Bacterial oxidation of Mn(II) to Mn(IV) is believed to drive the oxidative segment of the global biogeochemical Mn cycle and regulates the concentration of dissolved Mn(II) in the oceanic water column, where it is a critical nutrient for planktonic primary productivity. Mn(II) oxidizing activity is expressed by numerous phylogenetically diverse bacteria and fungi, suggesting that it plays a fun...

Multinuclear manganese sites that are involved in the catalysis of reactions vital to biological systems are being steadily recognized and studied. Besides the photosynthetic water-oxidizing complex, which is known to utilize 4 Mn ions for the oxidation of water to molecular oxygen [1], evidence has accumulated that the Mn site of the pseudo-catalase from Lactobacillus planatrum is comprised of...

When the reagents LAlMe (L = N,N'-(alkylene or arylene)bis(3,5-di-tert-butyl)salicylideneimine (alkylene = ethylene (Salen(tBu))(1), propylene (Salpen(tBu))(2), and butylene (Salben(tBu)) (3); arylene = phenylene (Salophen(tBu) (4), 3,4-dimethylphenylene (Salomphen(tBu) (5)) are combined with Ph(H)P(O)OH in tetrahydrofuran (thf) the unique aluminophosphinate compounds, [L(tBu)Al[O(2)P(H)Ph]](n)...

The oxidation of organic matter coupled to the reduction of Fe(III) or Mn(IV) is one of the most important biogeochemical reactions in aquatic sediments, soils, and groundwater. This process, which may have been the first globally significant mechanism for the oxidation of organic matter to carbon dioxide, plays an important role in the oxidation of natural and contaminant organic compounds in ...

In the title complex, [Mn(C(17)H(16)N(2)O(2))Cl], the Mn(III) ion is coordinated by two O [Mn-O = 1.719 (2) and 1.813 (2) Å] and two N [Mn-N = 1.824 (2) and 1.931 (2) Å] atoms from the tetra-dentate Schiff base ligand and a chloride anion [Mn-Cl = 2.9634 (16) Å] in a square-pyramidal geometry. In the ligand, the two benzene rings form a dihedral angle of 68.06 (5)°.

Synthetic access has been achieved into high oxidation state Mn/Ca chemistry with the 4 : 1 Mn : Ca stoichiometry of the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of plants and cyanobacteria; the anion of (Et(3)NH)(2)[Mn(III)(4)Ca(O(2)CPh)(4)(shi)(4)] has a square pyramidal metal topology and an S = 0 ground state.

Manganese(III) has been stabilized in weakly acidic solution by pyrophosphate and the complex formed was elucidated spectrophotometrically. Stoichiometry of manganese(III) oxidation of ampicillin in pyrophosphate medium was established in the pH range 2.0–3.0 by iodometric and spectrophotometric methods. The oxidation follows frst order kinetics in [Mn(III)]. The effect of varying [Mn(III)], [A...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Mn(C13H15N4O)2]NO3·CH3OH, contains two independent complex cations, in each of which the Mn(III) ion is located on an inversion centre. The Mn(III) ion is coordinated by four N and two O atoms from two 1,3-bis-{[(1H-pyrrol-2-yl)methyl-idene]amino}-propan-2-olate ligands, resulting in a distorted octa-hedral geometry. The average Mn-ligand bond lengths...