The synthesis and characterisation of three new mixed-valent manganese clusters [Mn(II)₄Mn(III)₁₆O₁₂(OH)₄(tea)₈(chp)₄]·6MeOH·4H₂O (1), [Mn(II)₆Mn(III)₄(teaH)₄(teaH₂)₂(tpaa)₆(F)₈]·2Et₂O·4MeCN (2) and [Mn(II)₆Mn(III)₄(teaH)₄(teaH₂)₂(2-bpca)₆(F)₈]·4MeCN (3) are reported. They were obtained by the reaction of simple manganese salts with triethanolamine (teaH₃), triethylamine (NEt₃) and the appropri...

Reactions of MnX(2) meltsalt (X = Cl and ClO(4)) and a quinquedentate Schiff base ligand together with its coligand azides in MeOH produced the unprecedented assembly of novel octa- and hexadecanuclear manganese clusters containing two and four alternant tetrahedral Mn(III)(3)Mn(II) cores bridged by Schiff base ligands and versatile azides groups. The magnetic measurements on both compounds ind...

Ž . Several manganese III porphyrins showed significantly increased turnover-numbers for the catalytic epoxidation of Ž . styrene upon addition of bulky Lewis acids such as ZnTPP and MgTPP TPPs tetraphenylporphyrin . Catalytic enhancement of twoto four-fold, depending on the additive, was observed with a manganese porphyrin bearing bis-pyridyl groups. The enhancement is primarily attributed to ...

Mass spectrometric analysis of reaction products allows simultaneous characterization of activities mediated by multifunctional enzymes. By use of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, the relative influence of magnesium and manganese promoted exonuclease and phosphatase activities of Esherichia coli exonuclease III have been quantitatively measured, offering a rapid and sensitive alternative to radioac...

The structure of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II, which contains a cubane-like metal-oxo cluster incorporating four manganese(III,IV) cations, along with a calcium cation, has focussed attention on synthetic analogues of this cluster. Despite this activity, there are relatively few structurally characterised coordination clusters with this combination of metal cations. The calixar...

A general approach for the synthesis of manganese-doped II-VI and III-V nanowires based on metal nanocluster-catalyzed chemical vapor deposition has been developed. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy studies of Mn-doped CdS, ZnS, and GaN nanowires demonstrate that the nanowires are single-crystal structures and homogeneously doped with cont...

CaMnO(3) and Ca(2)Mn(3)O(8) were synthesized and characterized by SEM, XRD, FTIR and BET. Both oxides showed oxygen evolution activity in the presence of oxone, cerium(IV) ammonium nitrate and H(2)O(2). Oxygen evolution from water during irradiation with visible light (λ > 400 nm) was also observed upon adding these manganese oxides to an aqueous solution containing tris(2,2'-bipyridyl) rutheni...

A supported manganese porphyrin-based oxidation catalyst was prepared by zirconium-phosphonate multilayer assembly with [5,15-bis(4-phenylphosphonic acid)porphyrinato] manganese(III) chloride (2) and zirconium(IV) ions on indium–tin oxide electrodes. This assembly technique provided good control over the catalyst loading, which was confirmed by UV–Vis spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. Relati...

The title compound, [Mn(2)(C(18)H(18)N(2)O(2))(2)(C(7)H(5)O(2))(2)]·2H(2)O, was synthesized by the reaction between manganese(II) benzoate and the Schiff base generated in situ by the condensation of ethane-1,2-diamine and o-hydroxy-aceto-phen-one. The Jahn-Teller-distorted manganese(III) ions of the centrosymmetric dimer are connected through phen-oxy bridges. Hydrogen-bonding inter-actions be...