Papers on bioinspired catalysis (synthesis, structural characterisation and catalytic applications of functional and/or structural enzyme mimics)


(1) Hernadi, K., Pálinkó, I., Böngyik, E., Kiricsi, I.:

Biomimetic oxygen transfer by Co and Cu complexes immobilized in porous matrices,

Stud. Surf. Sci. Catal. 135, 366; CD-ROM edition: 27P10 (2001).


(2) Hernadi, K., Pálinkó, I., Bóka, M., Kiricsi, I.:

Decomposition of H2O2 by Fe imidazole or Fe histidine complexes immobilised in porous matrices,

React. Kinet. Catal. Lett. 74, 195 (2001).


(3) Hernadi, K., Méhn, D. Labádi, I., Pálinkó, I., Bál Gy., Sitkei, E. and Kiricsi, I.:

Modeling superoxide dismutas: Immobilising a Cu-Zn complex in porous matrices and activity testing in H2O2 decomposition,

Stud. Surf. Sci. Catal. 142, 85 (2002).


(4) Labádi, I., Szilágyi, I., Sitkei, E., Pálinkó, I., Hernádi, K.:

Immobilisation of enzyme mimicking metal complexes in porous matrices,

Proceedings of the 8th International Chemistry Conference ISBN 973-85809-8-6, pp. 190-192, Kolozsvár (Roumania), 2002. in Hungarian)


(5) Jakab, I.N., Hernadi K., Méhn, D., Kollár, T., Pálinkó, I.:

Anchoring copper-amino acid complexes on silica or in montmorillonite - an FT-IR study,

J. Mol. Struct. 651-653, 109 (2003).


(6) Labádi, I., Szilágyi, I., Jakab, N.I., Hernádi, K., Pálinkó, I.:

Metal complexes immobilised on porous matrices - possible enzyme mimics,

Mater. Sci. 21, 235 (2003).


(7) Szilágyi, I., Nagy, G., Hernadi, K., Labádi, I., Pálinkó, I.:

Modeling copper-containing enzyme mimics,

J. Mol. Struct. THEOCHEM 666/667, 451 (2003).


(8) Szilágyi, I., Labádi, I., Hernádi, K., Pálinkó, I., Kiss, T.:

SOD activity of immobilized enzyme mimicking complexes,

Proc. Vth Int. Symp.: Young People and Multidisciplinary Research, ISBN 973-8359-18-X, CD-ROM edition, pp. 443-449,Temesvár (Roumania), 2003.


(9) Szilágyi, I., Labádi, I., Hernádi, K., Pálinkó, I., Kiss, T.:

Studying a SOD mimicking metal complex with the riboflavin/NBT test reaction,

Chemistry Lectures, Program and Proceedings, pp. 66-70 (2003). (in Hungarian)


(10) Szilágyi, I., Labádi, I., Hernadi, K., Pálinkó, I., Kiss, T.:

Synthesis and IR spectroscopic characterisation of immobilised superoxide dismutase (SOD) mimicking complexes,

J. Mol. Struct. 744-747, 495 (2005).


(11) Jakab, N.I., Hernadi, K., Kiss, J.T., Pálinkó, I.:

Covalent grafting of copper-amino acid complexes onto chloropropylated silica gel - an FT-IR study,

J. Mol. Struct. 744-747, 487 (2005).


(12) Szilágyi, I., Labádi, I., Hernadi, K., Kiss, T., Pálinkó, I.:

Montmorillonite intercalated Cu(II)-histidine complex - synthesis, characterisation and superoxide dismutase activity,

Stud. Surf. Sci. Catal. 158, 1011 (2005).


(13) Szilágyi, I., Labádi, I., Hernadi, K., Pálinkó, I., Fekete, I., Korecz, L., Rockenbauer, A., Kiss, T.:

Superoxide dismutase activity of a Cu-Zn complex - bare and immobilised,

New J. Chem. 29, 740 (2005).


(14) Szilágyi, I. Labádi, I., Hernadi, K. Pálinkó, I., Nagy, N.V., Korecz, L., Rockenbauer, A., Kele, Z., Kiss, T.:

Speciation study of an imidazolate-bridged copper(II)-zinc(II) complex in aqueous solution,

J. Inorg. Biochem. 99, 1619 (2005).


(15) Szilágyi, I., Kele, Z., Labádi, I., Hernadi, K., Pálinkó, I., Kiss, T.:

ESI-MS and MALDI-MS investigation of a superoxide dismutase mimicking imidazolato-bridged Cu-Zn complex,

Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 19, 2878 (2005).


(16) Berkesi, O., Szabó, T., Korbély, B., Hernadi, K., Pálinkó, I.:

Covalent grafting of Cu(II)-histidine complexes on polystyrene resin studied by photoacoustic infrared spectroscopy,

ForumAcusticum 2005, Budapest (Hungary), 2005, pp. 1459-1463.


(17) Szilágyi, I. Horváth, L., Labádi, I., Hernadi, K., Pálinkó, I., Kiss, T.:

Mimicking catalase and catecholase enzymes by copper(II)-containing complexes,

Cent. Eur. J. Chem. 4, 118 (2006).


(18) Jakab, I.N., Szabó, É., Hernadi, K., Pálinkó, I.:

The synthesis and the catalytic (catalase and tyrosinase) activities of amino acid copper complexes covalently grafted onto silica gel,

Sampling Catalyis Research in the Pannonian Region, Proc. 8th Pannonian Int. Symp. Catal., Szeged (Hungary), 2006, pp. 51-56.


(19) Szilágyi, I., Mikkola, S., Lönnberg, H., Labádi, I., Pálinkó, I.:

Hydrolysis of dinucleoside phosphates - mRNA 5' cap analogues - promoted by a binuclear copper(II)-zinc(II) complex,

J. Inorg. Biochem. 101, 1400 (2007).


(20) Korbély, B., Kiss, J.T., Hernadi, K., Pálinkó, I.:

Amino acids and their Cu complexes covalently grafted onto a polystyrene resin - a vibrational spectroscopic study,

J. Mol. Struct. 834-836, 345 (2007).


(21) Pálinkó, I., Ordasi, A., Kiss, J.T., Labádi, I:

Immobilized Cu(II)-amino acid complexes as prospective highly efficient catalytic materials: Synthesis, structural characterization and catalytic activities,

PERSPECTIVES IN VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY: Proccedings of the 2nd International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICOPVS 2008), AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1075, pp.165-168, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, New York, 2008.


(22) Pálinkó, I.:

Functional and structural mimics of superoxide dismutase enzymes,

Inorganic Biochemistry: Research Progress (Hughes, J.G., Robinson, A.J., eds.), Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2008, Ch. 10, pp. 281-303.


(23) Pálinkó, I.:

Bioinspired catalysts: Synthesis, characterisation and some applications,

Proc. 9th Pannonian Int. Symp. Catal., Strbské pleso (Slovakia), 2008, pp. 28-34.


(24) Szilágyi, I., Labádi, I., Pálinkó, I.:

Thermal stabilities of nanocomposites: mono- or binuclear Cu complexes intercalated or immobilised in/on siliceous materials,

Nanopages DOI: 10.1556/Nano.2008.00001 (2009).


(25) Aranyi, A., Csendes, Z., Kiss, J.T., Pálinkó, I.:

Covalently grafted, silica gel supported C-protected cysteine or cystine copper complexes - syntheses, structure and possible surface reaction studied by FT-IR spectroscopy,

J. Mol. Struct. 924-926, 166 (2009).


(26) Szilágyi, I., Berkesi, O., Sipiczki M., Korecz, L., Rockenbauer, A., Pálinkó, I.:

Preparation, characterization and catalytic activities of immobilized enzyme mimics,

Catal. Lett. 127, 239 (2009).


(27) Csendes, Z., Bugris, V., Sebök, P., Major, Zs., Kiss, J.T., Pálinkó, I.:

Covalently immobilized, silica gel or resin-supported C-protected cysteine or cystine Fe and Ni complexes - synthesis and structural characterization with FT-IR spectroscopy,

Insights into Coordination, Bioinorganic and Applied Inorganic Chemistry, (Melník, M., Segla, P., Tatarko, M.) , Press of Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, 2009, pp. 54-61.


(28) Csendes, Z., Bugris, V., Lackó, L., Labádi, I., Kiss, J.T. Pálinkó, I.:

Superoxide dismutase mimicking Cu(II) mixed amino acid complexes covalently grafted onto silica gel - an FT-IR study,

Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 396, 549 (2010).


(29) Csendes, Z., Lajter, I., Bugris, V., Kiss, J.T. Pálinkó, I.:

Structural characterisation of silica gel anchored, biomimetic, mixed ligand Co(II)-amino acid complexes,

Vibr. Spectr. 53, 132 (2010).


(30) Csendes, Z., Elek, G., Zahorán, K., Gyuris, K., Varga, G., Kiss, J.T., Pálinkó, I.:

Co-protected amino acid complexes covalently grafted onto solid supports syntheses, structural characterization and testing of catalytic activity,

Proc. 10th Pannonian Int. Symp. Catal., Cracow (Poland), 2010, pp. 37-44, ISBN: 978-83-929430-4-4.


(31) Pálinkó I.:

A good catalyst should be highly active and selective and more… How to prepare from an excellent homogenenous catalyst an at least good heterogeneous one?

Magyar Kémikusok Lapja 65, 70 (2010). (in Hungarian)


(32) Csendes, Z., Pálinkó, I.:

The preparation of biomimetic electron transfer catalysts,

Chemistry Lectures, Program and Proceedings, 2010, pp. 56-59. (in Hungarian)


(33) Csendes, Z., Földi, N., Kiss, J.T., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Covalently grafted, silica gel supported mixed amino acid iron complexes - syntheses, structural characterization and catalytic testing,

J. Mol. Struct. 993, 203 (2011).


(34) Csendes, Z., Csor, Á., Szécsényi, Á., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Cu(II) C-protected mixed amino acid complexes covalently immobilized onto silica gel - synthesis, structural characterization and catalytic activity,

New Trends in Coordination, Bioinorganic and Applied Inorganic Chemistry, (Melník, M., Segla, P., Tatarko, M.), ISBN 978-80-227-3509-4, Press of Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, 2011, pp. 41-52.


(35) Csendes, Z., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Biomimetic metal ion amino acid complexes - functional modeling of superoxide dismutase enzymes,

New Trends in Coordination, Bioinorganic and Applied Inorganic Chemistry, (Melník, M., Segla, P., Tatarko, M.), ISBN 978-80-227-3509-4, Press of Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, 2011, pp. 431-441.


(36) Varga, G., Csendes, Z., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

The far IR spectra of metal ion complexes containing ligands capable of coordination via one type of functional group,

Chemistry Lectures, Program and Proceedings, ISBN 978-963-315-099-3, pp. 135-137 (2012). (in Hungarian)


(37) H. Dudás, Cs., Csendes, Z., Bajnóczi, É.G., Canton, S.E., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Synthesis, structural characterisation and catalytic activites of iron mixed amino acid complexes covalently anchored on modified silica gel,

Chemistry Lectures, Program and Proceedings, ISBN 978-963-315-099-3, pp. 138-142 (2012). (in Hungarian)


(38) Csendes, Z., Kiss, J.T., Kutus, B., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Ni-S(uper)O(xide)D(ismutase) inspired Ni(II)-amino acid complexes covalently grafted onto Merrifield's resin - synthesis, structure and catalytic activity,

Mater. Sci. Forum 730-732, 1012 (2013).


(39) Csendes, Z., Dudás, Cs., Varga, G., Bajnóczi, É.G., Canton, S.E., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Superoxide dismutase inspired Fe-amino acid complexes covalently grafted onto chloropropylated silica gel - Syntheses, structural characterization and catalytic activity,

J. Mol. Struct. 1044, 39 (2013).


(40) Varga, G., Csendes, Z., Peintler, G., Berkesi, O., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Using far IR spectra for the unambigous identification of metal ion ligand coordi-nation sites in purpose-built complexes,

Recent Developments in Coordination, Bioinorganic and Applied Inorganic Chemistry, (Melník, M., Segla, P., Tatarko, M.), ISBN 978-80-227-3918-4, Press of Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, 2013, pp. 429-433.


(41) Csendes, Z., Bajnóczi, É.G., Canton, S.E., Carlson, S., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Structural details of bioinspired catalysts: Detailed description of the coordination speheres of Cu(II)–, Co(II)–, Ni(II)–, Mn(II)– and Fe(III)–amino acid complexes covalently grafted onto modified silica gel,

MAX-LAB Activity Report 2012 (Johansson, U., Nyberg, A., Nyholm, R., eds.), 2013, I811_1.


(42) Timár, Z., Csendes, Z., Sipos, P., Pálinkó I.:

Synthesis and structural characterisation of immobilised Cu(II)-C-protected amino acid complexes and their use in the oxidation of cyclohexene,

Chemistry Lectures, Program and Proceedings, ISBN 978-963-315-145-7, pp. 218.222 (2013). (in Hungarian)


(43) Varga, G., Csendes, Z., Peintler, G., Berkesi, O., Sipos, P., P´linkó, I.:

Using far IR spectra for the unambiguous identification of metal ion-ligand coordination sites in purpose-built complexes,

Spectrochim. Acta, A 122, 257 (2014).


(44) Csendes, Z., Varga, G., Schmehl, H., Timár, Z., Carlson, S., Canton, S.E., Bajnóczi, É,G., Sebok, D., Dékány, I., Elek, G., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Superoxide dismutase inspired immobilised Ni(II)–protected amino acid catalysts – synthesis, characterisation, and catalytic activity,

J. Mol. Catal. A 395, 93 (2014).


(45) Csendes, Z., Varga, G., Nagy, N.V., Bajnóczi, É.G., Sipiczki, M., Carlson, S., Canton, S.E., Metzinger, A., Galbács, G., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Synthesis, structural characterisation, and catalytic activity of Mn(II)–protected amino acid complexes covalently immobilised on chloropropylated silica gel,

Catal. Today 241, 264 (2015).


(46) Varga, G., Timár, Z., Csendes, Z., Bajnóczi, É.G., Carlson, S., Canton, S.E., Bagi, L., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Building, characterising and catalytic activity testing of Co–C-protected amino acid complexes covalently grafted onto chloropropylated silica gel,

J. Mol. Struct. 1090, 138 (2015).


(47) Varga, G., Timár, Z., Schemhl, H., Csendes, Z., Bajnóczi, É.G., Carlson, S., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Bioinspired covalently grafted Cu(II)–C protected amino acid complexes - selective catalysts in the epoxidation of cyclohexene,

React. Kinet. Mech. Catal. 115, 33 (2015).


(48) Varga, G., Csendes, Z., Bajnóczi, É.G., Carlson, S., Sipos, P., Pálinkó, I.:

Fe-amino acid complexes, immobilised on silica gel as active and highly selective catalysts in cyclohexene epoxidation,

Res. Chem. Intermed. 41, 9155 (2015).


(49) Janovák, L., Deák, Á., Tallósy, P.S., Sebok, D., Csapó, E., Bohinc, K., Abram, A., Pálinkó, I., Dékány, I.:

Hydroxyapatite-enhanced structural, photocatalytic and antibacterial properties of photoreactive TiO2/HAp/polyacrylate hybrid thin films,

Surf. & Coat. Techn. 326, 316 (2017).