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SUBMITTER: Hosseininasab V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385465 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20200417 27
S-Nitrosothiols (RSNOs) serve as air-stable reservoirs for nitric oxide in biology. While copper enzymes promote NO release from RSNOs by serving as Lewis acids for intramolecular electron-transfer, redox-innocent Lewis acids separate these two functions to reveal the effect of coordination on structure and reactivity. The synthetic Lewis acid B(C<sub>6</sub> F<sub>5</sub> )<sub>3</sub> coordinates to the RSNO oxygen atom, leading to profound changes in the RSNO electronic structure and reactivi ...[more]