Journal article
Authors list: Schindler, S
Publication year: 2000
Pages: 2311-2326
Journal: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
Volume number: 2000
Issue number: 11
ISSN: 1434-1948
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
Abstract:
Efforts to model the reactions of copper enzymes with dioxygen with low molecular weight complexes have been quite successful during recent years. Guided by Nature, intriguing model systems for the active sites of such proteins have been developed, In the course of these investigations, it has been discovered that a whole variety of copper-dioxygen adducts form when simple copper(I) complexes are oxidized with dioxygen. The course of these reactions depends on the temperature, the Ligands present, and the solvent. The effects of these parameters (especially the effect of Ligand modification) on the reactivity of copper(I) complexes towards dioxygen are discussed in detail in this review.