Synthetic dioxygen carriers

Jameson, G. B., and Ibers, J. A. (1994). Biological and synthetic dioxygen carriers. In Bioinorganic Chemistry (I. Bertini, H. B. Gray, S. J. Lippard, and J. S. Valentine, eds.). University Science Books, Mill Valley, California. 

D. H. Busch, Synthetic Dioxygen Carriers for Dioxygen Transport, in "Oxygen Complexes and Oxygen Activation by Transition Metals," A. E. Martell et al, Ed., Plenum Press, New York (1988). 

Various cobalt (II) complexes, usually referred to as synthetic dioxygen carriers, are known to interact reversibly with dioxygen under ambient conditions, affording predominantly dioxygen complexes of different types. 

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