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Nicolai Lehnert is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Materials Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad disciplines, they have contributed substantially to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, Cell Biology, and Physiology.

Their work often explores topics including Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms, Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects, Hemoglobin Structure and Function, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry, and Metal Complexes Synthesis and Properties.

Lehnert has authored several research papers published in notable scientific journals, illustrating their engagement with the chemical and biochemical research communities. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond" (2020) published in Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • "Grand challenges in the nitrogen cycle" (2021) published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Role of Structural Dynamics in Selectivity and Mechanism of Non-heme Fe(II) and 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Oxygenases Involved in DNA Repair" (2020) published in ACS Central Science
  • "The Oxo-Wall Remains Intact: A Tetrahedrally Distorted Co(IV)-Oxo Complex" (2021) published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Catalysis by the JmjC histone demethylase KDM4A integrates substrate dynamics, correlated motions and molecular orbital control" (2020) published in Chemical Science

Their frequent coauthors include Corey J. White, Michael O. Lengel, Virginia A. Larson, Hai T. Dong, and Michael Y. Hu, all of whom have collaborated with Lehnert on multiple occasions.

Nicolai Lehnert's research has been disseminated frequently in several publication venues, with notable contributions to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry

Best Publications

  • Geometric and Electronic Structure/Function Correlations in Non-Heme Iron Enzymes

    Edward I. Solomon;Thomas C. Brunold;Mindy I. Davis;Jyllian N. Kemsley

  • Non-heme iron enzymes: Contrasts to heme catalysis

    Edward I. Solomon;Andrea Decker;Nicolai Lehnert

  • Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond

    Virginia A. Larson;Beatrice Battistella;Kallol Ray;Nicolai Lehnert

  • Reversing nitrogen fixation

    Nicolai Lehnert;Hai T. Dong;Jill B. Harland;Andrew P. Hunt

  • Electronic Structure of Heme-Nitrosyls and Its Significance for Nitric Oxide Reactivity, Sensing, Transport, and Toxicity in Biological Systems

    Lauren E. Goodrich;Florian Paulat;V. K. K. Praneeth;Nicolai Lehnert

  • Spectroscopic Properties and Electronic Structure of Five- and Six-Coordinate Iron(II) Porphyrin NO Complexes: Effect of the Axial N-Donor Ligand

    V. K. K. Praneeth;Christian Näther;Gerhard Peters;Nicolai Lehnert

  • Mono- and dinuclear non-heme iron–nitrosyl complexes: Models for key intermediates in bacterial nitric oxide reductases

    Timothy C. Berto;Amy L. Speelman;Sheng Zheng;Nicolai Lehnert

  • Spectroscopic properties and electronic structure of low-spin Fe(III)-alkylperoxo complexes: homolytic cleavage of the O-O bond.

    Nicolai Lehnert;Raymond Y. N. Ho;Lawrence Que;Edward I. Solomon

  • Electronic Structure and Biologically Relevant Reactivity of Low-Spin {FeNO}8 Porphyrin Model Complexes: New Insight from a Bis-Picket Fence Porphyrin

    Lauren E. Goodrich;Saikat Roy;E. Ercan Alp;Jiyong Zhao

  • The radical mechanism of biological methane synthesis by methyl-coenzyme M reductase.

    Thanyaporn Wongnate;Dariusz Sliwa;Bojana Ginovska;Dayle Smith

  • Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation by Myoglobin

    Trever Bostelaar;Victor Vitvitsky;Jacques Kumutima;Brianne E. Lewis

  • Binding and activation of nitrite and nitric oxide by copper nitrite reductase and corresponding model complexes

    Anna C. Merkle;Nicolai Lehnert

  • Electronic Structure of High-Spin Iron(III)−Alkylperoxo Complexes and Its Relation to Low-Spin Analogues: Reaction Coordinate of O−O Bond Homolysis

    Nicolai Lehnert;Raymond Y. N. Ho;Lawrence Que;Edward I. Solomon

  • Electronic structure of six-coordinate iron(III)-porphyrin NO adducts: the elusive iron(III)-NO(radical) state and its influence on the properties of these complexes.

    V. K. K. Praneeth;Florian Paulat;Timothy C. Berto;Serena DeBeer George

  • Structural and Electronic Differences of Copper(I) Complexes with Tris(pyrazolyl)methane and Hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borate Ligands

    Kiyoshi Fujisawa;Tetsuya Ono;Yoko Ishikawa;Nagina Amir

  • Density-functional investigation on the mechanism of H-atom abstraction by lipoxygenase

    Nicolai Lehnert;Edward I Solomon

  • Electronic structure and reactivity of low-spin Fe(III)-hydroperoxo complexes: comparison to activated bleomycin.

    Nicolai Lehnert;Frank Neese;Raymond Y. N. Ho;Lawrence Que Jr.

  • Grand challenges in the nitrogen cycle.

    Nicolai Lehnert;Bradley W. Musselman;Lance C. Seefeldt

  • Catalytic Cyclopropanation by Myoglobin Reconstituted with Iron Porphycene: Acceleration of Catalysis due to Rapid Formation of the Carbene Species.

    Koji Oohora;Hiroyuki Meichin;Liming Zhao;Matthew W. Wolf

  • Quantum chemistry-based analysis of the vibrational spectra of five-coordinate metalloporphyrins [M(TPP)Cl].

    Florian Paulat;V. K. K. Praneeth;Christian Näther;Nicolai Lehnert

  • Direct Hydrogen-Atom Abstraction by Activated Bleomycin: An Experimental and Computational Study

    Andrea Decker;Marina S. Chow;Jyllian N. Kemsley;Nicolai Lehnert

  • Electronic structure of iron(II)-porphyrin nitroxyl complexes: molecular mechanism of fungal nitric oxide reductase (P450nor).

    Nicolai Lehnert;V. K. K. Praneeth;Florian Paulat

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Christian Näther
Christian Näther Kiel University
Wolfgang Bensch
Wolfgang Bensch Kiel University
Carsten Krebs
Carsten Krebs Pennsylvania State University
Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Mark E. Meyerhoff
Mark E. Meyerhoff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Franc Meyer
Franc Meyer University of Göttingen
James E. Penner-Hahn
James E. Penner-Hahn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen W. Ragsdale
Stephen W. Ragsdale University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Felix Studt
Felix Studt Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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