Rebound mechanism

These results are inconsistent with a radical rebound mechanism because this mechanism is a two-step process that requires the involvement of intermediates. Instead the results suggest that the hydroxylation is a concerted process, much like a singlet carbene reaction, which does not involve intermediates. However, this conclusion is in conflict with the properties of singlet carbene reactions discussed above. Subsequent studies on a number of substituted methylcyclopropanes and other stained hydrocarbon systems established that these findings were not anomalous. 

To explore the mechanism of allylic hydroxylation, three probe substrates, 3,3,6,6-tetradeuterocyclohexene, methylene cyclohexane, and /l-pinenc, were studied (113). Each substrate yielded a mixture of two allylic alcohols formed as a consequence of either retention or rearrangement of the double bond. The observation of a significant deuterium isotope effect (4-5) in the oxidation of 3,3,6,6-tetradeuterocyclohexene together with the formation of a mixture of un-rearranged and rearranged allylic alcohols from all three substrates is most consistent with a hydrogen abstraction-oxygen rebound mechanism (Fig. 4.48). 

Ogliaro F, Harris N, Cohen S, et al. A model rebound mechanism of hydroxylation by cytochrome P450 stepwise and effectively concerted pathways, and their reactivity patterns. J Am Chem Soc 2000 122(37) 8977-8989. 

A and BC approach to centre of mass, A strips off B and then AB and C return roughly in the direction from which they came. These reactions are said to occur by a rebound mechanism and generally occur when the surface are repulsive. In such reactions the life-time of activated complex, i.e. (ABC) must be short and reaction is said to be direct or impulsive. If life-time is much, rotation may occur and the products may separate in random directions. For many such reactions, the life-time of complexes has been observed less then 5 x 10 13sec. J.C. Polanyi discussed the relationship of these reactions with shapes of PES with special attention to mass effects. 

Fig. 9.36 Direction of motion of reactants and products relative to centre of mass (rebound mechanism).

He, X. and Ortiz de Montellano, P.R. (2004) Radical rebound mechanism in cytochrome P-450 catalyzed hydroxylation of multifaceted radical clocks a-and p-thujone. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279, 39479-39484. 

Figure 7.19 The Groves oxygen rebound mechanism for alkane hydroxylation.

The oxygen rebound mechanism was supported by experimental evidence including (1) high kinetic isotope effects, (2) partial positional or stereochemical scrambling, and (3) allylic rearrangements. For instance, in the presence of [Fe(TPP)Cl] and PhIO, dx-stilbene was stereospecihcally epoxidized. In addition, it was found that cis-stilbene was 15 times more reactive than trans-stilbene in competitive epoxidations. (see Figure 7.20). " ... 

These results, as well as rate studies " and kinetic isotope effects ", support a concerted, 5ptra-structured oxenoid-type transition state for the CH oxidations". The original oxygen-rebound mechanism has been discounted (see the computational work in Section I.D). Recently, however, the stepwise radical mechanism was revived in terms of the so-called molecule-induced homolysis , but such radical-type reactivity was severely criticized on the basis of experimental" and theoretical grounds. 

F. Ogliaro, N. Harris, S. Cohen, M. Filatov, S. R de Visser, and S. Shaik, A Model Rebound Mechanism of Hydroxylation by Cytochrome P450. Stepwise and Effectively Concerted Pathways, and Their Reactivity Patterns, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000,122, 8977. Calculations explain puzzling aspects of cytochrome P450 hydroxylation reactions in terms of two, different, reactive spin states of the enzyme. 

Fig. 10 Oxygen-rebound mechanism for P-450-catalyzed hydroxylation (reproduced from reference 393 with the permission of the American Chemical Society).

Jackson, M. A., Tiedje, J. M., and Averill, B. A. (1991). Evidence for an NO-rebound mechanism for production of N2O from nitrite by the copper-containing nitrite reductase from Achromobacter cyclolastes. FEBS Lett. 291, 41-44. 

Whereas several transient species have been observed for dioxygen activation by MMOH, no intermediates were found by rapid-mixing spectroscopic methods for the actual methane hydroxylation step. Mechanistic probes, i.e. certain non-natural substrates that are transformed into rearranged products only if the reaction proceeds via a specific intermediate such as a radical or a cation, give ambivalent results Some studies show that products according to a pathway via cationic intermediates are obtained in sMMO hydroxylations and at least one study suggests the presence of a radical intermediate [40]. Computational analyses of the reaction of MMOHq with methane suggest a so-called radical recoil/rebound mechanism in which MMOHq... 

Scheme 3.22 Proposed rebound mechanism shown forthe hydroxylation of cyclohexene la [109].

Gonzalez MM, Valatx JL. Involvement of stress in the sleep rebound mechanism induced by sleep deprivation in the rat use of alpha-helical CRH (9-41). Behav... 

Repulsive surfaces are associated with the backward scattering of a rebound mechanism, in which A collides with BC in a head-on collision and AB rebounds backwards. 

The rebound mechanism showing backward scattering and small cross sections is typified by... 

The back reaction will have the exact reverse characteristics. The activated complex will lie in the exit valley, and reaction will be enhanced by high vibrational energy. There will be high translational energy in the products, the cross section will be small, and the molecular beam contour diagram will show predominantly backward scattering, typical of a rebound mechanism. 

This means that vibrational energy favours reaction, from which it can be inferred that the activated complex lies in the exit valley, and that there is a late barrier. This is a rebound mechanism where the reactants have to get very close together before reaction can occur. 

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