Luigi Casella

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Heme-peptide complexes as peroxidase models
    Comptes Rendus Chimie, vol. 10, no. 4-5, pp. 380–391, 2007
  2. Active catalytic centers in silica-supported Cu(II) and Mn(II) biomimetic complexes: Correlation between catalytic and EPR data
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 261, no. 2, pp. 306–317, 2007
  3. A new dinuclear heme-copper complex derived from functionalized protoporphyrin IX
    Dalton Transactions, no. 21, p. 2197, 2007
  4. Enzymatic and spectroscopic studies on the activation or inhibition effects by substituted phenolic compounds in the oxidation of aryldiamines and catechols catalyzed by Rhus vernicifera laccase
    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 100, no. 12, pp. 2127–2139, 2006
  5. Reactive nitrogen species generated by heme proteins: Mechanism of formation and targets
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 250, no. 11-12, pp. 1286–1293, 2006
  6. Easy Oxidation and Nitration of Human Myoglobin by Nitrite and Hydrogen Peroxide
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 749–757, 2006
  7. Mechanistic Insight into the Activity of Tyrosinase from Variable-Temperature Studies in an Aqueous/Organic Solvent
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 2504–2514, 2006
  8. Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Halide and Nitrite Oxidation by Mammalian Heme Peroxidases
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2006, no. 19, pp. 3801–3811, 2006
  9. METALLOENZYMES AND CHEMICAL BIOMIMETICS
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2006, no. 18, pp. 3545–3546, 2006
  10. pH-dependent redox and CO binding properties of chelated protoheme-l-histidine and protoheme-glycyl-l-histidine complexes
    JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 153–167, 2005
  11. Synthesis and characterization of new chiral octadentate nitrogen ligands and related copper(II) complexes as catalysts for stereoselective oxidation of catechols
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 235, no. 1-2, pp. 271–284, 2005
  12. Interpenetrated networks from a novel nanometer-sized pseudopeptidic ligand, bridging water, and transition metal ions with cds topology
    Chemical Communications, no. 30, p. 3859, 2005
  13. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 127, no. 51, pp. 18031–18036, 2005
  14. Models for biological trinuclear copper clusters. Characterization and enantioselective catalytic oxidation of catechols by the copper(ii) complexes of a chiral ligand derived from (S)-(?)-1,1?-binaphthyl-2,2?-diamineElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Synthetic details for the preparation of the ligand (S)-(+)-N,N?-dimethyl-N,N?-bis{3-[bis-(1-methyl-2-benzimidazolylmethyl)amino]-propyl}-1,1?-binaphthyl-2,2?-diamine, (S)?L, with all the spectral data for the intermediates involved, and representative paramagnetic 1H NMR spectra of the complex [Cu3(S)?L]6+ showing the pH and temperature dependence of the spectra (Figs. 1S and 2S). See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/dt/b4/b402539c/
    Dalton Transactions, no. 14, p. 2192, 2004
  15. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 43, no. 21, pp. 6805–6814, 2004
  16. Probing the location of the substrate binding site of ascorbate oxidase near type 1 copper: an investigation through spectroscopic, inhibition and docking studies
    The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 881–892, 2004
  17. New aspects of the reactivity of tyrosinase
    Micron, vol. 35, no. 1-2, pp. 141–142, 2004
  18. Nitrite increases the enantioselectivity of sulfoxidation catalyzed by myoglobin derivatives in the presence of hydrogen peroxide
    Tetrahedron, vol. 60, no. 37, pp. 8153–8160, 2004
  19. Metmyoglobin-Catalyzed Exogenous and Endogenous Tyrosine Nitration by Nitrite and Hydrogen Peroxide
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 2281–2290, 2004
  20. Engineering and Prosthetic-Group Modification of Myoglobin: Peroxidase Activity, Chemical Stability and Unfolding Properties
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2004, no. 11, pp. 2203–2213, 2004
  21. Mechanistic insight into the catechol oxidase activity by a biomimetic dinuclear copper complex
    JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 903–913, 2004
  22. Catalytic activity, stability, unfolding, and degradation pathways of engineered and reconstituted myoglobins
    JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 11–24, 2004
  23. Modified Microperoxidases Exhibit Different Reactivity Towards Phenolic Substrates
    ChemBioChem, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 1692–1699, 2004
  24. Mechanistic insight into the peroxidase catalyzed nitration of tyrosine derivatives by nitrite and hydrogen peroxide
    European Journal of Biochemistry, vol. 271, no. 5, pp. 895–906, 2004
  25. Peroxidase catalyzed nitration of tryptophan derivatives. Mechanism, products and comparison with chemical nitrating agents
    European Journal of Biochemistry, vol. 271, no. 13, pp. 2841–2852, 2004
  26. The Magnetic Properties of Myoglobin as Studied by NMR Spectroscopy
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 2316–2322, 2003
  27. Synthesis and Conformational Studies of a Chiral Octadentate Ligand Derived from (R)-1,1'-Binaphthyl-2,2'-diamine and its Dinuclear Zinc(II) and Nickel(II) Complexes
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2003, no. 21, pp. 3934–3944, 2003
  28. Structure and Reactivity Studies on Dinuclear Copper Complexes of the Ligand a,a'-Bis{bis[1-(1'-methyl-2'-benzimidazolyl)methyl]amino}-m-xylene
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2003, no. 6, pp. 1197–1205, 2003
  29. Catecholate Adducts of Binuclear Copper Complexes Modelling the Type 3 Copper Active Site— Spectroscopic Characterization and Relevance to the Tyrosinase Reaction
    Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, vol. 629, no. 1213, pp. 2258–2265, 2003
  30. Reactivity study on microperoxidase-8
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 770–776, 2003
  31. Validation of paramagnetic cross correlation rates for solution structure determination of high spin iron(III) heme proteins
    Chemical Physics Letters, 2003
  32. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 14, pp. 4185–4198, 2003
  33. The phenol ortho-oxygenation by mononuclear copper(i) complexes requires a dinuclear µ-η2�η2-peroxodicopper(ii) complex rather than mononuclear CuO2 species
    Chemical Communications, no. 6, pp. 726–727, 2003
  34. Enantio-differentiating catalytic oxidation by a biomimetic trinuclear copper complex containing l-histidine residues
    Chemical Communications, no. 17, p. 2186, 2003
  35. Stereoselective catalytic oxidations of biomimetic copper complexes with a chiral trinucleating ligand derived from 1,1-binaphthalene
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 204-205, pp. 381–389, 2003
  36. Selectivity in the peroxidase catalyzed oxidation of phenolic sulfides
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 204-205, pp. 391–400, 2003
  37. Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 277–285, 2002
  38. Characterization and Peroxidase Activity of a Myoglobin Mutant Containing a Distal Arginine
    ChemBioChem, vol. 3, no. 2-3, pp. 226–233, 2002
  39. Tyrosinase-catalyzed Oxidation of Fluorophenols
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 277, no. 47, pp. 44606–44612, 2002
  40. Enzymatic properties of human hemalbumin
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology, vol. 1547, no. 2, pp. 302–312, 2001
  41. Covalently modified microperoxidases as heme-peptide models for peroxidases
    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 79, no. 1-4, pp. 31–40, 2000
  42. Biochemistry, vol. 39, no. 31, pp. 9571–9582, 2000
  43. Reversible Dioxygen Binding and Phenol Oxygenation in a Tyrosinase Model System
    Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 519–522, 2000
  44. Copper complexes of a new tridentate imidazole-containing ligand: spectroscopy, structures and nitrite reductase reactivity The molecular structures of [Cu(biap)(NO2)2] and [Cu(biap)Br2]
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 310, no. 1, pp. 41–50, 2000
  45. Binding of nitrite and its reductive activation to nitric oxide at biomimetic copper centers
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 251–261, 2000
  46. Inhibition of the catecholase activity of biomimetic dinuclear copper complexes by kojic acid
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 262–268, 2000
  47. Inhibitor binding studies on ascorbate oxidase
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 185-186, no. 1, pp. 619–628, 1999
  48. Functional mimics of copper enzymes. Synthesis and stereochemical properties of the copper(II) complexes of a trinucleating ligand derived from ?-histidine
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 281–295, 1999
  49. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 38, no. 23, pp. 5359–5369, 1999
  50. Analysis of the secondary structure of the catalytic domain of mouse Ras exchange factor CDC25Mm
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology, vol. 1383, no. 2, pp. 292–300, 1998
  51. Isolation of the met-derivative intermediate in the catalase-like activity of deoxygenated Octopus vulgaris hemocyanin
    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 72, no. 3-4, pp. 211–215, 1998
  52. Biochemistry, vol. 37, no. 40, pp. 14065–14077, 1998
  53. Synthesis, characterization and stereoselective catalytic oxidations of chelated deuterohaemin-glycyl-L-histidine complexes
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 273, no. 1-2, pp. 339–345, 1998
  54. Synthetic models for biological trinuclear copper clusters. Trinuclear and binuclear complexes derived from an octadentate tetraamine-tetrabenzimidazole ligand
    Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 282, no. 2, pp. 180–192, 1998
  55. Tyrosinase-catecholic substrates in Vitro model: kinetic studies on the o-quinone/o-semiquinone radical formation
    Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 61–69, 1997
  56. Biochemistry, vol. 36, no. 16, pp. 4852–4859, 1997
  57. Biochemistry, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1918–1926, 1997
  58. Cytochrome c oxidase models. Dinuclear iron/copper complexes derived from covalently modified deuteroporphyrins
    Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, vol. 117, no. 1-3, pp. 199–204, 1997
  59. Copper monooxygenase models. Aromatic hydroxylation by a dinuclear copper(I) complex containing methionine sulfur ligands
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, no. 24, pp. 4789–4794, 1997
  60. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 439–444, 1996
  61. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1101–1113, 1996
  62. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 26, pp. 7516–7525, 1996
  63. Separation of organic acids by capillary zone electrophoresis in buffers containing divalent metal cations
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 745, no. 1-2, pp. 93–101, 1996
  64. Cytochrome c oxidase models. A novel dinuclear iron?copper complex derived from a covalently modified deuteroporphyrin?L-histidine?bis(benzimidazole) ligand
    Chemical Communications, no. 14, p. 1645, 1996
  65. Biochemistry, vol. 33, no. 21, pp. 6377–6386, 1994
  66. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 2056–2067, 1993
  67. Enantioselective epoxidation of styrene derivatives by chloroperoxidase catalysis
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 1325–1330, 1993
  68. Chloroperoxidase and hydrogen peroxide: An efficient system for enzymatic enantioselective sulfoxidations.
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 95–106, 1992
  69. Biochemistry, vol. 31, no. 39, pp. 9451–9459, 1992
  70. Model monooxygenase reactivity by binuclear two-coordinate copper(I) complexes extends to new ligand systems containing nitrogen and sulphur donors
    Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, no. 18, p. 1235, 1991
  71. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 110, no. 13, pp. 4221–4227, 1988
  72. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 1293–1303, 1986
  73. Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 2825–2835, 1979