Artificial hydrogenases: assembly of an H-cluster analogue within a functionalised poly(pyrrole) matrix

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Nov 21;46(43):8189-91. doi: 10.1039/c0cc02962a. Epub 2010 Oct 5.

Abstract

We show that a redox active {Fe(4)S(4)}(2+)-cubane assembly covalently bound within a cysteinyl-alkylammonium functionalised polypyrrole can be modified with a diiron dithiolate carbonyl unit to give an artificial hydrogenase H-cluster framework confined within the polymer matrix.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Electrodes
  • Hydrogenase / chemistry*
  • Hydrogenase / metabolism
  • Iron-Sulfur Proteins / chemistry*
  • Iron-Sulfur Proteins / metabolism
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Polymers / chemistry*
  • Pyrroles / chemistry*
  • Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared

Substances

  • Iron-Sulfur Proteins
  • Polymers
  • Pyrroles
  • polypyrrole
  • iron hydrogenase
  • Hydrogenase