F. A. Cotton Award to K. D. Karlin

摘要

Kenneth D. Karlin (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) was awarded by the ACS with the F. Albert Cotton Prize for synthetic inorganic chemistry. He is thus recognized for his work on coordination chemistry in biological and environmental processes, in particular for his studies of copper and porphyrin complexes. His research group is especially interested in the synthesis of biomimetic model compounds, which are characterized by EPR spectroscopy and kinetic, electrochemical, and magnetic measurements. He recently reported in Angewandte Chemie on modeling C-H hydroxyla-tion by copper monooxygenase using a copper(II) superoxo complex and on the formation of doubly coordinated bis(histidine) complexes from copper(I) ions and amyloid p-peptide fragments.