Intermediates catalytic

Ti/TiOa electrodes manufactured by impregnating a Ti surface with a soluble Tp compound and subsequent baking in air can be used for reduction processes with Ti " or Ti" species as proposed catalytic intermediates. The usefulness of such electrodes was demonstrated by the reduction of nitrobenzene in 1 M HjSO /CHjOH (1 1)... 

Is the paramagnetic adduct between CO and Cluster A a kinetically intermediate in acetyl-CoA synthesis Questions have been raised about whether this adduct is a catalytic intermediate in the pathway of acetyl-CoA synthesis 187, 188) (as shown in Fig. 13), or is formed in a side reaction that is not on the main catalytic pathway for acetyl-CoA synthesis 189). A variety of biochemical studies have provided strong support for the intermediacy of the [Ni-X-Fe4S4l-CO species as the precursor of the carbonyl group of acetyl-CoA during acetyl-CoA synthesis 133, 183, 185, 190). These studies have included rapid ffeeze-quench EPR, stopped flow, rapid chemical quench, and isotope exchange. 

The proposed mechanism, due to Chalk and Harrod, is outlined in Eqs. (113)-(116) (n = 3 or 4), though it is recognized that this scheme is an oversimplification 54,57) it is probable that, in the absence of CO pressure, the coordinatively unsaturated tricarbonyls, not tetracarbonyls, are the catalytic intermediate 54). 

Reduction of unsaturated organic substrates such as alkenes, alkynes, ketones, and aldehydes by molecular dihydrogen or other H-sources is an important process in chemistry. In hydrogenation processes some iron complexes have been demonstrated to possess catalytic activity. Although catalytic intermediates have rarely been defined, the Fe-H bond has been thought to be involved in key intermediates. 

The emphasis in kinetic studies of E-IIs has been on the analysis of the rates of phosphorylation of the sugar by the phosphoryl group donor. In the early studies the question was addressed whether phosphorylated E-II would be a catalytic intermediate in the reaction or whether the phosphoryl group would be transferred directly from the donor to the sugar on a ternary complex between the enzyme and its substrates [66,75,95-100]. This matter has been satisfactorily resolved by a number of other techniques in favor of the first option and possible reasons why some systems did not behave according to a ping-pong type of mechanism have been discussed [1]. 

Much effort has been expanded in drawing mechanistic inferences from the observation that cofacial bismetalloporphyrins containing a non-redox-active metal ion are fairly selective catalysts (e.g., (DPA)CoM, where M = Lu, Sc, Al, Ag, Pd, 2H, i.e., monometallic porphyrins Fig. 18.15). At least two hypotheses have been proposed (i) polarization of the 0-0 bond in catalytic intermediates by the second ion (on an N-H moiety) acting as a Lewis acid [CoUman et al., 1987, 1994] and (ii) spatial positioning of H+ donors especially favorable for proton transfer to the terminal O atoms of coordinated O2 [Ni et al., 1987 Rosenthal and Nocera, 2007]. To the best of my knowledge, neither hypothesis has yet been convincingly proven nor resulted in improved ORR catalysts. When seeking stereoelectronic rational of the observed av values, it is useful to be mindful that a fair number of simple Co porphyrins are also relatively selective ORR catalysts (Section 18.4.2). 

The results shown in Scheme 26 are consistent with the mechanism shown in Scheme 27. Alkyne hydrometallation by catalytic intermediate A and... 

The application of ESR to the ribonucleotide reductase system indicates that the catalytic intermediate is a Co(I)-species. The appearance of Cob(Il)alamin is probably caused by partial oxidation of the Co(I)-species. In the enzyme bound Co(II)-species the benzimidazole ligand is coordinated, and the corrin ring is bound so tightly that the enzyme produces a unique highly resolved ESR spectrum. 

The results of this work leads one to the conclusion that the catalytic intermediate is, a cobalt(II) species. The cobalt-carbon bond cleaves homolytically to give an organic free radical. If the initial cleavage gave a carbanion and cobalt(III), the ESR signal would not disappear, and if... 

This is a valuable lesson for chemists trying to determine a catalytic mechanism compounds readily isolable are probably not true intermediates. Instead, they can be seen as labile reservoirs to catalytic intermediates that usually do not accumulate in sufficient concentrations to be detected. It is important to bear in mind that this mechanism or any other catalytic process could be different dependent on the nature of the alkene, solvent, and phosphine ligands. 

Interaction with Hydrocarbons. Wrigjhton (1), in particular, has shown how photolysis of suitable precursors in solution can generate higher concentrations of catalytic intermediates than... 

At the same time the interaction of superoxide with MPO may affect a total superoxide production by phagocytes. Thus, the superoxide adduct of MPO (Compound III) is probably quantitatively formed in PMA-stimulated human neutrophils [223]. Edwards and Swan [224] proposed that superoxide production regulate the respiratory burst of stimulated human neutrophils. It has also been suggested that the interaction of superoxide with HRP, MPO, and LPO resulted in the formation of Compound III by a two-step reaction [225]. Superoxide is able to react relatively rapidly with peroxidases and their catalytic intermediates. For example, the rate constant for reaction of superoxide with Fe(III)MPO is equal to 1.1-2.1 x 1061 mol 1 s 1 [226], and the rate constants for the reactions of Oi and HOO with HRP Compound I are equal to 1.6 x 106 and 2.2 x 1081 mol-1 s-1, respectively [227]. Thus, peroxidases may change their functions, from acting as prooxidant enzymes and the catalysts of free radical processes, and acquire antioxidant catalase properties as shown for HRP [228] and MPO [229]. In this case catalase activity depends on the two-electron oxidation of hydrogen peroxide by Compound I. 

The formation of metal-oxygen bonds has previously been found to occur for the stoichiometric hydrogenation of CO to methanol with metal hydrides of the early transition metals (20). Moreover, in ruthenium-phosphine catalyzed hydrogenation (with H2) of aldehydes and ketones, metal-oxygen bonded catalytic intermediates have been proposed for the catalytic cycle and in one case isolated (21,22). 

The number of turnovers (10) in hydrocarbon production without apparent decrease in activity proved that the reaction was indeed catalytic. The IR spectrum of the recovered resin showed small absorptions due to CpCo(C0)2 5 due to some recar bony la-tion of " CpCo". In addition, a broad distinct band at 1887 cm"l was seen. The identity of the species exhibiting this carbonyl band is still a mystery in particular, the band position does not match that reported for any of the CpCo (CO) 2 -derived di- and trinuclear carbonyls (vide supra). It is tempting to associate this band with seme catalytic intermediate, such as the polymer-bound analogues of CpCo(H)2(C0) and CpCo(HKPh)(CO), but this is pure speculation. 

The iso- and syndiotactic isomerism in the insertion polymerization of dienes (for 1,2 polymerization of generic dienes and for cis-1,4 polymerization of 4-monosubstituted or of 1,4-disubstituted monomers) would be determined, according to the polymerization scheme proposed by Porri and co-workers,181 182 by the relative orientations of the two ligands (diene monomer and allyl terminal of the growing chain) in the preinsertion catalytic intermediates. 

Figure 1.24 Minimum-energy preinsertion catalytic intermediates leading to 1,2 and cis-1,4 polymerizations. In particular, (a) absolute minimum-energy intermediate, for which diene and of allyl group present an endo-endo orientation (that is, their concavities are oriented in opposite direction with respect to Cp ligand), can lead to 1,2-unlike or cis-1,4-like insertions, while (b) higher energy intermediate, for which diene and allyl group present an endo-exo orientation (that is, the concavity of allyl is toward Cp whereas diene is in opposite direction) can lead to 1,2-like or cis-1,4-unlike insertions.

Of particular interest is the dinuclear Ru complex 34, the so-called Shvo catalyst [55, 56]. It has been established that, under the reaction conditions, this complex is in equilibrium with two monometal complexes (35 and 36) [57-59]. Both of these resemble catalytic intermediates in the concerted proton-hydride transfer pathway (Scheme 20.13), and will react in a similar way (Scheme 20.15) involving the six-membered transition state 37 and the reduction of the substrate via 38. 

Special spin-trapping techniques are also available for the detection of short-lived radicals in both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. For instance, a-phenyl A-ferf-butyl nitrone (PBN), ferf-nitrosobutanc (f-NB), -(4-pyridyl A-oxidc) A-ferf-butyl nitrone (4-POBN), or 5,5-dimethyl-l-pyrroline A-oxidc (DMPO) can be made to react with catalytic intermediates to form stable paramagnetic adducts detectable by ESR [135], Radicals evolving into the gas phase can also be trapped directly by condensation or by using matrix isolation techniques [139],... 

Davydov, R., Makris, T.M., Kofman, V., Werst, D.E., Sligar, S.G. and Hoffman, B. M. (2001) Hydroxylation of camphor by reduced oxy-cytochrome P450cam mechanistic implications of EPR and ENDOR studies of catalytic intermediates in native and mutant enzymes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123, 1403-1415. 

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