The chiral crown conformation in paddlewheel complexes

Unusual peroxo intermediates in the reaction of dioxygen with carboxylate-bridged diiron(II,II) paddlewheel complexes.

Chiral lutetium benzamidinate complexes.

Enantiomerically pure lutetium complexes were synthesized as the first rare earth metal complexes containing a chiral amidinate ligand. The catalytic activity and the enantioselectivity in hydroamination reactions were studied.

Expanding the family of heterobimetallic Bi-Rh paddlewheel carboxylate complexes via equatorial carboxylate exchange.

Five novel homoleptic heterobimetallic bismuth(II)-rhodium(II) carboxylate complexes--BiRh(TPA)4 (1), BiRh(but)4 (2), BiRh(piv)4 (3), BiRh(esp)2 (4), and BiRh(OAc)4 (5)--were synthesized in good yields by equatorial ligand substitution starting from BiRh(TFA)4 (TPA = triphenylacetate, but = butyrate, piv = pivalate, esp = α,α,α',α'-tetramethyl-1,3-benzenedipropionate, OAc = acetate, and TFA = t...

Molecular modeling of zinc paddlewheel molecular complexes and the pores of a flexible metal organic framework.

A new all-atom first-principles force field (FF) is constructed for the bimetallic, four-bladed zinc paddlewheel (ZPW) motif. Zinc-ligand interactions are described via Morse functions and the angular geometry at the metal centers is modeled with a pure ligand-ligand repulsion term. The ZPW-FF is principally based on 15 DFT-optimized model systems of general formula ZnPR.nL, where ZnP is the ba...

Conformation of the signal recognition particle in ribosomal targeting complexes.

The bacterial signal recognition particle (SRP) binds to ribosomes synthesizing inner membrane proteins and, by interaction with the SRP receptor, FtsY, targets them to the translocon at the membrane. Here we probe the conformation of SRP and SRP protein, Ffh, at different stages of targeting by measuring fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between fluorophores placed at various posit...