Homonuclear dinickel complexes: structural mimics for the dinickel subsite of the A-cluster of acetyl-CoA synthase

The homonuclear dinickel complexes [Ni(ema)(μ-S,S′)Ni(dppp)] and [Ni(ema)(μ-S,S′)Ni(dppe)] have been prepared as synthetic structural analogues of the Ni-Ni subsite of the A-cluster of the enzyme acetyl-CoA synthase.