Publications of Nicholas Cox

Lohmiller, T.; Krewald, V.; Sedoud, A.; Rutherford, A. W.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. The First State in the Catalytic Cycle of the Water-Oxidizing Enzyme: Identification of a Water-Derived μ-Hydroxo Bridge. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 14412–14424.

Paul, S.; Cox, N.; Pantazis, D. A. What Can We Learn from a Biomimetic Model of Nature’s Oxygen-Evolving Complex? Inorganic Chemistry 2017, 56, 3875–3888.

Pérez-Navarro, M.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. Recent Developments in Biological Water Oxidation. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 2016, 31, 113–119.

Krewald, V.; Retegan, M.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. Spin State as a Marker for the Structural Evolution of Nature’s Water-Splitting Catalyst. Inorganic Chemistry 2016, 55, 488–501.

Retegan, M.; Krewald, V.; Mamedov, F.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Cox, N.; Pantazis, D. A. A Five-Coordinate Mn(IV) Intermediate in Biological Water Oxidation: Spectroscopic Signature and a Pivot Mechanism for Water Binding. Chemical Science 2016, 7, 72–84.

Rapatskiy, L.; Ames, W. M.; Pérez-Navarro, M.; Savitsky, A.; Griese, J. J.; Weyhermüller, T.; Shafaat, H. S.; Högbom, M.; Neese, F.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. Characterization of Oxygen Bridged Manganese Model Complexes Using Multifrequency ¹⁷O-Hyperfine EPR Spectroscopies and Density Functional Theory. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2015, 119, 13904–13921.

Cox, N.; Pantazis, D. A.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W. Artificial Photosynthesis: Understanding Water Splitting in Nature. Interface Focus 2015, 5, 20150009.

Krewald, V.; Retegan, M.; Cox, N.; Messinger, J.; Lubitz, W.; DeBeer, S.; Neese, F.; Pantazis, D. A. Metal Oxidation States in Biological Water Splitting. Chemical Science 2015, 6, 1676–1695.

Retegan, M.; Cox, N.; Pantazis, D. A.; Neese, F. A First-Principles Approach to the Calculation of the on-Site Zero-Field Splitting in Polynuclear Transition Metal Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 53, 11785–11793.

Shafaat, H. S.; Griese, J. J.; Pantazis, D. A.; Roos, K.; Andersson, C. S.; Popović-Bijelić, A.; Gräslund, A.; Siegbahn, P. E. M.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Högbom, M.; Cox, N. Electronic Structural Flexibility of Heterobimetallic Mn/Fe Cofactors: R2lox and R2c Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 13399–13409.

Cox, N.; Retegan, M.; Neese, F.; Pantazis, D. A.; Boussac, A.; Lubitz, W. Electronic Structure of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II Prior to O-O Bond Formation. Science 2014, 345, 804–808.

Lohmiller, T.; Krewald, V.; Pérez Navarro, M.; Retegan, M.; Rapatskiy, L.; Nowaczyk, M. M.; Boussac, A.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. Structure, Ligands and Substrate Coordination of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II in the S₂ State: a Combined EPR and DFT Study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2014, 16, 11877–11892.

Retegan, M.; Cox, N.; Lubitz, W.; Neese, F.; Pantazis, D. A. The First Tyrosyl Radical Intermediate Formed in the S₂–S₃ Transition of Photosystem II. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2014, 16, 11901–11910.

Pérez Navarro, M.; Ames, W. M.; Nilsson , H.; Lohmiller, T.; Pantazis, D. A.; Rapatskiy, L.; Nowaczyk, M. M.; Neese, F.; Boussac, A.; Messinger, J.; Lubitz, W.; Cox, N. Ammonia Binding to the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Identifies the Solvent-Exchangeable Oxygen Bridge (μ-Oxo) of the Manganese Tetramer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013, 110, 15561–15566.

Cox, N.; Pantazis, D. A.; Neese, F.; Lubitz, W. Biological Water Oxidation. Accounts of Chemical Research 2013, 46, 1588–1596.

Rapatskiy, L.; Cox, N.; Savitsky, A.; Ames, W. M.; Sander, J.; Nowaczyk, M. M.; Rögner, M.; Boussac, A.; Neese, F.; Messinger, J.; Lubitz, W. Detection of the Water-Binding Sites of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Using W-Band ¹⁷O Electron–Electron Double Resonance-Detected NMR Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134, 16619–16634.

Pantazis, D. A.; Ames, W.; Cox, N.; Lubitz, W.; Neese, F. Two Interconvertible Structures that Explain the Spectroscopic Properties of the Oxygen‐Evolving Complex of Photosystem II in the S₂ State. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 9935–9940.

Cox, N.; Ames, W.; Epel, B.; Kulik, L. V.; Rapatskiy, L.; Neese, F.; Messinger, J.; Wieghardt, K.; Lubitz, W. Electronic Structure of a Weakly Antiferromagnetically Coupled Mn^IIMn^III Model Relevant to Manganese Proteins: A Combined EPR, ⁵⁵Mn-ENDOR, and DFT Study. Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50, 8238–8251.

Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N.; Lubitz, W.; Neese, F. Oxygen‐Evolving Photosystem II. In Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry; Scott, R. A., Messerschmid, A., Nicolet, Y., Eds.; Scott, R. A., Messerschmid, A., Nicolet, Y., Series Eds.; John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, 2014.