Bioinorganic chemistry

Bioinorganic chemistry is a field that examines the role of metals in biology. Bioinorganic chemistry includes the study of both natural phenomena such as the behavior of metalloproteins as well as artificially introduced metals, including those that are non-essential, in medicine and toxicology. Many biological processes such as respiration depend upon molecules that fall within the realm of inorganic chemistry. The discipline also includes the study of inorganic models or mimics that imitate the behaviour of metalloproteins.^[1]

As a mix of biochemistry and inorganic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry is important in elucidating the implications of electron-transfer proteins, substrate bindings and activation, atom and group transfer chemistry as well as metal properties in biological chemistry. The successful development of truly interdisciplinary work is necessary to advance bioinorganic chemistry.^[2]

^ Stephen J. Lippard, Jeremy M. Berg, Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry, University Science Books, 1994, ISBN 0-935702-72-5
^ Gumerova, Nadiia I.; Rompel, Annette (2021-03-31). "Interweaving Disciplines to Advance Chemistry: Applying Polyoxometalates in Biology". Inorganic Chemistry. 60 (9): 6109–6114. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00125. ISSN 0020-1669. PMC 8154434. PMID 33787237.

[1] Stephen J. Lippard, Jeremy M. Berg, Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry, University Science Books, 1994, ISBN 0-935702-72-5

[2] Gumerova, Nadiia I.; Rompel, Annette (2021-03-31). "Interweaving Disciplines to Advance Chemistry: Applying Polyoxometalates in Biology". Inorganic Chemistry. 60 (9): 6109–6114. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00125. ISSN 0020-1669. PMC 8154434. PMID 33787237.

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