
Description:
A key step in dioxygen evolution during photosynthesis is the oxidative generation of the O-O bond from water by a manganese cluster consisting of M2(mu-O)2 units (where M is manganese). The reverse reaction, reductive cleavage of the dioxygen O-O bond, is performed at a variety of dicopper and di-iron active sites in enzymes that catalyze important organic oxidations. Both processes can be envisioned to involve the interconversion of dimetal-dioxygen adducts, M2(O2), and isomers having M2(mu-O)2 cores. The viability of this notion has been demonstrated by the identification of an equilibrium between synthetic complexes having [Cu2(mu-eta2:eta2-O2)]2+ and [Cu2(mu-O)2]2+ cores through kinetic, spectroscopic, and crystallographic studies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Halfen, J A -- Mahapatra, S -- Wilkinson, E C -- Kaderli, S -- Young, V G Jr -- Que, L Jr -- Zuberbuhler, A D -- Tolman, W B -- GM33162/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM47365/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Mar 8;271(5254):1397-400.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8596910" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Chemistry, Physical
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Copper/*chemistry
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Heterocyclic Compounds/chemistry
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Organometallic Compounds/chemistry
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Oxygen/*chemistry
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Physicochemical Phenomena
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Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
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Spectrum Analysis, Raman
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Temperature
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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