Search Results - "Srnec, Martin"
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Beyond the classical thermodynamic contributions to hydrogen atom abstraction reactivity
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-10-2018)“…Hydrogen atom abstraction (HAA) reactions are cornerstones of chemistry. Various (metallo)enzymes performing the HAA catalysis evolved in nature and inspired…”
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M−O Bonding Beyond the Oxo Wall: Spectroscopy and Reactivity of Cobalt(III)‐Oxyl and Cobalt(III)‐Oxo Complexes
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (08-07-2019)“…Terminal oxo complexes of late transition metals are frequently proposed reactive intermediates. However, they are scarcely known beyond Group 8. Using mass…”
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Geometric and Electronic Structure Contributions to Function in Non-heme Iron Enzymes
Published in Accounts of chemical research (19-11-2013)“…Mononuclear non-heme Fe (NHFe) enzymes play key roles in DNA repair, the biosynthesis of antibiotics, the response to hypoxia, cancer therapy, and many other…”
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Experimentally Calibrated Analysis of the Electronic Structure of CuO+: Implications for Reactivity
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (21-12-2018)“…The CuO+ core is a central motif of reactive intermediates in copper‐catalysed oxidations occurring in nature. The high reactivity of CuO+ stems from a weak…”
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Computational Electrochemistry as a Reliable Probe of Experimentally Elusive Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Species
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (24-05-2018)“…Despite the growing number of reported FeIVO complexes, an unambiguous experimental characterization of their redox properties, such as one-electron reduction…”
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Experimental Evidence and Mechanistic Description of the Phenolic H‑Transfer to the Cu2O2 Active Site of oxy-Tyrosinase
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (16-10-2023)“…Tyrosinase is a ubiquitous coupled binuclear copper enzyme that activates O2 toward the regioselective monooxygenation of monophenols to catechols via a…”
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Elucidation of the Fe(iv)=O intermediate in the catalytic cycle of the halogenase SyrB2
Published in Nature (London) (18-07-2013)“…Synchrotron-based nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy is used to characterize the reactive Fe( iv )=O intermediate of the halogenase SyrB2; the…”
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π-Frontier molecular orbitals in S = 2 ferryl species and elucidation of their contributions to reactivity
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-09-2012)“…S = 2 Fe ᴵⱽ═O species are key intermediates in the catalysis of most nonheme iron enzymes. This article presents detailed spectroscopic and high-level…”
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Peroxide Activation for Electrophilic Reactivity by the Binuclear Non-heme Iron Enzyme AurF
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (24-05-2017)“…Binuclear non-heme iron enzymes activate O2 for diverse chemistries that include oxygenation of organic substrates and hydrogen atom abstraction. This process…”
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Reactivity of the Binuclear Non-Heme Iron Active Site of Δ9 Desaturase Studied by Large-Scale Multireference Ab Initio Calculations
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (12-11-2014)“…The results of density matrix renormalization group complete active space self-consistent field (DMRG-CASSCF) and second-order perturbation theory…”
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Proton-Electron Transfer to the Active Site Is Essential for the Reaction Mechanism of Soluble Δ9-Desaturase
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (10-06-2020)“…Full understanding of the catalytic action of non-heme iron (NHFe) and non-heme diiron (NHFe 2 ) enzymes is still beyond the grasp of contemporary…”
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On the Possibility of Uphill Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Multicopper Oxidases: Electrochemical and Quantum Chemical Study of Bilirubin Oxidase
Published in Electroanalysis (New York, N.Y.) (01-07-2012)“…The catalytic cycle of multicopper oxidases (MCOs) involves intramolecular electron transfer (IET) from the Cu‐T1 copper ion, which is the primary site of the…”
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Reduction Potentials and Acidity Constants of Mn Superoxide Dismutase Calculated by QM/MM Free-Energy Methods
Published in Chemphyschem (09-12-2011)“…We used two theoretical methods to estimate reduction potentials and acidity constants in Mn superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), namely combined quantum mechanical…”
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NRVS Studies of the Peroxide Shunt Intermediate in a Rieske Dioxygenase and Its Relation to the Native FeII O2 Reaction
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (25-04-2018)“…The Rieske dioxygenases are a major subclass of mononuclear nonheme iron enzymes that play an important role in bioremediation. Recently, a high-spin…”
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Reaction Mechanism of Manganese Superoxide Dismutase Studied by Combined Quantum and Molecular Mechanical Calculations and Multiconfigurational Methods
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (30-04-2009)“…Manganese superoxide dismutases (MnSODs) are enzymes that convert two molecules of the poisonous superoxide radical into molecular oxygen and hydrogen…”
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Effect of Spin−Orbit Coupling on Reduction Potentials of Octahedral Ruthenium(II/III) and Osmium(II/III) Complexes
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (20-08-2008)“…Reduction potentials of several M2+/3+ (M = Ru, Os) octahedral complexes, namely, [M(H2O)6]2+/3+, [MCl6]4−/3−, [M(NH3)6]2+/3+, [M(en)3]2+/3+ [M(bipy)3]2+/3+,…”
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Radical ligand transfer: mechanism and reactivity governed by three-component thermodynamics
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (05-06-2024)“…Here, we demonstrate that the relationship between reactivity and thermodynamics in radical ligand transfer chemistry can be understood if this chemistry is…”
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Structural and Spectroscopic Properties of the Peroxodiferric Intermediate of Ricinus communis Soluble Δ9 Desaturase
Published in Inorganic chemistry (05-03-2012)“…Large-scale quantum and molecular mechanical methods (QM/MM) and QM calculations were carried out on the soluble Δ9 desaturase (Δ9D) to investigate various…”
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Frontier Molecular Orbital Contributions to Chlorination versus Hydroxylation Selectivity in the Non-Heme Iron Halogenase SyrB2
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (15-02-2017)“…The ability of an FeIVO intermediate in SyrB2 to perform chlorination versus hydroxylation was computationally evaluated for different substrates that had…”
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Correction to “Computational Electrochemistry as a Reliable Probe of Experimentally Elusive Mononuclear Non-Heme Iron Species”
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (14-01-2021)Get full text
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