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Coordination chemistry of life processes: Bioinorganic chemistry

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Many enzymes and proteins have metal ions at their active sites that play key roles in catalysis. An important goal of an interdisciplinary field like bioinorganic chemistry is the development of small inorganic coordination complexes that not only reproduce structural and spectroscopic features, but also function in a manner similar to their natural counterparts. To highlight this burgeoning field, some selected results on synthetic modelling of (i) the electronic structure of manganese cluster of photosystem II and (ii) functional modelling of the dinuclear copper enzyme tyrosinase are described in this article.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, 208 016, Kanpur, India

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Mukherjee, R.N. Coordination chemistry of life processes: Bioinorganic chemistry. Reson 4, 53–62 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02834233

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