Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Ray Group

 

Dr. rer. nat. Wenjuan Zhu

Tel: +49 30 2093-82802

wenjuan.zhu@hu-berlin.de

Raum: 1'204

Research topic

Biohybrid Nonheme Iron Complexes for the cis-Dihydroxylation and Indole Oxidation Reactions of Dioxygenase Enzymes.

Publications

1. "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
2. "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
3. "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
4. "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

Conferences