Bioinorganic Chemistry

This book covers material that could be included in Bioinorganic Chemistry course for undergraduate and advanced undergraduate students in Chemistry and Biochemistry. . Each chapter presents material at a more advanced level than that of other Bioinorganic textbook and provides students with the necessary background required to follow the research literature in the field. What the contributors have done in each chapter is to teach the underlying principles of bioinorganic chemistry as well as the state of knowledge in selected areas. Contents: Transition-Metal Storage, Transport, and Biomineralization 2. Reaction Pathways of Zinc Enzymes and Related Biological Catalysts 3. Calcium in Biological Systems 4. Biological and Synthetic Dioxygen Carriers 5. Dioxygen Reactions 6. Electron Transfer 7. Ferredoxins, Hydrogenases, and Nitrogenases: Metal--Sulfide Proteins 8. MetalNucleic-Acid Interactions 9. Metals in Medicine