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SUBMITTER: Mukherjee A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2864595 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Inorganic chemistry 20100401 8
Dioxygen (O(2)) activation by iron enzymes is responsible for many metabolically important transformations in biology. Often a high-valent iron oxo oxidant is proposed to form upon O(2) activation at a mononuclear nonheme iron center, presumably via intervening iron superoxo and iron peroxo species. While iron(IV) oxo intermediates have been trapped and characterized in enzymes and models, less is known of the putative iron(III) superoxo species. Utilizing a synthetic model for the 2-oxoglutarat ...[more]