PNNL

Abstract

Metal ions play an important role in bioinorganic chemistry, however, following their respective chemistries is often complicated because several relevant metal ions (such as V5+, Cu1+, Zn2+, and Mg2+) are not always amenable to conventional UV/Vis or EPR spectroscopy. Rather, what we know of these metal sites has come from the characterization of the various compounds and proteins via x-ray crystallographic methods or from using surrogate metal probes for conventional spectroscopy