Joshua Buss

Synthesis and Electronic Structure Elucidation of Bioinspired Heterobimetallic Nickel Complexes Despite relevance to metalloenzyme active-sites, the selective synthesis of heterobimetallic compounds featuring unbiased, biologically relevant coordination environments remains a challenge. Herein, we disclose a stepwise synthetic strategy, leveraging kinetic stabilization by an alkali metal cation, as a means of accessing spectroscopically pure M(II)/Ni(II) (M = Co & Cu) bimetallics.