Wenjuan Zhu
Dr. rer. nat. Wenjuan Zhu
Tel: +49 30 2093-82802
Raum: 1'204
Research topic
Biohybrid Nonheme Iron Complexes for the cis-Dihydroxylation and Indole Oxidation Reactions of Dioxygenase Enzymes.
Publications
- "Debate of Nucleophilic versus Electrophilic Oxidative Aldehyde Deformylation by Mononuclear Nonheme Iron(III)-Peroxo and Iron(IV)-Oxo Complexes"
W. Zhu, D. Sun, A. Zhou, S. Wang, Y. Zhang, H. P. H. Wong, A. Kumar, X. Lu, P. Wu, S. S. Nag, Y. Wang, K. Ray, S. P. de Visser, W. Nam, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c16522 - "Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Mononuclear Nonheme Iron−Peroxo Complexes as a Biomimetic Model of Rieske Oxygenases: Ring Size Effects of Macrocyclic Ligands"
W. Zhu, P. Wu, V. A. Larson, A. Kumar, X.-X. Li, M. S. Seo, Y.-M. Lee, B. Wang, N. Lehnert, W. Nam, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 250-262.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08559 - "Seeing the cis-Dihydroxylating Intermediate: A Mononuclear Nonheme Iron-Peroxo Complex in cis-Dihydroxylation Reactions Modeling Rieske Dioxygenases"
W. Zhu, A. Kumar, J. Xiong, M. J. Abernathy, X.-X. Li, M. S. Seo, Y.-M. Lee, R. Sarangi, Y. Guo, W. Nam, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145,4389-4393.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c13551 - "Use of Singlet Oxygen in the Generation of a Mononuclear Nonheme Iron(IV)-Oxo Complex"
W. Zhu, N. Sharma, Y.-M. Lee, M. E. El-Khouly, S. Fukuzumi, W. Nam, Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 4116-4123.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c04020 - "A Mononuclear Non-heme Iron(III)–Peroxo Complex with an Unprecedented High O–O Stretch and Electrophilic Reactivity"
W. Zhu, S. Jang, J. Xiong, R. Ezhov, X.-X. Li, T. Kim, M. S. Seo, Y.-M. Lee, Y. Pushkar, R. Sarangi, Yisong Guo, W.Nam, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 14, 15556-15561.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03358