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Metallic copper and silver both have antibacterial properties and Au thiol complexes have found increasing use in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, but only copper of this group has a biological role in sustaining life. It is widely distributed in the plant and animal worlds, and its redox chemistry is involved in a variety of... 

The transition metals, unlike those in Groups 1 and 2, typically show several different oxidation numbers in their compounds. This tends to make their redox chemistry more complex (and more colorful). Only in the lower oxidation states (+1, +2, +3) are the transition metals present as cations (e.g., Ag+, Zn2+, Fe3+). In higher oxidation states (+4 to +7) a transition metal is covalently bonded to a nonmetal atom, most often oxygen. 

Vepraskas MJ, Faulkner SP. Redox chemistry of hydric soils. In Richardson JL, Ve-praskas MJ, editors. Wetland Soils Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification. Boca Raton CRC Press, Taylor Francis Group 2001. pp. 85-105. 

A recent review covers the redox chemistry of monomeric and oligomeric phthalocyanines in the form of monomers and stacks174. Of the group 14 elements, the electrochemical redox data described concerns mostly silicon derivatives and one germanium compound, m -oxobis(tetra-t -butyl) phthalocyanatogermanium175. 

Methylhydroxyurea (28, Fig. 7.5) oxidizes oxyHb to metHb and reduces metHb to deoxyHb but neither of these reactions produces HbNO, further supporting the mechanism depicted in Scheme 7.16 for the formation of NO and HbNO from the reactions of hydroxyurea and hemoglobin [115]. The O-methyl group of 27 prevents the association and further reaction of 27 with the heme iron [115]. Scheme 7.16 predicts the redox chemistry observed during the reaction of 28 with hemoglobin and the failure to detect HbNO shows the inability of 28 or any derivative radicals to transfer NO during these reactions [115]. These results indicate that nitric oxide transfer in these reactions of hydroxyurea requires an unsubstituted acylhydroxylamine (-NHOH) group. 

Schultz and coworkers (Jackson et a ., 1988) have generated an antibody which exhibits behaviour similar to the enzyme chorismate mutase. The enzyme catalyses the conversion of chorismate [49] to prephenate [50] as part of the shikimate pathway for the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids in plants and micro-organisms (Haslam, 1974 Dixon and Webb, 1979). It is unusual for an enzyme in that it does not seem to employ acid-base chemistry, nucleophilic or electrophilic catalysis, metal ions, or redox chemistry. Rather, it binds the substrate and forces it into the appropriate conformation for reaction and stabilizes the transition state, without using distinct catalytic groups. 

Stan Van Den Berg is a Professor of Chemical Oceanography at the University of Liverpool. His research interests focus on the chemical specia-tion of trace elements and organic compounds in natural waters and the redox chemistry of metals and sulfides. His research group has pioneered advances in analytical techniques using electroanalytical methods (cathodic stripping voltammetry and chronopotentiometry). Dr. Van Den Berg is a broad-based analytical chemist. 

Although Hg has two oxidation states, there is a relatively small amount of redox chemistry associated with the group. Many reactions of Hg(I) and Hg(II) appear to involve the disproportionation equilibrium ... 

NMN is basically half of the NAD+ molecule nicotinamide ribose phosphate. NADP+ is NAD+ bearing a phosphate group at C3 of the ribose group attached to the adenine. The redox chemistry is the same in all three forms of the coenzymes. NAD+ is the form most frequently employed for biochemical oxidation reactions in catabohsm and NADP+ (in its reduced form NADPH) is the form usually employed for biochemical reduction reactions in anabohsm. NMN is employed infrequently. 

The standard aqueous redox chemistry of vanadium and the other group 5 elements is summarized in the Latimer diagrams shown in Fig. 1 [2]. Under standard acidic aqueous conditions, the stability of the -1-5 oxidation state increases for the heavier group 5 elements at the expense of the +4 and -L3 states. 

In a fashion similar to that of cobalt salen, distinct redox chemistry can be observed for each of the two cobalt centers of (28). Coulometric studies showed that the complex can undergo a one-electron reduction as well as a one-electron oxidation of each cobalt center and that there is no interaction between those cobalt centers. Thus, the two metal centers can be used as separate catalytic sites for the reduction of halogenated organic compounds. In the same article [147] is a hst of literature citations of work done over the past 20 years by the group of Hisaeda on the catalytic behavior of electroreduced vitamin B12 derivatives. 

The subject of this chapter is the periodicity of the aqueous chemistry of the elements of the s-block (Groups 1 and 2) and the p-block (Groups 11-18) of the Periodic Table. Modified Latimer diagrams summarize the chemistry of all the elements, and some volt-equivalent diagrams are given to represent the inter-relations between various oxidation states of the elements. Explanations of some trends in redox chemistry are discussed in detail. 

The summaries of the redox chemistry of each Group of transition elements... 

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