Bioinorganic Catalysis

2. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8247-0241-0
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 628 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 952 g

"Provides the latest research results and suggests new topics for interdisciplinary study of metal ions, catalysis, and biochemical systems. Second Edition highlights potential applications; includes new chapters on zinc and FeS clusters; presents new X-ray analysis of metalloenzymes; and more."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reedijk, Jan

Bouwman, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie Chemische Reaktionen, Katalyse
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biochemie (nichtmedizinisch)
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Anorganische Chemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to bioinorganic chemistry; introduction to homogeneous catalysis; relationships between enzymatic and heterogeneous catalysis; Lewis acid properties of zinc and its development to phosphotriester detoxifying agents; vanadiumhaloperoxidases; molybdenum and tungsten enzymes; catalysis by nitrogenases and synthetic analogues; biological iron-sulfur clusters with catalytic activity; catalysis by nickel in biological systems; oxygen activation at Nonheme iron centres; dioxygenactivation at Heme centres in enzymes and synthetic analogues; biological and biomimetric catalysis of manganese redox enzymes and their inorganic models; the two B12 cofactors - influence of the trans nitrogen ligand on homolytic and heterolyticprocesses; formation, structure, and reactivity of copper dioxygen complexes; multielectron transfer and catalytic mechanisms in oxidative polymerization; metalloenzymes with a quinone cofactor; future developments.

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Reedijk (Leiden University, the Netherlands) (Edited by), Elisabeth Bouwman (Leiden University, the Netherlands) (Edited by)