Copper species activities

Comparisons of wSome Calculated Copper Species Activities from this work (M-G) with that of Andrew, oX at (ABG)... 

The replacement of vanadia-based catalysts in the reduction of NOx with ammonia is of interest due to the toxicity of vanadium. Tentative investigations on the use of noble metals in the NO + NH3 reaction have been nicely reviewed by Bosch and Janssen [85], More recently, Seker et al. [86] did not completely succeed on Pt/Al203 with a significant formation of N20 according to the temperature and the water composition. Moreover, 25 ppm S02 has a detrimental effect on the selectivity with selectivity towards the oxidation of NH3 into NO enhanced above 300°C. Supported copper-based catalysts have shown to exhibit excellent activity for NOx abatement. Recently Suarez et al and Blanco et al. [87,88] reported high performances of Cu0/Ni0-Al203 monolithic catalysts with NO/NOz = 1 at low temperature. Different oxidic copper species have been previously identified in those catalytic systems with Cu2+, copper aluminate and CuO species [89], Subsequent additions of Ni2+ in octahedral sites of subsurface layers induce a redistribution of Cu2+ with a surface copper enrichment. Such redistribution... 

The ceramized Cu 13X material showed good catalytic activity and stability in the WHPCO of phenol. The performance of the catalyst (reused without any reactivation treatment) during the 10 consecutive reaction cycles proves an outstanding low leaching of copper species. The catalyst was very efficient in poly-phenol and TOC abatement of a real olive oil mill wastewater. 

Potentiometric stripping analysis has been applied by Sheffrin and Williams [320] to the measurement of copper in seawater at environmental pH. The advantage of this technique is that it can be used to specifically measure the biologically active labile copper species in seawater samples at desired pH values. The method was applied to seawater samples that had passed a 0.45 pm Millipore filter. Samples were studied both at high and at low pH values. 

As stated previously, the total normal cytoplasmic free copper concentration is less than 10 18 M or less than one copper ion per cell. In thermodynamic terms, almost all hydrated copper ions are immediately and tightly coordinated by amino acids or biopolymers—peptides, proteins, and other species with free sulfur ligands. An excess of copper ions activates metallothionein synthesis for storage or removal of the excess. Copper chaperones mediate transfer of copper ions from extracellular or storage locations to their target proteins. Instability of copper ion concentrations in vivo results in various disease states. Three of these—FALS, Menkes, and Wilson s diseases—are described below. 

Figure 3. A pH-pE diagram for the Cu-S-H,0-H -e system at 298.15 K where the sulfur is present in excess of copper. The activities of the predominant sulfur and copper solution species are 10 and 10 6, respectively.

There are no mechanistic details known from intermediates of copper, like we have seen in the studies on metathesis, where both metal alkylidene complexes and metallacyclobutanes that are active catalysts have been isolated and characterised. The copper catalyst must fulfil two roles, first it must decompose the diazo compound in the carbene and dinitrogen and secondly it must transfer the carbene fragment to an alkene. Copper carbene species, if involved, must be rather unstable, but yet in view of the enantioselective effect of the ligands on copper, clearly the carbene fragment must be coordinated to copper. It is generally believed that the copper carbene complex is rather a copper carbenoid complex, as the highly reactive species has reactivities very similar to free carbenes. It has not the character of a metal-alkylidene complex that we have encountered on the left-hand-side of the periodic table in metathesis (Chapter 16). Carbene-copper species have been observed in situ (in a neutral copper species containing an iminophosphanamide as the anion), but they are still very rare [9],... 

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... 

Fukuzumi and co-workers described spectroscopic evidence for a ix-rf- ] -peroxo-(Cu )2 species stabilized with a fcidentate nitrogen ligand, but no (catalytic) oxidation behavior towards catechol was noted (a related trinu-clear copper species converted 2,4-di-ferf-butylphenol stoichiometrically towards the biphenol derivative) [224], Stack et al. have described a similar ] -peroxo-(Cu )2 species (28, vide supra) that could be considered a structural and functional model for tyrosinase-activity, as it efficiently reacted with catechol, benzyl alcohol and benzylamine to yield quinone (95%), benzaldehyde (80%) and benzonitrile (70%) [172,173]. This dinuclear per-0X0 species is generated by association of two monomeric copper centers, in contrast to the systems based on dinucleating Ugand scaffolds described above. 

Nonstereospecific aerobic epoxidations of alkenes in the presence of aldehydes catalyzed by nickel(II),298 iron(in),299 and cobalt(II)300 complexes, and clay-supported nickel acetylacetonate301,302 have been reported. A radical mechanism has been postulated. The involvement of active copper species and peracids were suggested in a similar reaction catalyzed by copper salts.303... 

Activators are chemicals that permit or reinforce the adsorption of collectors onto particles, usually by complexing with the collector, or bridging between the collector and the solid. For example, sphalerite (ZnS) can only be floated using ethyl xanthate as a collector if the particles are first treated with copper sulfate. The copper species adsorbs first and acts as a bridge to the xanthate, allowing it to function as a collector for the sphalerite. 

Studies performed on the anaerobic version of this catalytic system revealed that aliphatic primary alcohols were oxidized with the same efficiency as all the other classes of alcohols, thus ruling out complexes A, B, and E as the culprit for the decomposition pathway. Whilst we could not experimentally disgard complex D, coordination of an alcohol to D should involve the participation of a pentacoordi-nated copper species. Whilst these are not uncommon, their formation requires a higher activation energy than the coordination to C. 

There is presumably more than a subtle difference between the reactions of alkyl and aryl halides with organocopper compounds, as a straightforward nucleophilic displacement of aryl halide by the d electrons of a copper species is hardly likely. Simple aryl halides are nearly all inert to the usual nucleophiles, such as alkoxides, unless strongly activated by electron-attracting groups in the ortho and para positions. However, coordination of the halogen to copper may be sufficient to... 

Rates of degradation observed in the presence of ionic iron and copper systems have been compared with those obtained for the respective acetylacetonate chelate systems in Tables X and XI. Lower relative lifetime and relative stability values are observed for the copper(II) acetylacetonate catalyzed system than those obtained in the presence of higher concentrations of the ionic copper species. A similar increase in the catalytic efficiency of copper upon coordination has been reported by Ericsson et al. (10). However, iron(III) acetylacetonate shows no catalytic effect at all. This observation of contrary effects on the stability of paper with the same chelates of two highly active transition metal catalysts is most interesting. Unlike the relatively stable octahedral iron(III) acetylacetonate molecule, the tetrahedral, tetracoordinate copper(II) chelate could accept two more ligands if it were to assume an... 

Correlation Coefficients Between the Activities of Copper Species in the 26 point Calculations... 

In the following sections, factor analysis and multiple regression are used in an attempt to determine the relative toxicity of the copper species discussed above. The activities of eight... 

A value of 14.3 was used in the species calculations in the first part of this paper. Log 3 was changed to 11.8 and the speciation calculation was repeated with all other input data held constant. Since Cu(0H)p was the dominant copper species in the first calculation, the effect of changing the stability constant by a factor of 300 has a marked effect on the calculated activities (Table VII and Table IX). The resulting activities were used as input for factor analysis. In Table X are shown the factors or the 26 point case. Decreasing the stability constant of CuCOH) V/300 fold causes a shift in the loading of Cu(0H)p from Factor 1 to Factor 2, of CuCO from Factor 3 to Factor 1 and of Cu(OH) from Factor 1 to Factor 2, with minimal changes for the other species. Examination... 

Thereafter, crystals were brought back to the aerobic 25% MPD solution, buffered with 50 mAf sodium phosphate, pH 5.5. This procedure is based on Avigliano et al. s (157) method of preparing T2D ascorbate oxidase in solution and was modified by Merli et al. (159) for use with ascorbate oxidase crystals. The 2.5-A-resolution X-ray structure analysis by difference-Fourier techniques and crystallographic refinement shows that about 1.3 copper ions per ascorbate oxidase monomer are removed. The copper is lost from all three copper sites of the trinuclear copper species, whereby the EPR-active type-2 copper is the most depleted (see Fig. 10). Type-1 copper is not affected. The EPR spectra from polycrystalline samples of the respective native and T2D ascorbate oxidase were recorded. The native spectrum exhibits the type-1 and type-2 EPR signals in a ratio of about 1 1, as expected from the crystal structure. The T2D spectrum reveals the characteristic resonances of the type-1 copper center, also observed for T2D ascorbate oxidase in frozen solution, and the complete disappearance of the spectroscopic type-2 copper. This observation indicates preferential formation of a Cu-depleted form with the holes equally distributed over all three copper sites. Each of these Cu-depleted species may represent an anti-ferromagnetically coupled copper pair that is EPR-silent and that could explain the disappearance of the type-2 EPR signal. 

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