The research project that I am developing involves the synthesis of different ligands and metal complexes.
Ligands are organic molecules that bind to metal ions.
The combination of the ligand and the metal ion is called a metal complex. Biomimetic chemistry is the area of bioinorganic chemistry that involves designing metal complexes that mimic enzymes that exist in nature. It is an exciting area of chemistry that continues to be of great interest. In nature nucleases catalyze this cleavage reaction. Bioinorganic chemistry and ligand design are interesting areas of research due to their interdisciplinary natures.