Chemical Communications 2001-09-21

Oxoanionic or sulfur lone pair attack? The difference in reactivity of hydrogensulfite anion and neutral dimethylsulfite towards [Bu4N]2[MoO2(S2C2)CN)2)2] in the model reductive half reaction of sulfite oxidase.

K Nagarajan, P K Chaudhury, B R Srinivasan, S Sarkar

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (18) , 1786-7, (2001)

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Abstract

pH dependent reactivity differences of dimethylsulfite towards the title complex 1 demonstrate the crucial need of oxo-anionic coordination of sulfite to the molybdenum centre of 1 in the model reductive half reaction of sulfite oxidase.