One-electron redox

Concerning the role of the active site Fe ion, it has been argued that the observed FTIR band shifts (typically 20 cm ) resulting from one-electron redox changes are too small to correspond to metal-based redox processes, whose band shifts should amount to about 100 cm per electron (90, 101). There is, however, one example where the shift in f(CN ) upon one-electron reduction of a Fe(III) center is only of... 

In metal complexes of FTF5 and DPA, both single two-electron and double one-electron redox couples were observed. [(FTF5)Zn2] is diamagnetic, whereas the EPR spectmm of [(DPA)Zn2] was interpreted as that of a triplet that was complicated by aggregation. Why the ground electronic state of [(DPA)Zn2] is a triplet remains to be established a triplet porphyrin diradical was thought to be unique in porphyrin chemistry [LeMest et al., 1992]. 

The third fact that seemed to argue in favor of the occurrence of radicals 10 was the observation that reactions of a-tocopherol under typical radical conditions, that is, at the presence of radical initiators in inert solvents or under irradiation, provided also large amounts of two-electron oxidation products such as o-QM 3 and its spiro dimerization product 9 (Fig. 6.8).16,25,26 This was taken as support of a disproportionation reaction involving a-tocopheroxyl radical 2 and its hypothetical tautomeric chromanol methide radical 10, affording one molecule of o-QM 3 (oxidation) and regenerating one molecule of 1 (reduction). The term disproportionation was used here to describe a one-electron redox process with concomitant transfer of a proton, that is, basically a H-atom transfer from hypothetical 10 to radical 2. 

The two-electron oxidation of the dye is not very common other dyes usually undergo one-electron redox reactions. The cathodic reaction (taking place in the non-illuminated cell compartment) regenerates the complementary redox system ... 

Reductive and oxidative transformations of small ring compounds form the basis of a variety of versatile synthetic methods which include functionalization and carbon skeleton construction. Redox mechanisms of organotransition metal compounds play an important role in inducing or catalyzing specific reactions. Another useful route in this area is based on one-electron redox reactions. The redox tautomerism of dialkyl phosphonate also contributes to the efficiency of the reductive transformation of small ring compounds. This review summarizes selective transformations which have a high potential for chemical synthesis. 

Another important class of redox reactions is referred to as one-electron transfer. One of the most useful procedures is based on a one-electron redox reaction of a metal complex. The radicals concomitantly generated by both oxidation and reduction are envisaged as being versatile intermediates in unique ring transformations. 

Steenken, S. One Electron Redox Reactions between Radicals and Organic Molecules. An Addition/Elimination (Inner-Sphere) Path. 177, 125-146 (1996). 

Using solvent-containing triruthenium species 1 as a synthetic precursor, a series of pyridyl-substituted triruthenium derivatives [Ru30(0Ac)6(py)2(L)]+ (L = 4,4 -bpy 5, BPE 6, BPA 7) were prepared by Meyer et al. [9]. Electrochemical studies showed that these triruthenium complexes exhibit four to five reversible one-electron redox waves in the potential range of +2.0 to —2.0 V, suggesting that these complexes can... 

By introducing redox-active N-methyl-4,4/-bipyridinium ion (mbpy+) to the oxo-centered triruthenium cores, a series of triruthenium derivatives bearing two or three axially coordinated mbpy+ were prepared by Abe et al. [12, 13]. Electrochemical studies indicated that these mbpy+-containing triruthenium complexes afforded a total of seven to nine reversible or quasi-reversible redox waves in acetonitrile solutions at ambient temperature. Of these redox waves, four or five one-electron redox processes arise from RU3 -based oxidations or reductions involving five or six formal oxidation states, including... 

The conversion of hydroperoxide/peroxide to superoxide is a one-electron redox reaction and requires the presence of transition metals having accessible multiple oxidation states as in biological iron or manganese clusters (e.g., Fe(II, III, IV) clusters of monooxygenase or the Mn(II, HI, IV) clusters of photosystems). Ti is usually not reduced at ambient temperatures. The various possibilities that could facilitate the transformation of hydroperoxo/peroxo to superoxo species are as follows ... 

The octahedral complexes, pale green [VmL], purple VlvL]PF6, and blue-black [VvL](C104)2, where L represents a l,4,7-tris(2-hydroxybenzyl)-l,4,7-triazacyclononane derivative, serve as an example where all one-electron redox processes are clearly metal centered as depicted in Eq. (6). Table III lists the complexes prepared (148b, 152, 153). 

After formation of an O-coordinated ketyl radical anion and a cis coordinated tyrosin via hydrogen abstraction, a rapid intramolecular one-electron redox reaction occurs with release of the product aldehyde and formation of the fully reduced active site containing a Cu(I) ion, which then reacts with 02 to give H202 and the active enzyme. The above sequence represents Nature s mechanistic blueprint for coordination chemists. 

FIGURE 5.7. Effect of changing the cosubstrate and the pH on the kinetics of an homogeneous redox enzyme reaction as exemplified by the electrochemical oxidation of glucose by glucose oxidase mediated by one-electron redox cosubstrates, ferricinium methanol ( ), + ferricinium carboxylate ( ), and (dimethylammonio)ferricinium ( ). Variation of the rate constant, k3, with pH. Ionic strength, 0.1 M temperature 25°C. Adapted from Figure 3 in reference 11, with permission from the American Chemical Society. 

Thus there is little doubt that the hydroxyl radical, if generated by an unambiguous method such as pulse radiolysis, can be trapped by PBN or DMPO, even if the former has several deficiencies, among them low trapping efficiency and short half-life of HO-PBN. The problem in hydroxyl radical trapping thus rests with the possible competition from the nucleophilic addition-oxidation mechanism, as exemplified in reaction (69) for DMPO and Ox-Red as a general one-electron redox system, or the inverted spin trapping mechanism (70). The treatment to follow will mostly be limited to DMPO. 

In agreement with the redox activity of the ligand, the complex shows a rich sequence of one-electron redox processes. The most significant is the [FeII(phen)3]2 + /[FeIII(phen)3]3+ oxidation, which is chemically and... 

As illustrated in Figure 14, this derivative also undergoes three separate, reversible, one-electron redox processes (2 + / + /0/—) ... 

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