Bioinorganic Catalysis

CEumnack, R. Bioinorganic Catalysis Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, 1992. 

H Sigel, A Sigel (eds). Bioinorganic Catalysis. New York Marcel Dekker, 1992. 

Figure 5.21 Catalytic cycles for hemocyanin and tyrosinase. (Adapted with permission from Karlin, K. D. In Reedijk, J. Bouwman, E. eds. Bioinorganic Catalysis, 2nd ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1999, pp. 469-534. Copyright 1999, Marcel Dekker.)...

Cammack, R. and van Vliet, P. (1999) Catalysis by Nickel in Biological Systems. In J. Reedijk and E. Bouwman (eds). Bioinorganic Catalysis, 2nd edn. New York Marcel Dekker, pp. 231-68. 

Marzilli, L. G. Bioinorganic Catalysis , Marcel Dekker New York, 1993. 

The equilibrium constant for coordination of the first equivalent of H202 to V02+ is 3.7 X 104 M l and is independent of pH [75], The binding constant for the second equivalent of H202 is 0.6 M and depends on pH with significantly less peroxide coordination at higher acid concentration [63], Since the publication of the first edition of Bioinorganic Catalysis, the specific oxidant of bromide has been identified ... 

Bioinorganic chemistry will surely develop in an even wider area than it has thus far. Attention is likely to increase for studies on nonmetals, such as Se and As and their roles in, e.g., detoxification reactions. In addition, studies on elements such as aluminum (a possible causative factor in dialysis dementia and related to Alzheimer disease, senile dementia) and other abundant earth crust metals will increase. The role of bioinorganic catalysis to make and keep our environment clean has been mentioned in many of the previous chapters. It is to be expected that future catalytic processes, based on and derived from biological ones, will be as clean as possible, producing useful, harmless, and biodegradable products for the world. 

Last but not least, we should mention that the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) was erected in 1995, and is strongly developing, not only giving attention to bioinorganic catalysis, but also to biomimetics, electron transfer, and the role of metal ions in medicine and the environment, including metal-nucleic acid interactions for details, see the website http //www.sbic-home.org/. 

In many biocatalytic systems, the metal plays an important role at the active site (more than 50% of all known enzymes need a metal ion to be active), and usually the reaction intermediates reside on the metal ion in the enzyme. Bioinorganic catalysis is defined as a branch of catalysis dealing with processes performed with the aid of metalloenzymes, modified enzymes, and synthetic metal-containing molecules resembling the active site of metalloproteins. 

Reedijk, J. Bioinorganic Catalysis, Marcel Dekker Inc. New York, Basel, 1993. 

Wikaira, J., Gorun, S M. (1999) Biological and biomimetic catalysis of manganese redox enzymes and their inorganic models, in Reedijk, J. and Bouwman, E. (eds) Bioinorganic Catalysis (2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded) Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, N. Y., pp. 355-422. 

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