Johnson Brittany J, Antholine William E, Lindeman Sergey V, Mankad Neal P
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jul 28;51(59):11860-3. doi: 10.1039/c5cc04675k.
To model the (His)7Cu4Sn (n = 1 or 2) active sites of nitrous oxide reductase, the first Cu4(μ4-S) cluster supported only by nitrogen donors has been prepared using amidinate supporting ligands. Structural, magnetic, spectroscopic, and computational characterization is reported. Electrochemical data indicates that the 2-hole model complex can be reduced reversibly to the 1-hole state and irreversibly to the fully reduced state.