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IT has been known for a long time that most amino-acids have the property of forming complexes with heavy metals, and it has now been shown1 that the cobaltous ion, Co++, combines reversibly with histidine, giving a tetra-co-ordinated compound, cobalto-dihistidine, which takes up oxygen reversibly to form a compound of octahedral configuration, oxy-bis-cobalto-dihistidine.
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LIQUIER-MILWARD, J. Evidence of a Complex Compound of Cobalt with a Purine Base (Adenine). Nature 167, 1068–1069 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/1671068b0
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