Context. There have been recent claims that a significant fraction of type 2 AGN accrete close or even above the Eddington limit. In type 2 AGN the bolometric luminosity (Lb) is generally inferred from the [OIII] emission line luminosity (LOIII). The key issue, in order to estimate the bolometric luminosity in these AGN, is therefore to know the bolometric correction to be applied to LOIII. A c...

Mussels of the genus Mytilus segregate for a maternally transmitted F lineage and a paternally transmitted M lineage of mitochondrial DNA. Previous studies demonstrated that these lineages are older than the species of the M. edulis complex and that the M lineage evolves faster than the F lineage. Here we show that the latter observation also applies to a region of the molecule with no assigned...

We report on a novel frameshift mutation in the mtDNA gene encoding cytochrome c oxidase (COX) subunit III. The proband is an 11-year-old girl with a negative family history and an apparently healthy younger brother. Since 4 years of age, she has developed a progressive spastic paraparesis associated with ophthalmoparesis and moderate mental retardation. The presence of severe lactic acidosis a...

The Front Cover shows the competition for aerobic peroxidation of organic molecules, under ambient conditions, between cobalt(III) alkylperoxo quaterpyridine complexes, [CoIII(OOR′)]2+, with different R′ groups (the structures are shown inside balloons held by children). rate RH → ROOH transformation is dependent on nature group in [CoIII(OOR’)]2+ a descending order 3o>2o>1o. More information c...

Die Umsetzung des CoI-Komplexes [(TIMMNmes)CoI](PF6) (1) (TIMMNmes=tris-[2-(3-Mesityl-imidazolin-2-yliden)-methyl]amin) mit Mesitylazid ergibt das CoIII-Imid [(TIMMNmes)CoIII(NMes)](PF6) (2). Folgende Oxidation [FeCp2](PF6) ermöglicht den Zugang zu dem seltenen CoIII-Imidylkomplex [(TIMMNmes)Co(NMes)](PF6)2 (3). Einkristall-Röntgenstrukturanalyse und ESR-Spektroskopie bestätigen die molekulare ...

Four dinuclear CoII complexes have been synthesized and structurally characterized with the dinucleating ligand susan (susan=4,7-dimethyl-1,1,10,10-tetra(2-pyridylmethyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazadecane) varying in exogeneous ligands: [(susan){CoII(CH3CN)2}2](PF6)4, [(susan){CoIICl}2](ClO4)2, [(susan){CoIIBr}2](ClO4)2, [(susan){CoII(μ-OH)CoII}](ClO4)3. The ions are six-coordinate CH3CN ligands five-coo...

an octahedral cobalt(iii) complex, trans-[(me2bpb)co(bzlan)2]clo4 (1), with h2me2bpb = n,n’-(4,5-dimethyl-1,2-phenylene)dipicolinamide and bzlan = benzylamine, has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, ir, uv-vis, and 1h nmr spectroscopy. the structure of this complex has been determined by x-ray crystallography. the me2bpb2– is a di-anionic tetradentate ligand furnishing a ...

By employing the HSAB principle and “assisted self-assembly” approach using 2-pyridylaldoximate (pao−) as primary ligand pivalate (piv−) ancillary co-ligand, tetranuclear [CoIII2LnIII2(NO3)4(pao)4(piv)4] complex polynuclear compounds were isolated (Ln = Dy, Gd, Tb, Pr, Y). The structure of Dy(III) was determined via single-crystal X-ray crystallography, revealing a metal topology two {CoIIIDyII...