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Why Does the Active Form of Galactose Oxidase Possess a Diamagnetic Ground State

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The relative orientation of the two magnetic orbitals, the CuII d’ x 2-y‬2 orbital and the half-occupied π orbital of the tyrosyl radical, is the key to answering the question in the title.
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The relative orientation of the two magnetic orbitals, the CuII d x 2-y 2 orbital and the half-occupied π orbital of the tyrosyl radical, is the key to answering the question in the title. The arrangement shown (CuII -O-C bond angle of about 130° and a dihedral angle of about 90° between the x,y plane of the CuII polyhedron and the tyrosyl ring plane) leads to an overlap of the orbitals, which results in a singlet ground state.

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General Predictive Syntheses of Cubic, Hexagonal, and Lamellar Silica and Titania Mesostructured Thin Films§

TL;DR: In this paper, a cubic mesostructure with crystalline TiO2 (anatase) in the walls, stable to 400 °C, was synthesized by varying the volume ratio between the copolymer and inorganic components of the precursor solution.
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Aerobic Oxidation of Primary Alcohols (Including Methanol) by Copper(II)− and Zinc(II)−Phenoxyl Radical Catalysts

TL;DR: The tetradentate ligand N,N-bis(3,5-di-tert-butyl-2-hydroxyphenyl)-1,2-phenylenediamine, H4L1, has been prepared as mentioned in this paper.
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Understanding the copper–phenoxyl radical array in galactose oxidase: contributions from synthetic modeling studies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors surveyed the progress toward the synthesis and structural and spectroscopic characterization of model complexes of the galactose oxidase (GAO) active site and concluded with a description of more recent discoveries of catalytic reactivity by Cu(II)-phenoxyl radical species that replicate and provide insights into GAO function.
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Ligands that Store and Release Electrons during Catalysis

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Monolithic Mesoporous Silica Templated by Microemulsion Liquid Crystals

TL;DR: In this paper, a generalized method for the synthesis of periodic mesoporous silica by direct liquid crystal templating in multicomponent surfactant and cosurfactant systems is presented.
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