Resistance to antimicrobial agents is responsible for major social and economic losses. The World Health Organization estimated 700,000 global deaths a year due resistance. use of layered double hydroxides (LDHs) as antibacterial materials could present way reduce the risk bacterial infections resistance, by partial release metallic ions in aqueous dispersion. dissolution different synthetic LD...

Precatalyst control: [CuII(OTf)2(pyb)2]2 CH3CN (1), in which pyb is 1-(2-pyridyl)benzotriazole, enables the synthesis of a wide range propargylamines by A3 coupling reaction at room temperature absence additives. The hybrid N,N?-bidentate ligand imposes exclusive trans coordination Cu, can rotate and modulate charge distribution flux, thus orchestrating structural electronic precatalyst control...

I n this issue of PNAS, Schoonheydt, Solomon, and coworkers (1) definitively characterize the structure of the Cu-ZSM-5 site that oxidizes methane to methanol. With the successful correlation of a specific copper-oxy structure to such reactivity, the importance of this work extends beyond hydrocarbon oxidation on zeolites. This breakthrough potentially has farreaching implications in both the f...

The mixed-metal title compound, BaCu1/3Ta2/3S3 [barium copper(II) tantalum(V) tris-ulfide], was prepared through solid-state reactions. The crystal structure adopts the BaTaS3 structure type and consists of face-sharing [MS6] (M = Ta,Cu) octa-hedra (point-group symmetry -3m.) that are condensed into infinite chains along [001]. Adjacent chains are linked through the barium cations (site symmetr...

A new polymeric copper complex, viz. catena-poly[[[mu-N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl)oxamidato-kappa6N,N',O:N",N"',O']dicopper(II)]-di-mu-dicyanamido-1:1'kappa2N1:N5;2:2'kappa2N1:N5], [Cu2(C8H16N4O2)(C2N3)2]n or [Cu(oxpn)0.5[N(CN)2]]n [where H2oxpn is N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl)oxamide], has been synthesized by the reaction of Cu(oxpn), [Cu(ClO4)2].6H2O and NaN3. In the crystal structure, the Cu atom is fi...

Activated oxygen intermediates during copper zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD) catalysis were investigated using an isotope fractionation technique and natural abundance reagents. Competitive oxygen kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) are reported for the enzyme-catalyzed disproportionation of superoxide as well as the stoichiometric reaction of reduced SOD with molecular oxygen. Analysis within the c...

Biomolecular complexes are often multimers fueling the demand for methods that allow unraveling their composition and geometric arrangement. Pulse electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is increasingly applied for retrieving geometric information on the nanometer scale. The emerging RIDME (relaxation-induced dipolar modulation enhancement) technique offers improved sensitivity in di...