Increasing interest in mononuclear nonheme iron enzymes that activate dioxygen has resulted in an explosion of information on such enzymes in recent years. Concomitantly, efforts to model the active sites of these enzymes have produced synthetic complexes capable of mimicking some aspect of the reactivity of the metal center in several enzymes. These functional models carry out oxidative transformations analogous to those catalyzed by the enzymes and in some cases allow iron(III)-peroxo or iron(IV)-oxo intermediates to be trapped and characterized.

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单核非血红素铁酶的功能模型。

近年来，对激活双氧的单核非血红素铁酶的兴趣日益增加，导致有关此类酶的信息激增。伴随地，对这些酶的活性位点进行建模的努力已经产生了能够模拟几种酶中金属中心反应性的某些方面的合成复合物。这些功能模型进行的氧化转化类似于酶催化的氧化转化，在某些情况下，可以捕获和表征铁（III）-过氧或铁（IV）-氧。