A tyrosinase model system. Phenol ortho-hydroxylation by a binuclear three-coordinate copper(I) complex and dioxygen

Authors:

LCLuigi Casella
Luigi Casella
MGMichele Gullotti
Michele Gullotti
RRRoberto Radaelli
Roberto Radaelli
PGPatrizia Di Gennaro
Patrizia Di Gennaro

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1 January 1991

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 22,p. 1611-1612
DOI:10.1039/c39910001611

Abstract

The binuclear three-coordinate copper(I) complex 1 derived from a polybenzimidazole ligand exhibits tyrosinase-like activity on exogenous phenols.

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