Hydroperoxo intermediate

Figure 18.5 Plausible sequence of steps responsible for rapid and selective reduction of O2 to H2O by mixed-valence CcO. The square frames signify the catalytic site (Fig. 18.4c) imidazole ligation of Cub is omitted for clarity in some or aU intermediates, Cub may additionally be ligated by an exogenous ligand, such as H2O (in Cu ) or OH (in Cu ) such ligation is not established, and hence is omitted in all but compound Pm and the putative hydroperoxo intermediate. The dashed frames signify the noncatalytic redox cofactors. Typically used phenomenological names of the spectroscopically observed intermediates (compounds A, E, H, etc.) are also indicated.

An increase in the fraction of the four-electron reduction pathway at more reducing potentials (Fig. 18.10a, b) may be rationalized within at least two mechanisms. The first is based on the kinetic competition between the release of H2O2 from the ferric-hydroperoxo intermediate [Reaction (18.16) in Fig. 18.11] and its (reversible) reduction to a ferrous-hydroperoxo species, which undergoes rapid 0-0 bond heterolysis (18.13b). Because H2O2 and particularly HO2 are more basic ligands... 

Within the mechanism in Fig. 18.11, it seems implausible that simple Fe porphyrins can be effective ORR catalysts, since large overpotentials are required to access intermediates in which 0-0 bond heterolysis is facile. The only strategy discovered so far to facilitate this 0-0 bond heterolysis in the ferric-hydroperoxo intermediate is to control both the distal and the proximal environments of Fe porphyrins. In those cases, the overpotential of ORR reduction appears to be controlled by the potential of the (por)Fe / couple (see Section 18.6). 

The low limit on the rate constant fehetero of 0-0 bond heterolysis in the putative ferric-hydroperoxo intermediate by analyzing the turnover frequency of H2O2 reduction at potentials 0.6-0.4 V (vs. NHE at pH 7). 

The ligand 4,5-bis(di(2-pyridylmethyl)aminomethyl)imidazole has been utilized in the formation of Cu-Zn dinuclear complex [CuZnL(CH3CN)2](C104)3. The resonance Raman spectra of hydroperoxo intermediates were studied.117... 

The kinetics and the mechanism of superoxide reduction by SORs have been studied by several researchers. It was suggested that SORs react with superoxide via an inner-sphere mechanism, binding superoxide at ferrous center to form a ferric hydroperoxo intermediate [46,48 50]. The rate constant for this reaction is equal to 108 109 1 mol-1 s-1 [46,49], This... 

We considered [71] the epoxidation activity of MoVI hydroperoxo intermediates formed via opening an ti2-02 peroxo group ... 

The metal-peroxo species are considered to have a side-on structure (bidentate coordination of the peroxide ligand) and to be very unstable in protic medium (8). Under physiological conditions, after the first protonation and formation of a hydroperoxo intermediate (Scheme 2), the second protonation of this intermediate can proceed in two distinctly different pathways. In one case the second protonation results in the release of hydrogen peroxide from the metal center, leaving the metal oxidation state unchanged (Scheme 2). This is a crucial step in the catalytic cycles of SODs and SORs, especially in the catalytic mechanism of manganese SODs, which exist in the hydrophobic mitochondrial matrix. If protonation is not efficient, the... 

The pseudocyclic peroxymetalation process (outer half-circle of Scheme 3) involves the protonated hydroperoxo intermediate (70b) as the reactive intermediate and appears more likely... 

Later the same groups extended studies of the role played by substrate in the formation and reactivity of hydroperoxo-intermediate in CYP101 by implementing labeled substrates and using 13C and 19F ENDOR for the detection of multiple conformational substates of the bound substrate.117 Two distances and two azimuthal angles (r = 4.5 A, 0 30°, and r = 4.8 A, 0 50°) have been resolved for the radius-... 

Scheme 27 Peroxo and hydroperoxo intermediates in aerobic oxidation...

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