Why nature chose the Mn4CaO5 cluster as water-splitting catalyst in photosystem II: a new hypothesis for the mechanism of O–O bond formation

O2 evolution and recovery of the water-oxidizing enzyme

(2018) Keisuke Kawashima et al.   Nature Communications

Monitoring the Reaction Process During the S2 → S3 Transition in Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

(2017) Hiroki Sakamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reactive Pendant Mn═O in a Synthetic Structural Model of a Proposed S4 State in the Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolving Complex

(2017) Shivaiah Vaddypally et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The First State in the Catalytic Cycle of the Water-Oxidizing Enzyme: Identification of a Water-Derived μ-Hydroxo Bridge

(2017) Thomas Lohmiller et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-induced structural changes and the site of O=O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL

(2017) Michihiro Suga et al.   NATURE

Nucleophilic water attack is not a possible mechanism for O–O bond formation in photosystem II

(2017) Per E. M. Siegbahn   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defective and “c-Disordered” Hortensia-like Layered MnOx as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation at Neutral pH

(2017) Biaobiao Zhang et al.   ACS Catalysis

Sequential and Coupled Proton and Electron Transfer Events in the S2 → S3 Transition of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Revealed by Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

(2016) Ivelina Zaharieva et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Manganese Compounds as Water-Oxidizing Catalysts: From the Natural Water-Oxidizing Complex to Nanosized Manganese Oxide Structures

(2016) Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Recent developments in biological water oxidation

(2016) Montserrat Pérez-Navarro et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Mechanism of Water Delivery to the Active Site of Photosystem II along the S2 to S3 Transition

(2016) Matteo Capone et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Cerium(IV)-Driven Water Oxidation Catalyzed by a Manganese(V)-Nitrido Complex

(2015) Li Ma et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Structure of Photosystem II and the Mechanism of Water Oxidation in Photosynthesis

(2015) Jian-Ren Shen   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Photosynthetic water oxidation: binding and activation of substrate waters for O–O bond formation

(2015) David J. Vinyard et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Chemical Equilibrium Models for the S3 State of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II

(2015) Hiroshi Isobe et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Structural rearrangements preceding dioxygen formation by the water oxidation complex of photosystem II

(2015) Han Bao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metal oxidation states in biological water splitting

(2015) Vera Krewald et al.   Chemical Science

Photosynthetic water oxidation: binding and activation of substrate waters for O–O bond formation

(2015) David J. Vinyard et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Mn4Ca Cluster in Photosynthesis: Where and How Water is Oxidized to Dioxygen

(2014) Junko Yano et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Native structure of photosystem II at 1.95 Å resolution viewed by femtosecond X-ray pulses

(2014) Michihiro Suga et al.   NATURE

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

Two Interconvertible Structures that Explain the Spectroscopic Properties of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II in the S2State

(2012) Dimitrios A. Pantazis et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Why nature chose Mn for the water oxidase in Photosystem II

(2012) Ron J. Pace et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Oxygen evolution from BF3/MnO4−

(2011) Shek-Man Yiu et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å

(2011) Yasufumi Umena et al.   NATURE

Structures and Energetics for O2Formation in Photosystem II

(2009) Per E. M. Siegbahn   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Why did Nature choose manganese to make oxygen?

(2007) F. A Armstrong   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES