Cover Feature: Kinetic Investigation of the Reaction of Dioxygen with the Copper(I) Complex [Cu(PimiPr2)(CH3CN)]CF3SO3 {PimiPr2 = Tris[2‐(1,4‐diisopropylimidazolyl)]phosphine} (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 33/2020)

• Published in: European journal of inorganic chemistry 2020-09, Vol.2020 (33), p.3116-3116
• Main Authors: Lerch, Markus, Weitzer, Markus, Stumpf, Tim‐Daniel J., Laurini, Larissa, Hoffmann, Alexander, Becker, Jonathan, Miska, Andreas, Göttlich, Richard, Herres‐Pawlis, Sonja, Schindler, Siegfried
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1434-1948; 1099-0682
• DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202000760

The Cover Feature shows a spiny lobster, an animal that has blue blood, based on the oxygen transport copper protein hemocyanin. The reversible uptake of dioxygen is difficult to model with low molecular weight complexes; it usually can only be accomplished at low temperatures in aprotic solvents. An exception is the shown complex that can mimic this reaction in methanol. A detailed kinetic study on this complex has been performed, and the results are important for a better understanding of selective oxidation reactions in the chemical industry. The protein structure on the top left corner, for a different spiny lobster than that shown in the photograph, was obtained from the protein structural data bank – Panulirus japonicus, www.rcsb.org: T. Masuda, S. Baba, K. Matsuo, S. Ito, B. Mikami (2020) The Protein Data Bank, Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 688, 108370. More information can be found in the Full Paper by S. Schindler et al.