Electron spin echo envelope spectroscopy was used to probe the two metal binding sites of Cu(II)-conalbumin. The echo envelope spectrum of Cu(II)-conalbumin-oxalate, with metal ion at either one or both of the binding sites, contains lines arising from the interaction of the electron spin of Cu(II) with bound imidazole, demonstrating histidine ligation to the metal ion. The 13C superhyperfine i...

The dissociations of two types of copper(II)-containing complexes of tryptophan (Trp), tyrosine (Tyr), or phenylalanine (Phe) are described. The first type is the bis-amino acid complex, [Cu(II)(M)(2)].(2+), where M = Trp, Tyr, or Phe; the second [Cu(II)(4Cl-tpy)(M)].(2+), where 4Cl-tpy is the tridendate ligand 4'-chloro-2,2':6',2''-terpyridine. Dissociations of the Cu(ii) bis-amino acid comple...

The title compound, [Cu(2)(C(14)H(8)O(4))(2)(C(10)H(8)N(2))(2)], was obtained by solvothermal synthesis. The Cu(II) atom is coordinated by one chelating 2,2'-bipyridine ligand and two carboxyl groups from different biphenyl-2,2'-dicarboxyl-ate ligands, leading to a distorted octahedral environment. Each carboxyl-ate group makes one short Cu-O bond [1.9608 (14) and 1.9701 (14) Å] and one longer ...

In the title dinuclear Cu(II) complex, [Cu(2)(C(7)H(3)NO(4))(2)(C(12)H(10)N(2))(H(2)O)(2)]·2H(2)O, the water-coordinated Cu(II) cation is O,N,O'-chelated by a pyridine-2,6-dicarboxyl-ate (pdc) dianion, and one pyridine N atom from a 1,2-bis-(4-pyrid-yl)ethene ligand coordinates to the Cu(II) cation, completing the CuN(2)O(3) distorted square-pyriamidial geometry. The Cu-O(water) bond [2.388 (4)...

X- and Q-band EPR and ENDOR spectroscopy was used to study the structure of a series of heteroleptic and homoleptic copper bis(oxazoline) complexes, based on the (-)-2,2'-isopropylidenebis[(4S)-4-phenyl-2-oxazoline] ligand and bearing different counterions (chloride versus triflate); labelled [Cu(II)(1a-c)]. The geometry of the two heteroleptic complexes, [Cu(II)(1a)] and [Cu(II)(1c)], depended...

Four binuclear complexes [Cu(dptsc)Cl]2 Æ 3H2O (1), [Cu(dptsc)Br]2 (2), [Cu(dptsc)(l-N3)]2 (3) and [Cu(dptsc)(NO3)]2 Æ H2O (4) (where Hdptsc = di-2-pyridyl ketone N(4)-methyl, N(4)-phenylthiosemicarbazone) have been synthesized and physicochemically characterized. Each Cu(II) atom in the monomeric unit exists in a penta-coordinate environment. The molecular structures of [Cu(dptsc)Br]2 and [Cu(...

Mutations in the metallo-protein Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1) cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in humans and an expression level-dependent phenotype in transgenic rodents. We show that oral treatment with the therapeutic agent diacetyl-bis(4-methylthiosemicarbazonato)copper(II) [Cu(II)(atsm)] increased the concentration of mutant SOD1 (SOD1G37R) in ALS model mice, but paradoxicall...

The copper-mediated aromatic nucleophilic substitution reactions developed by Fritz Ullmann and Irma Goldberg required stoichiometric amounts of copper and very high reaction temperatures. Recently, it was found that addition of relatively cheap ligands (diamines, aminoalcohols, diketones, diols) made these reactions truly catalytic, with catalyst amounts as low as 1 mol% or even lower. Since t...

Spectroscopic methods, density functional calculations, and ligand field analyses are combined to define the geometric models and electronic structure descriptions of the Cu(M) and Cu(H) sites in the oxidized form of the noncoupled binuclear copper protein peptidylglycine alpha-hydroxylating monooxygenase (PHM). The Cu(M) site has a square pyramidal geometry with a long axial Cu-methionine bond...