The sustainable production of clean energy constitutes one of the most important scientific
challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the major part of the global energy supply is …

The rational design of well-defined, first-row transition metal complexes that can activate
dioxygen has been a challenging goal for the synthetic inorganic chemist. The activation of …

The essential involvement of manganese in photosynthetic water oxidation was implicit in
the observation by Pirson in 1937 that plants and algae deprived of Mn in their growth …

Ozone decomposition was investigated under reaction conditions by using Raman
spectroscopy on a supported manganese oxide catalyst. An adsorbed species with a …

The. llltl'.. l inlportallt Itlnclioll o| nl; lllg, lllC~, C ill biology is to catalyze Iht conxcrsion ot water
to molecular oxygen. Thb, process t;. ikc~, place in l'tlolos~ Mem II near the lumenal surface …

A tetramanganese cluster (Mn4) resides at the active site of photosystem II (PSII) in green
plants and in certain bacteria and algae. It catalyzes the light-driven water oxidation reaction …

Given the well-defined enzymology of the manganese catalases and recent advances in the
structural biology of these proteins, this is an excellent area for corroborative modeling of the …

Manganese is an essential trace element, forming the active sites of a number of
metalloproteins. Several metalloproteins contain two or more manganese ions per subunit …

In the last two decades, considerable efforts were invested in the search for synthetic iron
and manganese catalysts with nonporphyrinic ligands, mimicking metalloenzymes in the …

Recent advances in the study of the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII)
include structural information attained from several X-ray crystallographic (XRD) and …