Rebound mechanism, hydroxylation

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. 

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.

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).

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].

Schoneboom JC, S Cohen, H Lin, S Shaik, W Thiel (2004) Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical investigation of the mechanism of C-H hydroxylation of camphor by cytochrome P450(cam) Theory supports a two-state rebound mechanism. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 (12) 4017-4034... 

The radical rebound mechanism has been proposed and proved in several cases in reaction of hydroxylation catalyzed by cytochrome 450 and methane monooxigenase (Section 3.2)... 

Thus, it is becoming increasingly evident that the rebound mechanism is the most probable mechanism of the hydroxylation. Nevertheless, direct proof of occurrence of the ferryl active intermediate is as yet incomplete. Above mentioned the masked radical rebound mechanism can not be excluded. 

Filatov, M., Harris, N., and Shaik, S. (1999) On the "rebound" mechanism of alkane hydroxylation by cytochrome P450 electronic structure of the intermediate and the electron transfer character in the rebound step. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 38, 3510-3512. 

Scheme 18.3b illustrates a recent mechanistic proposal. This bears similarities to the oxygen-rebound mechanism, proposed for the hydroxylation of alkanes by high-valent transition metal species in biomimetic and enzymatic systems [31, 33, 34]. The generation of the active species and other implications of the mechanism are discussed in detail in Section 18.11.3. 

Oxygen atom from Cpd I is inserted into the C-H bond of saturated hydrocarbons (Scheme la) by means of hydrogen atom abstraction followed by recombination of the transient hydroxyl with the carbon radical [the so-called oxygen rebound mechanism proposed by Groves in 1976 (8, 10)]. Another possibility can be the concerted oxygen insertion into the C-H bond. Both pathways are rationalized by the two-state mechanism developed by Shaik et al. (6, 9), which describes different reactivities... 

Shaik and co-workers have carried out a number studies using density functional theory based quantum chemical and QM/MM techniques to examine various aspects of the mechanism of alkane hydroxylation by cytochrome P450.178 181 These studies included, for example, calculation of the potential energy surface for the so-called rebound mechanism with methane as a substrate for two spin states, the high spin (HS) quartet state and low spin (LS) doublet state. In the rebound mechanism, Compound I initially abstracts a... 

Finally, Fig. 4.88 presents two examples of such radical-type mechanisms catalyzed by cytochromes P450 and leading to aliphatic hydroxylation, through the so-called oxygen-rebound mechanism, and epoxidation, respectively. 

The high degree of electrophilicity of the oxene intermediate would facilitate hydrogen-atom abstraction from substrates such as the methyl group of N,N-dimethylaniline to generate a "crypto-hydroxyl metal center able to undergo the well-known "oxygen rebound mechanism.22... 

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