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Published on: December 4, 2017
On the electronic structure of the hydrogenase H-cluster
David E Schwab1, Cedric Tard, Eric Brecht
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59718, USA.
Abstract:
X-ray absorption spectroscopic measurements and density functional calculations suggest that the hydrogenase H-cluster is best described as an electronically inseparable 6Fe-cluster due to extensive delocalization of frontier molecular orbitals of the iron centres, sulfide and the non-innocent dithiolate ligands.
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