Faraday Discussion 148 on the topic of Spectroscopy, Theory and Mechanism in Bioinorganic Chemistry was held last week at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
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Ed Solomon (Stanford, USA) and Les Dutton (Pennsylvania, USA) gave insightful Introductory and Closing Lectures, respectively, and there were great talks from invited speakers including: Gerard Canters, Peng Chen, Fraser MacMillan, Frank Neese, Arwen Pearson, Per Siegbahn and Walter Thiel.
Themes which were covered in the lively discussion included:
• Copper chemistry. Redox behaviour, oxygen binding, multi-copper centres, catalysis and mechanisms
• Haem and non-haem iron, and other metal centres
• Insight from advanced spectroscopic methods, including time-resolved structural studies
• Reaction mechanisms: what do we learn from computation and spectroscopy?
• Computational techniques: DFT, QM/MM, MD, and much, much more….
