Nonheme iron complexes

Recently, Nam, Fukuzumi, and coworkers succeed in an iron-catalyzed oxidation of alkanes using Ce(IV) and water. Here, the generation of the reactive nonheme iron (IV) 0x0 complex is proposed, which subsequently oxidized the respective alkane (Scheme 16) [104]. With the corresponding iron(II) complex of the pentadentate ligand 31, it was possible to achieve oxidation of ethylbenzene to acetophenone (9 TON). 0 labeling studies indicated that water is the oxygen source. 

Scheme 21 Hydroxylation of benzene to phenol with nonheme iron complex 35 [142]...

In addition to nonheme iron complexes also heme systems are able to catalyze the oxidation of benzene. For example, porphyrin-like phthalocyanine structures were employed to benzene oxidation (see also alkane hydroxylation) [129], Mechanistic investigations of this t3 pe of reactions were carried out amongst others by Nam and coworkers resulting in similar conclusions like in the nonheme case [130], More recently, Sorokin reported a remarkable biological aromatic oxidation, which occurred via formation of benzene oxide and involves an NIH shift. Here, phenol is obtained with a TON of 11 at r.t. with 0.24 mol% of the catalyst. 

In the field of nonheme iron complexes, Miinck, Collins, and Kinoshita reported the oxidation of benzylic alcohols via stable p-oxo-bridged diiron(IV) TAME complexes, which are formed by the reaction of iron-28 complexes with molecular oxygen (Scheme 23) [142]. 

The general influence of covalency can be qualitatively explained in a very basic MO scheme. For example, we may consider the p-oxo Fe(III) dimers that are encountered in inorganic complexes and nonheme iron proteins, such as ribonucleotide reductase. In spite of a half-filled crystal-field model), the ferric high-spin ions show quadrupole splittings as large as 2.45 mm s < 0, 5 = 0.53 mm s 4.2-77 K) [61, 62]. This is explained... 

An interesting example of a spin-admixed nonheme iron(lll) complex with S - (3/2, 5/2) ground state is the organometallic anion [Fe CeCls) which has four pentachloro phenyl ligands in tetrahedrally distorted planar symmetry [122]. 

Iron complexes or microsomal nonheme iron are undoubtedly obligatory components in the microsomal oxidation of many organic compounds mediated by hydroxyl radicals. In 1980, Cohen and Cederbaum [27] suggested that rat liver microsomes oxidized ethanol, methional, 2-keto-4-thiomethylbutyric acid, and dimethylsulfoxide via hydrogen atom abstraction by hydroxyl radicals. Then, Ingelman-Sundberg and Ekstrom [28] assumed that the hydroxylation of aniline by reconstituted microsomal cytochrome P-450 system is mediated by hydroxyl radicals formed in the superoxide-driven Fenton reaction. Similar conclusion has been made for the explanation of inhibitory effects of pyrazole and 4-methylpyrazole on the microsomal oxidation of ethanol and DMSO [29],... 

VI. NITRIC OXIDE COMPLEXES OF OTHER NONHEME IRON PROTEINS... 

Other enzymes that are not obviously related to the dioxygenases have at least superficially similar metal sites. The fatty acid desaturase of the endoplasmic reticuluum is a nonheme iron protein and requires both oxygen and reducing equivalents for activity (Strittmatter and Enoch, 1978). It is not known whether this enzyme forms a nitroxyl complex, but rat liver microsomes containing the enzyme form an S = nitroxyl adduct when treated with nitrite and dithionite. 

Iron-containing superoxide dismutases are present in many species of bacteria (Hassan and Fridovitch, 1978). These nonheme iron proteins have a characteristic set of EPR lines split about g = 4.2 in the ferric state, arising from the middle Kramers doublet of a rhombic high-spin site. Ferrous iron superoxide dismutase forms an S = I complex with NO that resembles the lipoxygenase-NO adduct by EPR criteria (I. Fridovich, T. Kirby, and J. C. Salerno, (1978) unpublished observations). 

A large number of iron-containing proteins form nitrosyl complexes. Heme proteins, iron-sulfur proteins, and other iron proteins such as nonheme iron dioxygenases all form characteristic nitrosyl complexes. In enzymes in which the metal center has an open coordination position, NO often can be bound without severe disruption of the site. This introduces the possibility of reversibility of inhibition. 

Lancaster, J. R., Wemerfelmayer, G., and Wachter, H. (1994). Coinduction of nitric oxide synthesis and intracellular nonheme iron-nitrosyl complexes in murine cytokine-treated fibroblasts. Free Radical Biol. Med. 16, 869-870. 

Pellat, C., Henry, Y., and Drapier, j. C. (1990). IFN-gamma-activated macrophages Detection by electron paramagnetic resonance of complexes between L-arginine-derived nitric oxide and nonheme iron proteins. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 166, 119-125. 

Stadler, J., Bergonia, H. A., Di Silvio, M., Sweetland, M. A., Billiar, T. R., Simmons, R. L., and Lancaster, J. R., Jr. (1993). Nonheme iron-nitrosyl complex formation in rat hepatocytes Detection by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 302, 4-11. 

But, because there was also a first-order term, reduction via a dinitrosyl complex may not be compulsory. It is doubtful that cytochromes could participate in NO reduction via dinitrosyl complexes, because of strong axial coordination of Fe by at least one protein ligand. It is of course possible that the nonheme iron of nitric oxide reductase is the actual site of reduction of NO. 

The 0-0 stretch for the hydroperoxo complexes (60,86,88,90,94,95,99- ) falls in the range 780 900 cm-1. In the case of a nonheme iron complex it was found that the low-spin hydroperoxo form absorbs at a lower frequency than the high-spin peroxo complex (89,102). This trend also holds for some iron alkylperoxo complexes, and DFT calculations have shown the high-spin alkylperoxide form to have a larger activation energy for the 0-0 bond cleavage than the corresponding low-spin alkylperoxo form (104). 

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