DOI: 10.1039/A706634A
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Reference Section for: Chem. Commun., 1997, 2379-2380
Ligand rotamers and redox isomerism: metallo-pseudo-prolines
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Marcus C. Durrant, Shirley A. Fairhurst, David L. Hughes, Saad K. Ibrahim, Mario Passos, Christopher J. Pickett, Mario Passos and Arlete Queiros
Abstract
A ligand rotation which orientates the oxygen atom of an amide group towards or away from a neighbouring metal centre provides rotamers A and B with E° potentials which differ by 150 mV; oxidation of the metal centre of B switches the system from a state in which there is a small difference in the relative populations of the rotamers to one in which the cis-amide conformation greatly predominates; this new metallocycle system can be viewed as a pseudo-proline with redox sensitive rotameric properties.
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