On the basis of its generally accessible I/II redox couple and bioavailability, copper plays a
wide variety of roles in nature that mostly involve electron transfer (ET), O 2 binding …

The soil microbial community fulfils various functions, such as nutrient cycling and carbon
(C) sequestration, therefore contributing to maintenance of soil fertility and mitigation of …

Allelopathy is a biochemical interaction between plants in which a donor plant releases
secondary metabolites, allelochemicals, that are detrimental to the growth of its neighbours …

Relatively high concentrations of micropollutants in municipal wastewater treatment plant
(WWTP) effluents underscore the necessity to develop additional treatment steps prior to …

Laccases from different sources catalyse oxidation of various phenolic and aromatic
compounds to products that very often are colourful and may be used as dyes, especially in …

Ommochromes are widely occurring coloured molecules of invertebrates, arising from
tryptophan catabolism through the so‐called Tryptophan→ Ommochrome pathway. They are …

Abstract A series of amine (1–6) and imine (5′, 6′) based copper (II) complexes with
tridentate (NNO) ligand donors were synthesized and characterized using modern analytical …

Laccases are multi-copper oxidases that oxidise a wide range of substrates including
phenol and aniline derivatives, which could be further involved in coupling reactions leading …

A variety of hexa-coordinated mononuclear cobalt (II) and cobalt (III) complexes with N 2 O
donor Schiff bases have been synthesized and their structural properties have been …

Kynurenines, the main products of tryptophan catabolism, possess both prooxidant and
anioxidant effects. Having multiple neuroactive properties, kynurenines are implicated in the …