A manganese oxide with phenol groups as a promising structural model for water oxidizing complex in Photosystem II: a 'golden fish'.
We describe here the ability of manganese oxide monosheets to aggregate to form layered structures with 4-aminophenol molecules. These aggregated monosheets could be considered as the first step to synthesize a self-assembled layered hybrid of phenol-manganese ions with phenol and manganese(III) and (IV) as exists in the water oxidizing complex of Photosystem II.
Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, 45137-66731, Iran. mmnajafpour@iasbs.ac.ir
Mohammad Mahdi
MM
Najafpour
Mahmoud Amouzadeh
MA
Tabrizi
Behzad
B
Haghighi
Govindjee
D000627:Aminophenols / Q000737:chemistry*; D017895:Manganese Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010087:Oxides / Q000737:chemistry*; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex / Q000737:chemistry*; D033362:Powder Diffraction; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
D000627:Aminophenols; D017895:Manganese Compounds; D010087:Oxides; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex; D014867:Water; C027424:manganese oxide; C026729:4-aminophenol