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Pd(H20)4] at 40°C [73]. A kinetic study indicated that internal attack on the Pd-co-ordinated nitrile ligand by the aqua (not hydroxide) ligand and external attack on the nitrile ligand by solvent water occur at a similar rate. 

LADH contains a tetrahedral zinc which is coordinated by one histidine nitrogen and two cysteine sulfurs. One aim is to make synthetic analogs of this coordination sphere that also feature the catalytically important water or hydroxide ligand in the fourth coordination site. Analogs containing bound substrates such as alcohols are also of interest. 

Finally we should briefly mention the purple acid phosphatases, which, unlike the alkaline phosphatases, are able to hydrolyse phosphate esters at acid pH values. Their purple colour is associated with a Tyr to Fe(III) charge transfer band. The mammalian purple acid phosphatase is a dinuclear Fe(II)-Fe(III) enzyme, whereas the dinuclear site in kidney bean purple acid phosphatase (Figure 12.13) has a Zn(II), Fe(III) centre with bridging hydroxide and Asp ligands. It is postulated that the iron centre has a terminal hydroxide ligand, whereas the zinc has an aqua ligand. We do not discuss the mechanism here, but it must be different from the alkaline phosphatase because the reaction proceeds with inversion of configuration at phosphorus. 

However, the latter residue is in no sense equivalent to the Tyr 25 of the P. pantotrophus enzyme. The Tyr 10, which is not an essential residue (19), is provided by the other subunit to that in which it is positioned close to the di heme iron (Fig. 6). In other words, there is a crossing over of the domains. A reduced state structure of the P. aeruginosa enzyme has only been obtained with nitric oxide bound to the d heme iron (20) (Fig. 6). As expected, the heme c domain is unaltered by the reduction, but the Tyr 10 has moved away from the heme d iron, and clearly the hydroxide ligand to the d heme has dissociated so as to allow the binding of the nitric oxide (Fig. 6). This form of the enzyme was prepared by first reducing with ascorbate and then adding nitrite. 

It has long been known that, under some conditions at least, electron transfer between the c and d hemes of the P aeruginosa enzyme is slow and requires times of the order of seconds (22). What does this mean It is not necessarily related to the loss of the hydroxide ligand from the d heme iron, because under some experimental conditions used, azurin (a cupredoxin) was present and the enzyme was reduced at the outset,... 

Resonance Raman studies of Fe- and Cu-contalnlng proteins have led to the Identification of tyrosine, histidine, cysteine, and hydroxide ligands as well as Fe-0 and Fe-S clusters. For the Fe-0 clusters, the frequency and oxygen Isotope dependence of the Fe-O-Fe symmetric stretch relates to Fe-O-Fe bond angle, while the peak Intensity relates to the disposition of the other ligands In the cluster. 

By comparison, all bonds other than Sn - C in the tin hydroxides are quite strong. In ClsSnOH the bond energies are 125 kcalmor 95 kcal mol and 87 kcal mol for the 0 - H, Sn - 0, and Sn - Cl bonds, respectively. Thus, it appears likely that the hydroxide ligand is quite stable and could survive transit through the thermal boundary layer in a CVD reactor and form tin oxide. 

Hydroxy-bridged complexes [Pt2(,u-OH)2(PEt3)4]2+ can also be prepared. The structure consists of two square planar platinum(II) centers bridged by hydroxide ligands with an angle of 36.4° between the mean plane normals.1569 A useful method to prepare these complexes involves the use of phase-transfer catalysis with crown ethers to facilitate the reaction of KOH with platinum(II) chloro complexes.1570... 

A co-ordinated hydroxide ligand will still possess some of the nucleophilic properties of free hydroxide ion, and this observation proves to be the basis of a powerful catalytic method, and one which is at the basis of very many basic biological processes. In general, hydrolysis reactions proceed more rapidly if a water nucleophile is replaced by a charged hydroxide nucleophile. This is readily rationalised on the basis of the increased attraction of the charged ion for an electrophilic centre. However, in many cases the chemical properties of the substrate are not compatible with the properties of the strongly basic hydroxide ion. This is exactly the situation that biological systems find themselves in repeatedly. For example, the uncatalysed hydration of carbon dioxide is very slow at pH 7 (Fig. 5-61). 

In the preceding section we discussed the use of co-ordinated hydroxide as an intramolecular nucleophile. It could also act as a nucleophile to an external electrophile. Over the past few decades, there has been considerable interest in the nucleophilic properties of metal-bound hydroxide ligands. One of the principal reasons for this relates to the widespread occurrence of Lewis acidic metals at the active site of hydrolytic enzymes. There has been a lively discussion over the past thirty years on the relative merits of mechanisms involving nucleophilic attack by metal-co-ordinated hydroxide upon a substrate or attack by external hydroxide upon metal-co-ordinated substrate. As we have shown above, both of these mechanisms are possible with non-labile model systems. 

However, we may also design model systems to study the reactions of co-ordinated hydroxide with external electrophiles. The simplest models utilise non-labile complexes with a single hydroxide ligand, such as [M(NH3)5(OH)]2+ (M = Co or Rh). Various electrophiles have been shown to react with such metal-bound hydroxide ligands, and some of these reactions are indicated in Fig. 5-73. 

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