Enzymes
This enzyme plays a role in the global nitrogen cycle because it is responsible for catalyzing the aerobic oxidation of L-Arginine into L-Citrulline to release nitric oxide.
What is Nitric Oxide Synthase?
This subshell is very important for transition metal chemistry.
What are the d orbitals?
This equation lets us use the absorption axis in a UV spectrum to determine the concentration of whatever might be in our cuvette. That is, if you know the extinction coefficient.
What is Beer Lambert's Law?
This technique measures changes in the dipole moment of molecules and it is commonly used to identify functional groups and shed light on ambiguous bond orders.
What is IR spectroscopy?
This scientist proved that chromium is not necessary in a human body.
Who is Dr. John Vincent?
These enzymes use an axial histidine to "push" them towards their goal of oxygen activation.
What are peroxidases?
This transition metal occurs naturally, but is very scarce and highly radioactive so it is most commonly generated for commercial/ research use. Maybe that's why it looks different from its neighbors on the periodic table.
What is Technetium?
This is the term given to molecules that prove to be good to study using UV-Vis, often due to their high conjugation.
What is a chromophore?
This form of spectroscopy provides information about the electron density within a sample. A skilled chemist can use this information to determine the structure of a molecule.
What is X-Ray Crystallography?
N-Heterocyclic Carbenes have a second name that takes after this former UA professor.
Who is Anthony Arduengo?
This oxygen-activating enzyme catalyzes the synthesis of estrogens.
What is Aromatase?
This geometry is seldom observed outside of d8 metal complexes.
What is square planar?
This feature around 400-500 nm is from an intense pi to pi* transition in the porphyrin ring.
What is a Soret band?
This technique uses inelastic scattering, Stokes and anti-Stokes, to measure changes in polarizability of a molecule/ functional group.
What is Raman Spectroscopy?
This woman won a portion of the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work with engineering enzymes for industrial applications. Many of these enzymes also contained heme cofactors.
Who is Dr. Frances Arnold?
This enzyme also plays a role in the nitrogen cycle by taking nitrite and turning it into nitric oxide.
What is Nitrite Reductase?
This step seen in some catalytic cycles involves a two electron donation from the metal to one or two ligands to increase the coordination number.
What is an Oxidative Addition?
This "forbidden" transition is often responsible for the beautiful colors of transition metal complexes.
What is a d to d transition?
This type of spectroscopy excites spin-active nuclei in primarily diamagnetic molecules to gain information about their structure.
What is NMR?
This scientist studied under multiple Nobel laureates before starting their own independent career. They now are the world leader in computational studies involving fluorinated compounds. Also, they have developed a method which bears their name that allows highly accurate computations to be done at a relatively low cost.
Who is Dr. David Dixon?
This plant and bacteria enzyme contains a heme cofactor and an Fe/S cluster that plays an important role in the formation of H2S from SO3-.
What is Sulfite Reductase?
This orbital is the result of the combination of the x2-z2 and the y2-z2 orbitals.
What is the d z2 orbital?
Like Earth's Sun, this type of radiation is the source of our photons in a UV-Vis Spectrometer.
What is black-body radiation?
This spectroscopy provides information about the spin state of paramagnetic molecules.
What is EPR?
This UA professor developed the machine learning department at CERN.
Who is Dr. Sergei Gleyzer?