XAFS study of Ni (II)-aminovinylketone complexes

The functional properties of the active sites in a metalloproteins depend on coordination geometry of metal, the number and the nature of coordination ligands. The Ni K-edge XAFS spectra of novel nickel complexes as models for the MeN2O2(S2) active site in metalloproteins were measured and analyzed. Theoretical analysis of the Ni K-edge XANES was performed using FDMNES code based on the finite difference method (FDM) to solve the Schrödinger equation beyond muffin-tin approximations and self-consistent full multiple-scattering approach (code FEFF8.2). It was found that the spectrum is almost totally formed by the octahedron of the nearest neighbor atoms around Ni ion in the II (Ni) complex. The III (Ni) complex active center exists in square-planar configuration with shorter distances.