New Bioinorganic Compounds

Dear Colleagues,

Crystallography has been linked to biology from the very beginning. Notable examples include the characterization of biomolecules and related bioinorganic compounds, such as the first crystallized protein, urease, by James B. Summer in 1926, which is a nickel-containing enzyme that was confirmed in 1975 by Burt Zerner and colleagues; the structure of vitamin B₁₂ by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1956; and the X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA molecules by Rosalind E. Franklin in 1952, which helped James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick to postulate in 1953 the DNA double helical structure.

Even nowadays, one of the fundamental pillars of modern bioinorganic chemistry is the determination of high-resolution structures of biologically-relevant molecules, as well as other related and model compounds with biological activity or medicinal applications.

In this Special Issue of Crystals, titled “New Bioinorganic Compounds”, our aim is to explore the growing field of bioinorganic chemistry from a structural point of view. We invite you to contribute with manuscripts that including different aspects of bioinorganic chemistry, such as the following:

• Biomolecules structure;
• Model compounds for active centres;
• Study of non-covalent interactions;
• Bio-inspired coordination chemistry;
• Bio-active molecules;
• Crystallization research.

Dr. Miquel Barceló-Oliver
Dr. Alicia Dominguez-Martin
Guest Editors

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