INORSunday, 26 March 2006
9:00 AM-12:20 PM Georgia World Congress Center -- B408, Oral
Bioinorganic Compound Design and Modeling
Organizer, Presiding:Robert P. Houser
9:00 AM45Photophysical properties of [Ru(phen)2(dppz)]2+ intercalated into DNA: A theoretical study
Simona Fantacci, Filippo De Angelis, Antonio Sgamellotti
9:20 AM46Spin-state transitions in manganese porphyrins with anionic ligands probed by paramagnetic NMR spectroscopy
Gigi B Ray, Ashley M. Ribera, Bryan D. Cox, Virginia L. Bryant
9:40 AM47Modeling the water oxidizing complex (WOC) of photosynthesis: high oxidation state manganese-calcium or -strontium clusters with structural similarities to the WOC
Abhudaya Mishra, Junko Yano, Yulia Pushkar, V. K. Yachandra, Khalil A. Abboud, George Christou
10:00 AM48Targeting high-valent metal oxos for functional OEC mimics
Theodore A Betley, Daniel G. Nocera
10:20 AM49Mechanistic insight into the effect of carboxylic acids on the behavior of bio-inspired non-heme iron catalysts
Ruben Mas-Balleste, Lawrence Que Jr.
10:40 AM50Probing thiolate reactivity of Ni-SOD model complexes
Craig A. Grapperhaus, Christopher S. Mullins, Robert M. Buchanan, Brian C. Frye, Mark S. Mashuta, Pawel M. Kozlowski
11:00 AM51Spontaneous redox between copper(II) and a thioether ligand: Modeling the oxidation of methionine in amyloid beta of Alzheimer's disease
Robert P. Houser, Eric L. Klein, Urmila Pal Chaudhuri, Brett M. Anderson
11:20 AM52Roles of copper, proton, chlorides and heme types in heme-copper oxidases: Kinetic and electrochemical studies of an engineered heme-copper center in myoglobin
Xuan Zhao, Ningyan Wang, Yeung Natasha, Yi Lu
11:40 AM53Copper binding characteristics of a designed dinucleating peptide developed to be an oxyhemocyanin active site model
David A. Rockcliffe, Arthur Cammers, Ayaluru Murali, William K Russell, Victoria J DeRose
12:00 PM54Mechanism of N2O reduction by the μ4-S tetranuclear CuZ cluster of nitrous oxide reductase
Serge I. Gorelsky, Somdatta Ghosh, E. I. Solomon

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The 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30, 2006