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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Inorg Chem. 2011 Feb 1;50(5):1592–1602. doi: 10.1021/ic101776m

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Proposed Mechanism for SOR-Catalyzed Reduction of Superoxide via Hydroperoxo (T1) and Solvent-Bound Intermediates (T2)a

a In the absence of substrate or reducing equivalents the active site converts to the glutamate-bound resting (R).