DENSITYFUNCTIONALTHEORY OFBIOLOGICALLYRELEVANTMETALCENTERS
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
- Vol. 50 (1), 221-249
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.physchem.50.1.221
Abstract
Recent applications of density functional theory to biologically relevant metal centers are reviewed. The emphasis is on reaction mechanisms, structures, and modeling. The accuracy of different functionals is discussed for standard benchmark tests of first- and second-row molecules and for transition metal systems. Modeling aspects of the protein metal complexes are discussed regarding both the size of the model being treated quantum mechanically and the treatment of the protein surrounding it. To illustrate the effects, structures computed without the effects of the protein are compared with experimental structures from enzymes, and results from simple dielectric models of the protein for electron transfer processes are described. The choice of spin state is discussed for multimetal complexes. Examples of mechanisms studied recently by density functional theory are described, such as O2 and methane activation in methane monooxygenase and O2 formation in photosystem II.Keywords
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