Porphyrins iron, with

Reaction of free-base porphyrin compounds with iton(II) salts in an appropriate solvent results in loss of the two N—H protons and insertion of iron into the tetradentate porphyrin dianion ligand. Five-coordinate iton(III) porphyrin complexes (hemins), which usually have the anion of the iton(II) salt for the fifth or axial ligand, ate isolated if the reaction is carried out in the presence of air. Iron(II) porphyrin complexes (hemes) can be isolated if the reaction and workup is conducted under rigorously anaerobic conditions. Typically, however, iton(II) complexes are obtained from iton(III) porphyrin complexes by reduction with dithionite, thiolate, borohydtide, chromous ion, or other reducing agents. 

Another iron porphyrin complex with 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(2, 6 -dichloro-3 -sulfonatophenyl)porphyrin was applied in ionic liquids and oxidized veratryl alcohol (3,4-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol) with hydrogen peroxide in yields up to 83% to the aldehyde as the major product [145]. In addition, TEMPO was incorporated via... 

High-valent iron also occurs in -nitrido bridged dimers with linear [Fe °-N=Fe" ]" and [Fe =N=Fe ] " cores [209, 210] (and references therein). Such compounds have been prepared first by thermolysis [247] or photolysis [248] of iron(III)-porphyrin complexes with an azide ligand, (N3). Mixed-valent iron-nitrido porphyrin dimers exhibit valence delocalization as can be inferred from the... 

These researchers also described [93] the design and synthesis of iron(II) porphyrin dendrimers with triethylene glycol monomethyl, ether surface groups (e.g., 31) which render them soluble in a wide range of organic solvents and water. The potential difference between the first (1 FeCl) and second generation (2 FeCl) Fe-porphryin dendrimers was found to increase more in water than in dichloromethane (0.42 vs 0.08 V). This remarkable potential difference between 2 FeCl and 1 FeCl in water was comparable with that found between cytochrome c and a similarly ligated, more solvent-exposed cytochrome c heme model compound. 

Towards understanding biological electron transfer processes many researchers have reported the synthesis of dendrimers with electroactive cores (e.g., porphyrin). Dendrimers with organic dendrons attached tetrahedrally around an inorganic, electroactive iron-sulfur core were reported by Gorman and coworkers [109]. These are the first examples of dendrimers with a hybrid... 

Note that while nickel (in Archaea) and cobalt porphyrins show little or no development and are more or less lost later in evolution, use of iron porphyrins advanced with the use of 02, NO, SOj" and NO-, that is under new oxidising conditions. 

TABLE 12. Reduction potentials of porphyrin-iron carbonyl complexes of germanium and tin in CH2CI2 with TBA(PF<5), 0.1 M, on Au electrodes vs SCEa... 

Porphyrins 21 are the backbone of major players in life cycles—cytochromes (Scheme 8). There are three types of cytochromes, classified by their color, or more precisely by their long-wavelength absorption band, as a (600 mn), b (563 nm), and c (550 nm). They are protein conjugates of a porphyrin complex with iron(II), which is a coenzyme called heme (22). In plants, porphyrins form a complex with magnesium-(II) chlorophylls a and b (23), vital in photosynthesis. Porphyrin derivatives are used in photodynamic therapy for dermatological diseases such as psoriasis, and for skin or subcutaneous cancer.5c-e... 

As an example of the techniques/ Figure 4 shows a comparison of the fungicidally active RR- diclobutrazol with the natural substrate lanosterol. The sterol C-32 alcohol is chelated to the iron porphyrin. The three central features of the model cytochrome P-450 can be elucidated. The hydrophobic binding site, the polar region between this hydrophobic region and the heme plane/ and a common complexation to the porphyrin iron. 

The bis-hydroxylamine adduct [Fe (tpp)(NH20H)2] is stable at low temperatures, but decomposes to [Fe(tpp)(NO)] at room temperature. [Fe(porphyrin)(NO)] complexes can undergo one-and two-electron reduction the nature of the one-electron reduction product has been established by visible and resonance Raman spectroscopy. Reduction of [Fe(porphyrin)(NO)] complexes in the presence of phenols provides model systems for nitrite reductase conversion of coordinated nitrosyl to ammonia (assimilatory nitrite reduction), while further relevant information is available from the chemistry of [Fe (porphyrin)(N03)]. Iron porphyrin complexes with up to eight nitro substituents have been prepared and shown to catalyze oxidation of hydrocarbons by hydrogen peroxide and the hydroxylation of alkoxybenzenes. ... 

Unusual iron-porphyrin vinylidene complexes were obtained from DDT [l,l-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2,2-tricMoroethane] and Fe(tpp) [tpp = meso-tetraphenylporphinato (2-)] in the presence ofa reducing agent [10a, 264]. The derived N,N -vinylene-bridged porphyrin reacts with metal carbonyls [Fe3(CO)i2, Ru3(CO)i2] to break one or both N—C bonds with insertion of the vinylidene into an M—N bond. While the iron complex was formed in 90% yield, the reaction with Ru3(CO)i2 afforded three products, the vinylidene being formed in only 40% yield [265]. 

This review is intended to give an overview of the recent progress in the area of the formation of metalloporphyrins (the mechanism of the direct metalation reaction) and their reactions with small molecules (CO, NO, H20, 02). Although the emphasis is on less studied examples, a selection of recent results on iron (II) porphyrin complexes with CO and NO is also included. 

The heme group is a porphyrin ring with an iron atom at (he center (Fig. 19.2). The oxidation state8 of the iron may be either +2 or +3. and the importance of the... 

Several porphyrin analogues with the pyrrolic nitrogens substituted by heteroatoms have been synthesized, but only the oxa analogues (23 X = O, Y = NH) are reported to form stable metal complexes (Figure 8). 60 Formation of a Zn complex of the thia analogue (23 X = S, Y = NH) requires the presence of a large excess of Zn" ion. An iron complex of dithiaporphyrin (23 X = Y = S) is also known. 

A close-up view of the iron-porphyrin complex with the F helix in deoxyhemoglobin. Note that the iron atom is displaced slightly above the plane of the porphyrin. (Illustration copyright by Irving Geis. Reprinted by permission.)... 

The eclipsed tetra-BINAP porphyrin 171 was conveniently synthesized by condensation of the meso-tetrakis(2,6-dihydroxyphenyl)porphyrin 173 with the (S)-BINAP derivative 174 in the presence of K2C03. After removal of the staggered isomer iron was inserted by addition of Fe(CO)5/I2, and the resulting Fe(III)-complex 171 was used as a catalyst (0.2%) to epoxidize a series of six styrene derivatives in the presence of an excess of PhIO. In every case the corresponding (R)-epoxides were preferentially formed in yields up to 72%. The best ee-values were obtained for the electron deficient substrates 2-nitrostyrene (80% ee) and pentafluorostyrene (74% ee), [114],... 

The porphyrin-iron(III)-peroxo complex [Fe(TPP)02] (163) was prepared by the reaction of K02 with Fen(TPP) in the presence of a crown ether, and characterized by spectroscopic methods [p(0—O) = 806 cm-1]542. This peroxo complex (163) was found to be inactive toward hydrocarbons. However, addition of excess acetic anhydride to (163) dissolved in a benzene-cyclohexane mixture results in the formation of cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone. This reaction is thought to proceed via acylation of the peroxo group, giving iron percarboxylate (164), which decomposes to an Fev-oxo compound (165) capable of hydroxylating alkanes.543 Such a mechanism has been suggested for the hydroxylation of camphor by Pseudomonas cytochrome P-450.544... 

Kurland et al. (64) observed hyperfine-shifted resonances of ferrimyoglobin between —20 and —90 ppm. Comparison with the spectra of the iron(III)-complexes with protoporphyrin IX, deuteroporphyrin IX, and mesoporphyrin IX seems to indicate that four of the low field resonances correspond to the four ring methyl groups. Additional lines at high fields from DSS were observed in ferrimyoglobin (116), and in high spin porphyrin-iron(III) complexes (Caughey et al. (19)). The observation... 

Another approach to improved chemoselectivity utilizes sterically hindered alkenes, as reported by Konoike et al. (Scheme 3.25) [115]. Ursolic add 12, a steroid with a highly congested trisubstituted double bond, undergoes allylic hydroxylation at the C-ll position with MCPBA and tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin iron chloride [Fe(PFPP)Cl] as a catalyst to give a single diastereomer 13 in 91% yield. With sterically less encumbered systems only epoxidation was observed. 

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