Garry Mockler   Position:   Senior Lecturer Room:   18.108 Phone No:   +61 2 4221 3514 Email:   gmm@uow.edu.au Lab:   18.213 Lab Phone:   +61 2 4221 3527

Research Interests

Bioinorganic Chemistry

Model compounds of Copper proteins

The structures and properties of model compounds of copper proteins are studied in order to better understand the functions, structures and properties of these metalloproteins which occur in biological systems.

Galactose oxidase, which contains a type 1b copper atom, oxidizes a number of primary alcohols including galactose to the corresponding aldehydes. Model compounds of galactose oxidase are being synthesized and characterised and their reactions with sugars and alcohols are being investigated.

 

Representative Publications

Towards a Hemocyanin model: Relation between molecular and electronic spectra in binuclear complexes. R. J. Butcher, G. Diven, G. R Erickson, G. M. Mockler and E. Sinn. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 1986, 123, L17.

Model compounds for the type III site and the combined type II and III site in multicopper oxidases. R. J. Butcher, G. M. Mockler and E. Sinn. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 1990, 102, 209.

Binuclear copper(II) complexes containing phenols and catechols. R. J. Butcher, G. Diven, J. Jasinski, G. M. Mockler, R. Pozdniakov and E. Sinn. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 1995, 239, 107.

Aqua(pyridine-kN))(N-salicylidenetyrosinato-k3O,N,O)copper(II). R. J. Butcher, G. M. Mockler and O. McKern, Acta Cryst. 2003, E59, 20.

Piperidine-kN)(N-salicylidenephenylalinato-k3O,N,O)copper(II). R. J. Butcher, G. M. Mockler and O. McKern. Acta Cryst. 2003, E59, 61.

Searchable Publication List

 

Suggested Topics for Future Students

Model compounds of Galactose Oxidase.

Oxidation of sugars by copper(II) compounds.

 

Abbreviated CV

B.Sc. UNSW 1964
Ph.D UNSW 1968
Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
Member of the American Chemical Society
Member of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Editor of The Methyl Mercury