Mechanistic bioinorganic chemistry / H. Holden Thorp, Vincent L. Pecoraro, [editors] ; developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, Inc., at the 205th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Denver, Colorado, March 28-April 2, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Understanding the mechanisms in bioinorganic chemistry / H. Holden Thorp -- Insights into the role of nickel in hydrogenase / Michael J. Maroney ... [et al.] -- Modeling phenoxyl radical metalloenzyme active sites / David P. Goldber and Stephen J. Lippard -- Reactivity models for dinuclear iron metalloenzymes : oxygen atom transfer catalysis and dioxygen activation / Adonis Stassinopoulos, Subhashish Mukerjee, and John P. Caradonna -- Electronic structures of active sites in copper proteins and their contributions to reactivity / Edward I. Solomon ... [et al.] -- Biomimetic copper-dioxygen chemistry : reversible O2?binding and mechanistic insights into Cu(I)/O2?mediated arene hydroxylation and amide hydrolysis / Narasimha N. Murthy and Kenneth D. Karlin -- Synthetic modeling of the interactions of nitrogen oxides with copper proteins : copper nitrosyl complexes relevant to putative denitrification intermediates / William B. Tolman -- Structural characterization of manganese redox enzymes : results from X-ray absorption spectroscopy / Pamela J. Riggs-Gelasco, Rui Mei, and James E. Penner-Hahn -- Structure and function of manganese in photosystem II / Gary W. Brudvig --Reactivity and mechanism of manganese enzymes : a modeling approach / Vincent L. Pecoraro, Andrew Gelasco, and Michael J. Baldwin -- Application of NMR spectroscopy to studies of aqueous coordination of chemistry of vanadium(V) complexes / Debbie C. Crans, Paul K. Shin, and Kathleen B. Armstrong -- Modeling vanadium bromoperoxidase : oxidation of halides by peroxovanadium(V) complexes / Alison Butler and Melissa J. Clague -- Magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy as a probe of the active site structures of iron chlorin- and formylporphyrin-containing green heme proteins / John H. Dawson ... [et al.] -- Mechanistic aspects of the chemistry of iron n-alkyl porphyrins / Charles R. Cornman and Edward P. Zovinka -- Mechanisms of DNA cleavage by high-valent metal complexes / Gregory A. Neyhart ... [et al.] -- Metal ion macrocyclic complexes as artificial ribonucleases / Janet R. Morrow ... [et al.] -- Metallointercalators as probes of the DNA [pi]-way / Michelle R. Arkin ... [et al.] -- Donor-acceptor electronic coupling in Ruthenium-modified heme proteins / Danilo R. Casimiro ... [et al.].