“…Investigations of the catalytic activity of enzyme mimics by both chemists and biologists, have helped to understand the functions of the metal ions and ligands in natural enzymes. 2,3 Previous studies [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] on the catalytic hydrolysis of phosphate esters to mimic hydrolytic metalloenzymes involved a large number of complexes of such metal ions as Co 3+ , Ir 3+ , Cu 2+ , Zn 2+ , Co 2+ , Ni 2+ , Pd 2+ , Pt 2+ and La 3+ etc., and ligands with such electron donating atoms as N and O. The studies of Schneider et al 13 and Roigk et al 14 showed that complexes with transition metal ions laying in a crown ring are catalytically effective for phosphatic diester hydrolysis.…”