The relationship between adenylate cyclase activity in the synaptic membrane fraction (M1) of rat brain and lipid peroxidation of these membranes was examined. In the presence of 5 mM dithiothreitol (DTT), 1 to 10 microM Fe/+ activated adenylate cyclase 2- to 4-fold. Of several metal ions, Fe2+ was the most effective. Other enzymes in M1, such as Mg2+-ATPase, (Na+-K+)-ATPase, 5'-nucleotidase, a...

The azadithiolate (SCH2NHCH2S) cofactor proposed to occur in the Fe-only hydrogenases forms efficiently by the condensation of Fe2(SH)2(CO)6 (1), formaldehyde, and ammonia (as (NH4)2CO3). The resulting Fe2[(SCH2)2NH](CO)6 reacts with Et4NCN to give (Et4N)2[Fe2[(SCH2)2NH](CO)4(CN)2], for which crystallographic characterization confirmed an axial N-H and an elongated C-S bond of 1.858(3) A. Prima...

A neutral mononuclear Fe(II) complex with spin crossover (SCO) properties, Fe2(SCN)2 (1) (L = 2-(2-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline), was solvothermally synthesized. It displays a new example of two-step SCO with Tc1↓ = 250 K, Tc1↑ = 260 K and Tc2 = 295 K.

Cytochrome P-450 (CYP) 2J4 is a member of the recently identified CYP2J subfamily-part of the CYP superfamily-and is primarily expressed in rat small intestinal epithelium (enterocytes). Studies to determine small intestinal CYP2J4 inducibility by prototypic CYP inducers have been undertaken. Immunoblot analysis of enterocyte microsomes from rats treated with beta-naphthoflavone, dexamethasone,...

Dinuclear iron carbonyl complex 2, which contains an elongated unsupported Fe-Fe bond, was synthesized by the reaction between Fe2(CO)9 and phosphinyl radical 1. Thermal Fe-Fe bond homolysis led to the generation of a four-coordinate carbonyl-based iron-centered radical, 3, which is stabilized by π-donation. Complex 3 exhibited high reactivity toward organic radicals to form diamagnetic five-co...

In the pyrazole mol-ecule of the title solvate, C15H13BrN4O2·C2H6OS, the dihedral angle between the benzene ring and the mean plane of the di-hydro-pyrano[2,3-c]pyrazole ring system [r.m.s deviation = 0.031 (2) Å] is 86.71 (14)°. In the crystal, the pyrazole mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds, forming a layer parallel to (10-1). The pyrazole and dimethyl sulfoxide mol-ecules are conn...

The complex [{(mu-SCH2)2N(CH2C6H4-2-Br)}Fe2(CO)6] and its N-protonated species, as structural models of the Fe-only hydrogenase active site, were identified spectroscopically and crystallographically, and their molecular structures show the 0.04-0.1 A lengthening of the three N-C bonds and an intramolecular HBr contact (2.82 Angstroms) in the crystalline state of the N-protonated species.

A facile precursor dependent single step, one pot solution based synthesis of wurtzite and chalcopyrite polymorphs of CuFeS2 has been developed by reacting a Cu(I) thiourea complex with Fe2(SO4)3 and FeCl3 separately in ethylene glycol. The phases have been characterized by structural refinements, SEM-EDX, TEM-SAED, Raman, UV-Visible spectroscopy and TGA measurements.

A liquid-helium temperature study of Fe2+ and Mn2+ ions has been carried out on a single crystal of Fe2+-doped ZnSiF(6).6H2O at 5-35K at 170, 222.4 and 333.2G Hz. The spectra are found to be an overlap of two magnetically inequivalent Fe2+ ions, as well as that of an Mn2+ ion. From the simulation of the EPR line positions for the Fe2+ (d6, S=2) ion the spin-Hamiltonian parameters were estimated...

The key factors governing the single-phase or multi-phase structural change behaviors during the intercalation/deintercalation of guest ions have not been well studied and understood yet. Through systematic studies of orthorhombic Fe2(MoO4)3 electrode, two distinct guest ion occupation paths, namely discrete one for Li and pseudo-continuous one for Na, as well as their relationship with single-...