Hydroperoxo copper

Copper Superoxo Complexes 16.4.3 Copper Hydroperoxo, Alkylperoxo, and Acylperoxo Complexes 5 OXYGENATION OF C—H BONDS RELATED TO COPPER... 

In the case of copper complexes, the chemistry is less well understood. High valent copper-oxo species are not likely to be formed, consequently copper-hydroperoxo or copper-hydroxo species are usually proposed as active species in DNA oxidation. These species are thus more susceptible to homo-lytic cleavage of the peroxide or the metal-hydroxo bond and consequently, to 1-electron oxidation mechanism. However, the labeling of the product of deoxyribose oxidation at Cl by Cu(l,10-phenanthroline)2 clearly demonstrated that these complexes can mediate a 2-electron oxidation mechanism of DNA damage since the oxygen atom incorporated in DNA originates from H2O. 

Recently, great progress has been made in the clarification of the reaction mechanism of DpM. The formation of a copper hydroperoxo intermediate has been suggested by Klinman et al. as shown in Scheme 11 [183]. Requirement of proton uptake prior to substrate hydroxylation has been indicated from the results on the pH-dependent isotope effects, suggesting the formation of the copper hydroperoxo intermediate [183]. A generation of the benzylic radical from the substrate in the catalytic cycle has been postulated from the experiments using inhibitors [206, 207]. While the copper hydroperoxo intermediate is a possible candidate as an active intermediate which is... 

Transition metal hydroperoxo species are well established as important intermediates in the oxidation of hydrocarbons (8,70,71). As they relate to the active oxygenating reagent in cytochrome P-450 monooxygenase, (porphyrin)M-OOR complexes have come under recent scmtiny because of their importance in the process of (poiphyrin)M=0 formation via 0-0 cleavage processes (72-74). In copper biochemistry, a hydroperoxo copper species has been hypothesized as an important intermediate in the catalytic reaction of the copper monooxygenase, dopamine P-hydroxylase (75,76). A Cu-OOH moiety has also been proposed to be involved in the disproportionation of superoxide mediated by the copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (77-78). Thus, model Cun-OOR complexes may be of... 

The highly beneficial effect of copper salts on the activity and selectivity of the rhodium catalyst still remains poorly understood. One of the likely hypotheses is that Cu1 reduces 02 to form Cu2022 which favors the formation of the active rhodium-hydroperoxo species.207... 

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... 

In light of the accepted mechanism for cytochrome P-450 (97-100), a superoxo-Cu(II) intermediate is further reduced, leading to dioxygen activation. Accordingly, a monomeric peroxo or hydroperoxo copper(II) complex serves as a synthetic model for these intermediates of copper-containing monooxygenases. However, no well-characterized complexes of these types are available to date. Formation of a monomeric hydroperoxo or acylperoxo complex was reported to occur when a trans-/u-l,2-peroxo complex, [(Cu(TPA))2(02)]z+, was treated with H+ or RC(O)+, but no details of the structures and properties of the complexes were provided (101). A related complex, a monomeric acylperoxo cop-per(II) complex, was synthesized (102). Low-temperature reaction of a dimeric copper(II) hydroxide complex, [Cu(HB(3,5-iPr2pz)3)]2(OH)2, with 2 equivalents of m-CPBA (3-chloroperoxybenzoic acid) yielded a monomeric acylperoxo complex whose structure was characterized by... 

A trans-n- 1,2-Peroxo Dicopper(II) Complex. Our own efforts have resulted in the structural and spectroscopic characterization of five types of copper-dioxygen complexes (6), distinguished on the basis of the ligands used for their synthesis and on their distinctive structures or physical properties. Thus, the manner in which hemocyanin binds 02 is not the only one possible, and it is of considerable interest to deduce the structures, along with associated spectroscopy and reactivity of a variety of types. Dioxygen can bind to dinuclear transition metals in a variety of structural modes, shown in Figure 2. As mentioned, mode C is present in oxy-Hc and Kitajima s model complex (Scheme 1), whereas we have structural and spectroscopic evidence for types A (30-32), B (33-35), and F (36-38) for peroxo 022- binding, and mode D (39, 40) in the case of hydroperoxo (OOH ) complexes. 

Figure 14 Single-crystal X-ray structure of (69), a copper(II) hydroperoxo complex. All carbon-bound...

It can be a Cu -hydroperoxo species formed as in Eq. (17) of Fig. 13. A homolysis of the 0-0 bound could allow the abstraction of a hydrogen atom from DNA that gives rise to a DNA radical and a new copper complex (Cu -0 or its canonical form Cu =0), Eq. (18). This last intermediate may... 

Some of these activated species like HO Cu -hydroperoxo, or Cu -hydroxo have been also proposed in the case of the oxidations of the DNA nucleobases (55). Various mechanisms like HO addition on a double-bound, hydrogen abstraction on the methyl groups or electron transfer induce nucleobases oxidations and copper complexes are oxidant enough to perform them, but, in the presence of excess of reductants, such as in the conditions often used during DNA oxidation by copper complexes, oxidized nucleobases (base radicals and radical cations) may be reduced back to undamaged species. Thus the ability of copper complexes to oxidize nucleobases could be underestimated. 

The hydroperoxo complex of [Cu2(L66)] has been spectroscopically characterized at low temperature. Its spectral features consist of a moderately intense LMCT band at 342 nm (As 8600 M cm ) and two weaker bands at 444 nm (As 850M cm ) and 610 nm (As 400 M cm ). This pattern of LMCT bands differs from those exhibited by mononuclear copper(II)-hydroperoxo complexes and suggests a bridging binding mode of the... 

The catalytic mechanism of GOase has been extensively studied (Fig. 8) 63,64). The primary alcohol first coordinates to the active species A, leading to the formation of the metal-phenoxyl radical complex B. This species undergoes proton abstraction from the substrate by the axial tyrosinate (Tyr495), followed by a rapid intramolecular electron transfer from the intermediate ketyl radical anion with reduction of Cu to Cul The copper(I) species C reacts with dioxygen to form the hydroperoxo copper(II) complex D with the liberation of the aldehyde. Finally, dihydrogen peroxide is released to give back the active form of the enzyme. 

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