Energy and Materials Chemistry

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Lead-water complex energy landscape

Moderating the acidity of Pb(II)-Water complexes through the coordination of non-aqueous ligands

The intermediate is taken as a mimic of the tri-coordinate metal centre found in a biological complex, for example [Pb2+(H2O)(O4Uracil59)(N3Cytosine60)] following the Pb(II)-induced catalytic cleavage of tRNA.