Physical chemistry: Unique peculiarities of the structure of the Fe - Mo cofactor of nitrogenase favorable for multicenter coordination of a nitrogen molecule

Russian Chemical Bulletin

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1827-1832

  Shestakov, A F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Coordination of molecular nitrogen; Fe Mo cofactor; Nitrogenase; Quantum chemical modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042283217     PISSN: 10665285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01457757     Document Type: Article

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