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SUBMITTER: Xu N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2676163 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Nan N Campbell Adam L O AL Powell Douglas R DR Khandogin Jana J Richter-Addo George B GB
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20090201 7
The coupling of two nitric oxide (NO) molecules in heme active sites is an important contributor to the conversion of NO to nitrous oxide (N(2)O) by heme-containing enzymes. Several formulations for the presumed heme-Fe{N(2)O(2)}(n-) intermediates have been proposed previously, however, no crystal structures of heme-Fe{N(2)O(2)}(n-) systems have been reported to date. We report the first isolation and characterization of a stable bimetallic hyponitrite iron porphyrin, [(OEP)Fe](2)(mu-N(2)O(2)), ...[more]