Copper complex transfer reaction

The acetylide anion 3 is likely to form an alkynyl-copper complex by reaction with the cupric salt. By electron transfer the copper-II ion is reduced, while the acetylenic ligands dimerize to yield the -acetylene 2 ... 

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Iron or copper complexes will catalyse Fenton chemistry only if two conditions are met simultaneously, namely that the ferric complex can be reduced and that the ferrous complex has an oxidation potential such that it can transfer an electron to H2O2. However, we must also add that this reasoning supposes that we are under standard conditions and at equilibrium, which is rarely the case for biological systems. A simple example will illustrate the problem whereas under standard conditions reaction (2) has a redox potential of —330 mV (at an O2 concentration of 1 atmosphere), in vivo with [O2] = 3.5 x 10 5 M and [O2 ] = 10 11 M the redox potential is +230 mV (Pierre and Fontecave, 1999). 

Several copper enzymes will be discussed in detail in subsequent sections of this chapter. Information about major classes of copper enzymes, most of which will not be discussed, is collected in Table 5.1 as adapted from Chapter 14 of reference 49. Table 1 of reference 4 describes additional copper proteins such as the blue copper electron transfer proteins stellacyanin, amicyanin, auracyanin, rusticyanin, and so on. Nitrite reductase contains both normal and blue copper enzymes and facilitates the important biological reaction NO) — NO. Solomon s Chemical Reviews article4 contains extensive information on ligand field theory in relation to ground-state electronic properties of copper complexes and the application of... 

The NO/NO+ and NO/NO- self-exchange rates are quite slow (42). Therefore, the kinetics of nitric oxide electron transfer reactions are strongly affected by transition metal complexes, particularly by those that are labile and redox active which can serve to promote these reactions. Although iron is the most important metal target for nitric oxide in mammalian biology, other metal centers might also react with NO. For example, both cobalt (in the form of cobalamin) (43,44) and copper (in the form of different types of copper proteins) (45) have been identified as potential NO targets. In addition, a substantial fraction of the bacterial nitrite reductases (which catalyze reduction of NO2 to NO) are copper enzymes (46). The interactions of NO with such metal centers continue to be rich for further exploration. 

The seminal report of an asymmetric homogeneous metal-catalyzed reaction described the copper-catalyzed group-transfer reaction from a diazoester to an alkene, Eq. 3 (2). This article provided experimental verification of the intervention of copper carbenoid olefin complexes in the catalytic decomposition of diazo com-... 

In a study published concurrently with the Evans bis(oxazoline) results, Jacobsen and co-workers (82) demonstrated that diimine complexes of Cu(I) are effective catalysts for the asymmetric aziridination of cis alkenes, Eq. 66. These authors found that salen-Cu [salen = bis(salicylidene)ethylenediamine] complexes such as 88b Cu are ineffective in the aziridination reaction, in spite of the success of these ligands in oxo-transfer reactions. Alkylation of the aryloxides provided catalysts that exhibit good selectivities but no turnover. The optimal catalyst was found to involve ligands that were capable only of bidentate coordination to copper. 

In addition to cyclopropanation and nitrenoid transfer, a number of other asymmetric group-transfer reactions have been reported using catalytic amounts of copper complexes. Each of these is relatively underexplored compared to the work described above. 

In recent years there has been a tendency to assume that the mechanisms of substitution reactions of metal complexes are well understood. In fact, there are many fundamental questions about substitution reactions which remain to be answered and many aspects which have not been explored. The question of associative versus dissociative mechanisms is still unresolved and is important both for a fundamental understanding and for the predicted behavior of the reactions. The type of experiments planned can be affected by the expectation that reactions are predominantly dissociative or associative. The substitution behavior of newly characterized oxidation states such as copper-(III) and nickel (III) are just beginning to be available. Acid catalysis of metal complex dissociation provides important pathways for substitution reactions. Proton-transfer reactions to coordinated groups can accelerate substitutions. The main... 

In summary, the copper ion transfers an electron from the unsaturated substrate to the diazo-nium cation, and the newly formed diazonium radical quickly loses nitrogen. The aryl radical formed attacks the ethylenic bond within the active complexes that originated from aryldiazo-nium tetrachlorocuprate(II)-olefin or initial arydiazonium salt-catalyst-olefln associates and yields >C(Ar)-C < radical. The latter was detected by the spin-trap ESR spectroscopy. The formation of both the cation-radical [>C=C<] and radical >C(Ar)-C < as intermediates indicates that the reaction involves two catalytic cycles. In the other case, radical >C(Ar)-C < will not be formed, being consumed in the following reaction ... 

A macromolecular complex that allows plants to harvest the sun s photic energy by absorbing photons and using their energy to catalyze photooxidation of plastocyanin, the copper protein situated in the lumen of thylakoid membranes, which undergoes subsequent electron transfer reactions. These reactions are illustrated in Fig. 1. 

Copper(III)-aquo and-amine species have been generated by pulse radiolysis [194] but these are transient species that undergo rapid decay. Electrochemical generation of Cu(III) complexes of macrocyclic amines have been reported in acetonitrile [195] but they are also unstable and undergo spontaneous reduction to Cu(II). Nonetheless, it is presumed that copper(III) intermediates are generated as transients in a number of reactions, particularly those involving copper catalysis of multielectron transfer reactions. 

Catalytic methods are suitable for nitrene transfer," and many of those found to be effective for carbene transfer are also effective for these reactions. However, 5- to 10-times more catalyst is commonly required to take these reactions to completion, and catalysts that are sluggish in metal carbene reactions are unreactive in nitrene transfer reactions. An exception is the copper(ll) complex of a 1,4,7-triaza-cyclononane for which aziridination of styrene occurred in high yield, even with 0.5 mol% of catalyst. Both addition and insertion reactions have been developed. 

Although no direct oxygen transfer reactions from well-characterized rhodium-hydroperoxo or -alkylperoxo complexes to alkenes have yet been reported, these species are probably involved in the rhodium-copper catalyzed ketonization of terminal alkenes by 02, as previously shown in Section 61.3.2.1.3. Rhodium trichloride has been used to catalyze the ketonization of terminal alkenes by H202 or TBHP in alcoholic solvents, but these reactions occur less efficiently than with the Rh/Cu/02 system.207... 

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