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SUBMITTER: Drena A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11240256 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Drena Alex A Fraker Addison A Thompson Niklas B NB Doan Peter E PE Hoffman Brian M BM McSkimming Alex A
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20240628 27
The iron-molybdenum cofactor of nitrogenase (FeMoco) catalyzes fixation of N<sub>2</sub> via Fe hydride intermediates. Our understanding of these species has relied heavily on the characterization of well-defined 3d metal hydride complexes, which serve as putative spectroscopic models. Although the Fe ions in FeMoco, a weak-field cluster, are expected to adopt locally high-spin Fe<sup>2+/3+</sup> configurations, synthetically accessible hydride complexes featuring d<sup>5</sup> or d<sup>6</sup> ...[more]