Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Chemie

Biomimetic Chemistry: Insight into Enzymatic Reactivity

ray2.png

 

A recent study from Kallol Ray, Gopalan Rajaraman and coworkers (see: Chandra et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.) provides insights into how metal-peroxo cores, which generally perform nucleophilic reactions, can be activated in biology for electrophilic reactions.