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SUBMITTER: Schneider CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5934327 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20180501 37
A series of artificial metalloenzymes containing a ruthenium chromophore and [NiII(cyclam)]2+, both incorporated site-selectively, have been constructed within an azurin protein scaffold. These light-driven, semisynthetic enzymes do not evolve hydrogen, thus displaying complete selectivity for CO2 reduction to CO. Electrostatic effects rather than direct excited-state electron transfer dominate the ruthenium photophysics, suggesting that intramolecular electron transfer from photogenerated RuI t ...[more]