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Front Cover: Metal‐coordinated Hydroxide as a Nucleophile: a Brief History (Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 14/2018)
Author(s) -
Blackman Allan G.,
Gahan Lawrence R.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.354
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1521-3749
pISSN - 0044-2313
DOI - 10.1002/zaac.201870141
Subject(s) - nucleophile , front cover , moiety , ligand (biochemistry) , cover (algebra) , metal , octahedron , hydroxide , chemistry , polymer chemistry , stereochemistry , medicinal chemistry , crystallography , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , crystal structure , catalysis , engineering , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , receptor
The metal‐coordinated OH moiety has long been known to be an excellent nucleophile around neutral pH. But when was this fact first realised? Blackman and Gahan, in their review, address this question by looking at the history of metal‐coordinated OH. The cover picture, designed by Michael Crawford, illustrates a metal‐coordinated OH ligand on an octahedral metal centre. Surrounding this is a cyclic peptide ligand, the Cu(II)‐OH and Zn(II)‐OH complexes of which have been studied as hydrolytic agents by Peter Comba, the dedicatee of this issue, and coworkers. Details are discussed in the article by Allan G. Blackman and Lawrence R. Gahan on page 616 ff .