Design Strategies for Metal Complexes that Activate Bio-Related Small Molecules
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 23495
Special Issue Editors
2. Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
Interests: bio-inorganic chemistry; dioxygen activation; dinitrogen activation; hydrogen activation; CO2 activation; NO sensor; siderophore chemistry; microbe sensor; molecular recognition; dye-sensitized solar cell
2. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi 468-8502, Japan
3. Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Republic of Korea
Interests: artificial photosynthesis; electron transfer chemistry; organic photocatalysis; redox catalysis; dioxygen activation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In living organisms, there are many metalloenzymes that activate biologically active small molecules such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide. Currently, the structures and functions of many of these enzymes are being clarified by excellent structural and spectroscopic analysis methods. At the same time, research is being conducted to mimic the structure and function of these enzymes using metal complexes, and to develop catalysts that can function under environmental-friendly conditions in order to contribute to our lives in the future. In this special issue, as a message to future bioinorganic chemists and catalysis researchers, we invite papers on design strategies of metals and ligands focusing on the activation of small molecules from many researchers, in this case, oxygen and nitrogen.
Prof. Dr. Hideki Masuda
Prof. Dr. Shunichi Fukuzumi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- small molecule activation
- dinitrogen activation
- dioxygen activation
- ligand design
- design concept
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