Cobalt Complex Model for Oxygen Binding

Bioinorganic chemistry studies how metals help living systems work. Many proteins contain metals, and some depend on metal-containing active sites to function. Proteins with metals are called metalloproteins. They help carry out important cell functions needed for life.

One major role of metallop...

[N,N'-Bis(salicylaldehyde)ethylenediimino]cobalt(II), abbreviated [Co(salen)]2, is an organometallic complex, which is used to investigate oxygen-transporting metalloproteins.

Metalloproteins such as hemoglobin can reversibly bind O2 and to understand this mechanism, complexes such as [Co(salen)]2 are studied.

[Co(salen)]2 exists in ...