1. Kinetic experimetns were done with pepsin (EC 3.4.4.1) using haemoglobin as a substrate in the presence of different metal cations. 2. The activation of peptic hydrolysis with higher concentration of cupric ions added to the reaction mixture was determined from turnover-rate curves in experiments with constant substrate concentration. With a Cu2+ concentration greater than 1.67 X 10(-4) M ac...

Levulinic acid (LA), 4-oxo-pentanoic acid, is a new platform chemical with various potential uses. In this paper, catalytic hydrogenation and oxidation of levulinic acid were studied. It was shown from experiments that levulinic acid can be hydrogenated to γ-valerolactone (GVL) over transition metal catalysts and oxidative-decarboxylated to 2-butanone (methyl-ethyl-ketone, MEK) and methyl-vinyl...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Cu(2)(C(18)H(14)Cl(4)N(2)O(2))(2)](n), contains two independent Cu(II) ions which are bridged by a pair of 4,4',6,6'-tetra-chloro-2,2'-[butane-1,4-diylbis(nitrilo-methanylyl-idene)]diphenolate ligands, forming a dinuclear unit. One of the Cu(II) ions is coordinated in a distorted square-planar environment and the other is coordinated in a distorted sq...

In the title compound, catena-poly[bis[(2,2'-bipyridine-κ(2)N,N')(1,1,3,3-tetracyano-2-ethoxypropenido-κN)copper(II)]-μ4-hexanedioato-κ(6)O(1),O(1'):O(1):O(6),O(6'):O(6)], [Cu2(C9H5N4O)2(C6H8O4)(C10H8N2)2]n, the adipate (hexanedioate) dianion lies across a centre of inversion in the space group P1. The Cu(II) centre adopts a distorted form of axially elongated (4+2) coordination, and the Cu(II)...

In the title complex, [Cu(C6H4N5)2], the Cu(II) ion lies on an inversion center and is coordinated by two chelating 5-(pyridin-2-yl)tetra-zolide ligands in a slightly distorted square-planar coordination geometry. In the crystal, π-π stacking inter-actions, with centroid-centroid distances in the range 3.4301 (14)-3.4387 (13) Å, link the complex mol-ecules along [101].

In the title heterodinuclear complex, [CuNa(C(8)H(7)O(3))(2)(NO(3))](n), the Cu(II) ion is five-coordinated in a square-pyramidal arrangement by four atoms of two different ligand molecules in equatorial positions and one remote nitrate O atom in the apical position. The Na(+) ion is eight-coordinated by four ligand O atoms and four nitrate O atoms. The ligand links the Cu(II) and Na ions, form...

In the title complex, [Cu(C(10)H(12)NO(4)S)(OH)(C(10)H(8)N(2))]·0.5H(2)O, the Cu(II) ion shows a distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometry with two N atoms from the 2,2'-bipyridine ligand and one N and one O atom from the N-tosyl-α-alaninato ligand forming the basis of the coordination polyhedron and another O atom of the hydroxo group acting as the apex of the pyramid. The solvent water...

The title compound, [Cu(6)I(6)(C(2)H(6)N(2)S)(6)], was obtained from the reaction of copper(I) iodide with N-methyl-thio-urea (Metu) in equimolar amounts in acetonitile. The complex consists of two six-membered trinuclear Cu(3)S(3)I(3) cores that combine through triply bridging Metu, forming a hexa-nuclear core which has -3 symmetry. The Cu(II) atom is coordinated by three S atoms of Metu and o...