The Fahrni group pioneered cellular detection of this element using tetrathiazacrown (“tetra-THY-uh-za-crown”) ether probes. This metal is needed for beta-monooxygenases to convert dopamine into norepinephrine. This metal can be delivered to its ATP7A transporter while bound to ceruloplasmin. This metal’s iodide is notably not required when using cyclooctynes (“cyclo-OCK-tynes”) developed by the Bertozzi group in a variant of click chemistry “free” of it. Zinc and this metal are coordinated in the most common family of eukaryotic superoxide dismutases. ParaGard is among a class of IUDs coated in this metal. Epoxide ring openings in alkaloid syntheses often use lithium and this metal in the form of Gilman reagents. Oxygen is bound to this metal in hemocyanin giving spider blood a blue hue. For 10 points, name this element whose symbol is Cu. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 54.33 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 89.50 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 104.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.75 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 101.33 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 80.89 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.17 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.25 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 108.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.43 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 87.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 90.25 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Montpellier | 36 | -5 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia B | John Jay | 36 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago C | 37 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Claremont | 38 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford B | 48 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT | Bowdoin A | 50 | 10 |
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | UCSD B | 51 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 51 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 51 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Southern Connecticut State | 53 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | Central Florida A | Florida C | 54 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | WashU B | 56 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | NYU B | 56 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 57 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 57 | 10 |
| Ali Hamzeh | Edinburgh A | Cardiff | 57 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Bowdoin B | 57 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale | Dartmouth B | 57 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 58 | 10 |
| Alan Li | Cornell C | Cornell B | 60 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Northwestern B | 60 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Johns Hopkins A | 60 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 63 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Maryland B | 63 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina B | 66 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech C | Louisville B | 69 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago A | 72 | -5 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Catholic | 75 | 10 |
| Nicholas Cuevas | Florida B | Florida A | 75 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Purdue A | 75 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | Liberty A | 82 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 82 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton College | Iowa State | 83 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 86 | 10 |
| Maddie Baldwin | Michigan State | Ohio State C | 86 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana B | Indiana C | 86 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth A | Harvard B | 86 | 10 |
| Adrian Zhou | NYU C | Maryland A | 86 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD C | Arizona State | 86 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississipi State | Alabama A | 86 | 10 |
| Isabel Dent | Sewanee | WashU A | 86 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Warwick B | 86 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | North Carolina B | 86 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | RIT | 86 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Cornell A | 86 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland C | Rutgers B | 87 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington A | Minnesota A | 87 | 10 |
| Dwight Solano | Texas A&M A | Texas A | 87 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU | North Carolina C | 87 | 10 |
| David Nickel | Purdue B | Illinois C | 87 | 10 |
| Mia Clark-Webb | Oxford C | Birmingham | 88 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown | Vassar | 89 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Penn State | 92 | -5 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD A | UC Irvine | 92 | 10 |
| Samuel Li | William and Mary | NC State A | 96 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Notre Dame B | 98 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee B | 98 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 104 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 104 | -5 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama B | 104 | 10 |
| Timothy Chiu | Northwestern D | Chicago E | 105 | 10 |
| Adam Holbrook | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 105 | -5 |
| Laila Peterson | James Madison B | Duke | 112 | 10 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UC Santa Barbara | UCLA B | 113 | -5 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 114 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Southampton A | 115 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison A | NC State B | 125 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Imperial B | 128 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | North Carolina A | 129 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois B | 129 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Binghamton B | 129 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 129 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Central Florida B | 129 | 10 |
| Avishka Fulgavkar | Florida A | Florida B | 129 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington B | Missouri B | 129 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Murray State A | 129 | 10 |
| Katie Young | Liberty C | Wake Forest | 129 | 10 |