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Coordination Sphere of Blue Copper Proteins

A. Medved

Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract: By unambiguous assignments of maxima in the spectra of copper proteins, the constituent ions in the complexes have been established and as a consequence it was possible to distinguish the mode of their catalytic function. A bonding scheme is also proposed to account for the intensity of the blue colour.The unambiguity of spectroscopic assignments resulted from theoretical calculations based upon Slater's principle of atomic shielding constants supplemented by coefficients and a formula for molecules by Medved.

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Chemical Papers 52 (5) 655–661 (1998)