On the Cu (III)/Cu (II) redox chemistry of Cu-peptide complexes to assist catalyst design

JS Pap, Ł Szyrwiel - Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The versatility of copper-peptide complexes offers several options for adjusting their pH-
dependent speciation, stability, and redox properties. In context, their bio-inspired and …

A Cu (ii) pseudopeptide complex: a surrogate to a formal Cu (iii) species in water and an inhibitor of cancer cell proliferation

R Eerlapally, SK Vechalapu, S Duraisamy… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Metalloenzymes play a crucial role in life, performing myriad functions in aqueous
environments in nature. Understanding these systems' structural and functional mimics in …

Enzyme mimics complexing Cu (II) ion: structure–function relationships

A Corazza, M Scarpa, A Corazza… - The Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Five peptides containing (His‐X2)‐His or (His‐X3)‐His motifs have been designed and
synthesized to coordinate Cu (II). Structural information was obtained by various …

Spectroscopic characterization and the reactivity of a high valent (L) Cu (iii) species supported by a proline-based pseudopeptide

R Eerlapally, S Gupta, A Awasthi, R Kumar… - Dalton …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by copper-based metalloenzymes, we aim to incorporate amino acids into our
ligands to facilitate active copper intermediates that serve as functional and structural …

On the copper (ii) binding of asymmetrically functionalized tripodal peptides: solution equilibrium, structure, and enzyme mimicking

Á Dancs, K Selmeczi, NV May, T Gajda - New Journal of Chemistry, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Our aim is to combine the preorganized structure of tripodal scaffolds and the advantageous
metal-binding ability of histidine subunits. To this end, recently we have studied the copper …

Drastic Effect of the Peptide Sequence on the Copper‐Binding Properties of Tripeptides and the Electrochemical Behaviour of Their Copper (II) Complexes

S Mena, A Mirats, AB Caballero… - … A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The binding and electrochemical properties of the complexes CuII‐HAH, CuII‐HWH, CuII‐Ac‐
HWH, CuII‐HHW, and CuII‐WHH have been studied by using NMR and UV/Vis …

The bioinorganic and organometallic chemistry of copper (III)

X Ribas, A Casitas - Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Copper in oxidation state+ 3 is known in a limited number of compounds. In view of the
electronic configuration of CuIII ion, 3d8, the ligand-field theory predicts an enhanced …

Crystal structure and catalytic activity of a copper (II) complex based on a tetradentate bis-benzimidazole diamide ligand

SC Mohapatra, S Tehlan, MS Hundal, P Mathur - Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2008 - Elsevier
A dimeric copper (II) complex bridged via a new tetra dentate bis benzimidazole diamide
ligand [N, N′-bis (benzimidazolyl-2-yl)(methyl) pentane diamide](GBGA) with the …

Effect of the Peptidic Scaffold in Copper (II) Coordination and the Redox Properties of Short Histidine‐Containing Peptides

A Fragoso, T Carvalho… - … A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A linear decapeptide containing three His and one Asp residues and a β‐turn‐inducing
dProPro unit was synthesised. A detailed potentiometric, mass spectrometric and …

Sequence-specific Cu (II)-dependent peptide bond hydrolysis: similarities and differences with the Ni (II)-dependent reaction

A Belczyk-Ciesielska, IA Zawisza, M Mital… - Inorganic …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Potentiometry and UV–vis and circular dichroism spectroscopies were applied to
characterize Cu (II) coordination to the Ac-GASRHWKFL-NH2 peptide. Using HPLC and ESI …