Synthesis, structure and biomimetic properties of Cu(II)–Cu(II) and Cu(II)–Zn(II) binuclear complexes: possible models for the chemistry of Cu–Zn superoxide dismutase

Macrocyclic copper(II) complexes: Superoxide scavenging activity, structural studies and cytotoxicity evaluation

“…The superoxide scavenging activities of the complexes under study are in the same range of those reported for other metal complexes [43][44][45]. However, compounds with higher activity (e.g.…”

Design, synthesis, and characterization of a series of biologically active copper(II) Schiff-base coordination compounds

“…values. This finding is in line with increased ligand field operating through g ¼ 2.0023 þ n[E 0 À E n ] [31]. The geometric parameter G, a measure of the exchange of interaction between the copper centers in a polycrystalline solid, has been calculated.…”

Speciation study of an imidazolate-bridged copper(II)–zinc(II) complex in aqueous solution

“…The syntheses and characterisation of imidazolate-bridged copper(II)-zinc(II) heterobinuclear complexes were of interest too, since the discovery of the imidazolate-bridged active centre in SOD enzymes. The structure, magnetic and electrochemical properties and in some cases the SOD activity of these complexes have been investigated [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. The SOD activities of these low molecular weight model complexes were lower than that of the native enzyme (see later, together with the activities of the complexes of this study).…”