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Back Cover: Superoxide Disproportionation Driven by Zinc Complexes with Various Steric and Electrostatic Properties (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47/2013)
Author(s) -
Wada Akira,
Jitsukawa Koichiro,
Masuda Hideki
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201309062
Subject(s) - disproportionation , zinc , chemistry , steric effects , superoxide dismutase , superoxide , copper , cover (algebra) , inorganic chemistry , stereochemistry , enzyme , catalysis , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , engineering
To illuminate an unexplained role of the zinc site of copper–zinc superoxide dismutase (Cu‐Zn SOD), synthetic zinc complexes as models of Cu‐Zn SOD were spectroscopically and structurally characterized. In their Communication on page 12293 ff. , H. Masuda et al. describe the induction of the superoxide disproportionation reaction in the electrostatic sphere of the zinc complexes and elucidate that the reaction efficiency depended on both the Lewis acidity and the coordination structure of the zinc center.