BIOINORGANIC SPECTROSCOPY SYMPOSIUM

San Francisco ACS Meeting April 13-16,1997

E. I. SOLOMON AND K. O. HODGSON ORGANIZERS

BIOINORGANIC SPECTROSCOPY

TUTORIAL I: Recent Advances in Ground State Methods

Chair: E. I. Solomon

SUNDAY AM

9:00 9:50 B. Hoffman (Structure of Enzyme Intermediates by ENDOR Spectroscopy)

9:50 10:40 E. Münck (Combining Mössbauer, EPR and Magnetic Susceptibility Studies)

10:40 11:30 A. Walker (Single-and Multidimensional NMR Studies of Paramagnetic Metal Complexes)

11:30 12:20 H. Freeman (Metalloprotein Crystallography)

TUTORIAL II: Recent Advances on Excited State Methods

Chair: K. O. Hodgson

SUNDAY PM

1:30 2:20 F. Tuczek (Recent Advances in Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy)

2:20 3:10 E. Pavel (Recent Advances in Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy)

3:10 4:00 T. Loehr (Recent Advances in Resonance Raman Spectroscopy)

4:00 4:50 S. Cramer (X-ray Spectroscopy)

4:50 5:40 L. Noodleman (Electronic Structure Calculations: Density Functional Calculations of Spin Polarization, Spin and Charge Transfer, and Solvent/Environmental Effects in Transition Metal Complexes)

MONDAY PM

BIOINORGANIC SPECTROSCOPY SYMPOSIUM I: Electron Transfer

Chair: B. Hedman

1:00 1:40 H. Gray (Spectroscopic Investigations of Protein-Folding Dynamics)

1:40 2:20 P. Stephens (Spectroscopic Studies of [3Fe-4S] [4Fe-4S] Interconversion in Azotobacter Vinelandii Ferredoxin I)

2:20 3:00 R. Czernuszewicz (Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Blue Copper & Iron Sulfur Proteins

3:00 3:40 T. Spiro (Bimetallic Activation in CO Dehydrogenase; Evidence From Metal-Ligand Resonance Raman Bands)

3:40 4:20 N. Blackburn (EXAFS Studies of the CuA Centers of Heme-Copper Oxidases: A Unique Metal-Metal Bonded Copper Cluster)

4:20 5:00 A. Thomson (The Electronic Structure of CuA: A Novel Mixed-Valence Dinuclear Copper Electron-Transfer Centre)

BIOINORGANIC SPECTROSCOPY SYMPOSIUM II: Cluster Interactions

Chair: J. Penner-Hahn

TUESDAY PM

1:00 1:40 R. Holm (Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Cuboidal and Cubane-Type Iron -Sulfur Clusters)

1:40 2:20 J.-J.Girerd (Double Exchange and Vibronic Trapping in Metal Clusters)

2:20 3:00 D. Britt (Pulsed EPR Studies of the Manganese Cluster of the OEC and its Interaction with Tyrosine Radical )

3:00 3:40 M. Johnson (Properties of Valance Delocalized [Fe2S2]+ Clusters in Mutant Forms of C.Pasteurianum 2Fe Ferredoxin)

3:40 4:20 I. Bertini (NMR of Iron Sulfur Systems)

4:20 5:00 K. Wieghardt (The Electronic Structure of Heterotrinuclear Thiophenolate Bridged Complexes: Localized vs Delocalized Models)

BIOINORGANIC SPECTROSCOPY SYMPOSIUM III: Active Site Geometric and Electronic Structure

Chair: P. J. Stephens

WEDNESDAY AM

8:30 9:10 S. Lippard (Spectroscopy of the Diiron Center in sMMO)

9:10 9:50 S. Chan (Structure and Function of the Cu Clusters in pMMO)

9:50 10:30 J. Penner-Hahn (X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Mn Enzymes)

10:30 11:10 J. Enemark (EPR and MCD Studies of Oxomolybdenum Centers in Sulfite Oxidase and Related Model Compounds)

11:10 11:50 K. Hodgson (X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Nitrogenase)

BIOINORGANIC SPECTROSCOPY SYMPOSIUM IV: Intermediates

Chair: K. Wieghardt

WEDNESDAY PM

1:30 2:10 L. P. Que (Spectroscopic Signatures of the High-Valent Fe2O2 Diamond Core)

2:10 2:50 G. Babcock (Proton Control in the Reduction of O2 by Cytochrome Oxidase)

2:50 3:30 J. Lipscomb (Intermediates in Non-heme Iron Dioxygenase Catalysis)

3:30 4:10 B. H. Huynh (Möšssbauer Characterization of Dinuclear Iron-Cluster

Intermediates in Biological Oxygen Activation Reactions)

4:10 4:50 E. Solomon (Copper Enzymes: Geometric and Electronic Structural Function Correlations)



GENERAL SESSION Physical Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry

Chair: R. Musselman

THURSDAY AM

R. F. Pasternack (Resonance Light Scattering for the Study of Molecular Assemblies)

R. L. Musselman (Single-Crystal Polarized Specular Reflectance Spectroscopy of Intense Electronic Transitions)

W. Hasse (Magnetic and Moessbauer-Investigations on Dimeric and Tetrameric Valence-Delocalized Fe(II)-Fe(III) - Complexes)

A. B. P. Lever (Ligand Electrochemical Parameters and Bio-inorganic Chemistry)

M. L. Kirk (Spectroscopic Studies of High Valent M=O Sites in Biology)

K. R. Williams (Ligand K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Applied to Bioinorganic Systems)

G. Blondin ("EPR studies of an artificial linear Mn(III)Mn(IV) 3 cluster with a S=1/2 ground state. Relevance to the OEC")

W. D. Horrocks, Jr. (Sensitized Near Infrared Emission from Ytterbium(III) via Electron Transfer (ER). New Lanthanide Ion Probes of Long-Range ET in Protein)

D. R. Gamelin (Electronic Structure of CuA-Type Centers in Cytochrome c Oxidase, Blue-Copper Mutants, and Related model Complexes)

G. Loew (Identification of Putative Peroxide Intermediates of Peroxidases by Electronic Structure and Spectra Calculations)

A.-F. Miller (NMR Studies of Proton Donation in Reduced Superoxide Dismutase: TYR 34 Can Explain the pK of 8.5.)

T. D. P. Stack (Spectroscopic Characterization of Discrete Cu Oxide Complexes: Full Reduction of Dioxygen by Simple Diamine Cu(I) Complexes)


POSTER SESSION ON BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY


TUESDAY EVENING

S. C. Payne (Outer Sphere Reaction of Dioxygen with a Diiron(II) complex: Formation and Properties of a Mixed-Valence Oxo Bridged Complex)

D. R. Gamelin (Electronic Structure of CuA-Type Centers in Cytochrome c Oxidase, Blue-Copper Mutants, and Related model Complexes)

S. K. Madsen (Model Complexes Hydrolysis Reactions for Understanding Hemozoin)

H. H. Zhang (Multiple-Edge XAS Studies of Iron-Copper Bridged Molecular Assemblies Relevant to Heme-Copper Oxidases)

D. W. Randall (Pulsed EPR Studies of Mn(III)Mn(IV) Model Compounds)

P. Basu (Stable Six-Coordinate Mononuclear Mono-Oxo-Molybdenum (VI) Centers as Models of BMSO Reductase)

D. E. Coufal (Nitric Oxide Adduct of the Reduced Non-Heme Iron Center in Soluble Methane Monooxygenase)

P. Kennepohl (Understanding Fe K-edge XAS pre-edge features; A Multiplet Analysis of the 1s®3d Final States)

P. S. DeMarois (Chloride Depletion Blocks NH2OH Reactivity and Affects the Structure of Mn in the S1 State of Photosystem II)

X. Ding (The Effect of Ortho-Substituents on the Reduction Potentials and Complex Stabilities of Unsymmetrically-Substituted Tetraphenylporphyrinatorion(III) Complexes)

E. V. Arnold (Oxygenation Reactions of Nitrosyl Myoglobin

Y. Dong (Model for the Reaction Intermediates of Methane Monooxygenase and Ribonucleotide Reductase)

K. E. Loeb (Spectroscopic Investigation of the Interaction of DNA with the Ferrous Sites of Bleomycin and Bleomycin Derivatives)

T. Glaser (Exchange Coupling with trivalent Sn- and Ge- Ions in Linear Trinuclear Complexes with Core Structure Fe(III) M(III) Fe(III) (M = Ge, Sn)

T. Holman (Spectroscopic and Mechanistic Studies of a Soybean Lipoxygenase Iron Coordination Mutant, N694H)

R. C. Holz (Proton NMR Spectroscopy as a Probe of Dicopper(II) Centers)

C. Krebs (Delocalized Fe(II/III)2-Compounds with S=9/2)

N. Lehnert (Activation of Diazene Coordinated to Fe(II)-Sulfur Complexes)

S. Mandal (Inorganic Host-Guest Chemistry in Polynuclear Carboxylato-Bridged-Iron(II) Clusters)

H. Ogura (1-D and 2-D Paramagnetic NMR of Non-Planar Low-Spin Iron(III) Prophyrin Complexes)

A. Pacheco (Kinetic and Thermodynamic Investigations of Sulfite Oxidase Using Laser Flash Photolysis)

K. Peariso (An EXAFS Investigation of the Zinc Binding Site in Cobalamin-Independent and Cobalamin-Dependent Methionine Synthase)

E. Pidcock (Spectral Studies of Copper Dioxygen Complexes)

E. Rentschler (Magneto-Structural Correlation in Pivaloato Bridged Mixed-Metal Complexes)

N. Shokhirev (2-D NMR Investigations of the Rotation of Axial Ligands in Six-Coordinate Low-Spin Fe(III) and Co(III) Tetraphenylporphyrinates

P. Tavares (Mšssbauer Spectroscopic and Kinetic Characterization of Ferric Clusters Formed in H-Chain Ferritin Mineralization)

M. Turner (Synthesis of a Model for the Molybdenum-Iron Interaction in Sulfite Oxidase Employing Sulfur Coordination at the Molybdenum Center)

B. L. Westcott (Single Crystal EPR Studies of LMo(o) (1,2-Benzenedithiol) (L=Hydrotris(3,5-Dimethlyprazolyl) Borate): Implications for the Molybdenum Center of Sulfite Oxidase.

Y. Yang (Circular Dichroism and Magnetic Circular Dichroism Studies of Binuclear Non-Heme Iron Enzymes)

J. A. Telser (EPR and ENDOR Studies of Native and Metal-Substituted Ferredoxins Isolated from the Hyperthermophyilic Archaeon Pyrococcus Furiosus)

B. T. Weldon (Correlation Between Magnetic Exchange Coupling and the Redox Properties of Oxo-Bis-Carboxylato Bridged Metal Complexes)

D. A. Force (An ESEEM Study of the Substrate Binding Site of Photosystem II)

K. S. Hagen (S=1/2 AND 9/2 Diiron Complexes Formed From Iron(II) Complexes)

W. A. Wehbi (Computational Analysis of Pterin Derivatives with Applications to Metalloenzymes)