Distortion Pathways of Transition Metal Coordination Polyhedra Induced by Chelating Topology

Distortion parameters for coordination polyhedra

Fins. I and z: FIG. I (left). Calculated mean quadratic elongation (h)-bond angle variance (~) distributions for four ideal types of distortion in coordination octahedra arising from the progressive shortening of the octahedral edges emphasized in insets a, b, c, and d: RGR, trend line for observed data (Robinson et al., I97I). FIG. 2 (right). Calculated mean quadratic elongation (;~)-bond angl...

Local distortion induced metal-to-insulator phase transition in PrRu4P12.

Extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) experiments have been carried out on PrRu(4)P(12) and PrOs(4)P(12) to study the metal-to-insulator (MI) phase transition in PrRu(4)P(12). No Pr displacement was observed across the MI transition temperature from the EXAFS data. Instead, our EXAFS data clearly show that a Ru displacement is associated with this MI transition. The very high Debye t...

Transition Metal Complexes of Peptide Derivatives Containing Chelating Side Chains

Photochemistry of Transition Metal Coordination Compounds

‘Unconventional’ Coordination Chemistry by Metal Chelating Fragments in a Metalloprotein Active Site

The binding of three closely related chelators: 5-hydroxy-2-methyl-4H-pyran-4-thione (allothiomaltol, ATM), 3-hydroxy-2-methyl-4H-pyran-4-thione (thiomaltol, TM), and 3-hydroxy-4H-pyran-4-thione (thiopyromeconic acid, TPMA) to the active site of human carbonic anhydrase II (hCAII) has been investigated. Two of these ligands display a monodentate mode of coordination to the active site Zn(2+) io...