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J. J. WEISS1 has proposed that oxyhæmoglobin is a hæmoglobin peroxide, with the iron atom in the ferric state and the oxygen molecule present as an O−2 ion, which is then taken up in the co-ordination shell of the ferric ion. He states that such an assumption accounts for the properties of oxyhæmoglobin.
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PAULING, L. Nature of the Iron–Oxygen Bond in Oxyhæmoglobin. Nature 203, 182–183 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203182b0
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