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Sam P. de Visser is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology as subfields. An additional focus lies in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Pharmacology, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics, including:

  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

De Visser has published extensively, with notable papers such as:

  • "Catalytic Mechanism of Aromatic Nitration by Cytochrome P450 TxtE: Involvement of a Ferric-Peroxynitrite Intermediate" (2020) in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Inspiration from Nature: Influence of Engineered Ligand Scaffolds and Auxiliary Factors on the Reactivity of Biomimetic Oxidants" (2021) in ACS Catalysis
  • "Local Charge Distributions, Electric Dipole Moments, and Local Electric Fields Influence Reactivity Patterns and Guide Regioselectivities in α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Non-heme Iron Dioxygenases" (2021) in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Status report on the quantum chemical cluster approach for modeling enzyme reactions" (2022) in Communications Chemistry
  • "Negative catalysis / non-Bell-Evans-Polanyi reactivity by metalloenzymes: Examples from mononuclear heme and non-heme iron oxygenases" (2021) in Coordination Chemistry Reviews

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Chivukula V. Sastri
  • Hafiz Saqib Ali
  • Thirakorn Mokkawes
  • Henrik P. H. Wong
  • Jagnyesh Kumar Satpathy

De Visser's work appears regularly in leading publication venues, notably:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Best Publications

  • Mechanism of oxidation reactions catalyzed by cytochrome p450 enzymes.

    Bernard Meunier;Samuël P de Visser;Sason Shaik

  • Theoretical perspective on the structure and mechanism of cytochrome P450 enzymes.

    Sason Shaik;Devesh Kumar;Samuël P. de Visser;and Ahmet Altun

  • A Model “Rebound” Mechanism of Hydroxylation by Cytochrome P450: Stepwise and Effectively Concerted Pathways, and Their Reactivity Patterns

    F. Ogliaro;N. Harris;S. Cohen;M. Filatov

  • Two-state reactivity mechanisms of hydroxylation and epoxidation by cytochrome P-450 revealed by theory.

    Sason Shaik;Samuël P de Visser;François Ogliaro;Helmut Schwarz

  • A proton-shuttle mechanism mediated by the porphyrin in benzene hydroxylation by cytochrome p450 enzymes.

    Sam P de Visser;Sason Shaik

  • What factors affect the regioselectivity of oxidation by cytochrome P450? A DFT study of allylic hydroxylation and double bond epoxidation in a model reaction

    Sam P de Visser;François Ogliaro;Pankaz K Sharma;Sason Shaik

  • External Electric Field Will Control the Selectivity of Enzymatic-Like Bond Activations

    Sason Shaik;Sam P. De Visser;Devesh Kumar

  • Photoactivation of the photoactive yellow protein: why photon absorption triggers a trans-to-cis Isomerization of the chromophore in the protein.

    Gerrit Groenhof;§ Mathieu Bouxin-Cademartory;Berk Hess;Sam P. de Visser

  • Searching for the second oxidant in the catalytic cycle of cytochrome P450: a theoretical investigation of the iron(III)-hydroperoxo species and its epoxidation pathways.

    François Ogliaro;Sam P de Visser;Shimrit Cohen;Pankaz K Sharma

  • A Valence Bond Modeling of Trends in Hydrogen Abstraction Barriers and Transition States of Hydroxylation Reactions Catalyzed by Cytochrome P450 Enzymes

    Sason Shaik;Devesh Kumar;Sam P. de Visser

  • A predictive pattern of computed barriers for C-H hydroxylation by compound I of cytochrome P450

    Sam P. De Visser;Devesh Kumar;Shimrit Cohen;Ronen Shacham

  • Propene activation by the oxo-iron active species of taurine/α- ketoglutarate dioxygenase (TauD) enzyme. How does the catalysis compare to heme-enzymes?

    Sam P. de Visser

  • Theoretical study on the mechanism of the oxygen activation process in cysteine dioxygenase enzymes.

    Devesh Kumar;Devesh Kumar;Walter Thiel;Sam P. de Visser

  • Active species of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and cytochrome P450: two electronic chameleons.

    S. P. de Visser;S. Shaik;P. K. Sharma;D. Kumar

  • Intrinsic properties and reactivities of mononuclear nonheme iron-oxygen complexes bearing the tetramethylcyclam ligand

    Sam P. de Visser;Jan Uwe Rohde;Yong Min Lee;Jaeheung Cho

  • Trends in substrate hydroxylation reactions by heme and nonheme iron(IV)-oxo oxidants give correlations between intrinsic properties of the oxidant with barrier height

    Sam P. de Visser

  • Status report on the quantum chemical cluster approach for modeling enzyme reactions

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  • Combined experimental and theoretical study on aromatic hydroxylation by mononuclear nonheme iron(IV)-oxo complexes.

    Sam P. de Visser;Kyungeun Oh;† and Ah-Rim Han;Wonwoo Nam

  • The mechanism of cysteine oxygenation by cysteine dioxygenase enzymes.

    Swathi Aluri;Sam P. De Visser

  • Radical Clock Substrates, Their C−H Hydroxylation Mechanism by Cytochrome P450, and Other Reactivity Patterns: What Does Theory Reveal about the Clocks' Behavior?

    Devesh Kumar;Samuël P de Visser;Pankaz K Sharma;Shimrit Cohen

  • What Factors Influence the Ratio of C¿H Hydroxylation versus C¿C Epoxidation by a Nonheme Cytochrome P450 Biomimetic?

    Sam P. de Visser

Frequent Co-Authors

Devesh Kumar
Devesh Kumar Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
Sason Shaik
Sason Shaik Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wonwoo Nam
Wonwoo Nam Ewha Womans University
David P. Goldberg
David P. Goldberg Johns Hopkins University
Joan Selverstone Valentine
Joan Selverstone Valentine University of California, Los Angeles
Nico M. M. Nibbering
Nico M. M. Nibbering Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nigel S. Scrutton
Nigel S. Scrutton University of Manchester
G. Narahari Sastry
G. Narahari Sastry North East Institute of Science and Technology
Maxime A. Siegler
Maxime A. Siegler Johns Hopkins University
Guy N. L. Jameson
Guy N. L. Jameson University of Melbourne

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