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Nakamura A, Latif MA, Deck PA, Castagnoli N, Tanko JM. Evidence for a Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mechanism in a Biomimetic System for Monoamine Oxidase B Catalysis. Chemistry 2020; 26:823-829. [PMID: 31658386 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Mechanistic studies with 5-ethyl-3-methyllumiflavinium (Fl+ ) perchlorate, a biomimetic model for flavoenzyme monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) catalysis, and the tertiary, allyl amine 1-methyl-4-(1-methyl-1 H-pyrrol-2-yl)-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MMTP) reveal that proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) may be an important pathway for MAO catalysis. The first step involves a single-electron transfer (SET) leading to the free radicals Fl. and MMTP. , the latter produced by deprotonation of the initially formed and highly acidic MMTP.+ . Molecular oxygen (O2 ) is found to play a hitherto unrecognized role in the early steps of the oxidation. MMTP and several structurally similar tertiary amines are the only tertiary amines oxidized by MAO, and their structural/electronic properties provide the key to understanding this behavior. A general hypothesis about the role of SET in MAO catalysis, and the recognition that PCET occurs with appropriately substituted substrates is presented.
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- Akiko Nakamura
- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24060, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24060, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24060, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24060, USA
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Yamamoto K, Takatsuka K. Charge separation and successive reconfigurations of electronic and protonic states in a water-splitting catalytic cycle with the Mn4CaO5 cluster. On the mechanism of water splitting in PSII. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:7912-7934. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp00443j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Charge separation, reloading of electrons and protons, and O2 generation in a catalytic cycle for water splitting with Mn4CaO5 in PSII.
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- Kentaro Yamamoto
- Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry
- Kyoto University
- Kyoto 606-8103
- Japan
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- Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry
- Kyoto University
- Kyoto 606-8103
- Japan
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Gao S, Liu Y, Shao Y, Jiang D, Duan Q. Iron carbonyl compounds with aromatic dithiolate bridges as organometallic mimics of [FeFe] hydrogenases. Coord Chem Rev 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2019.213081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Yardeni G, Meyerstein D, Kats L, Cohen H, Zilbermann I, Maimon E. On the reactions of methyl radicals with nitrilotris(methylenephosphonic-acid) complexes in aqueous solutions. J COORD CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/00958972.2019.1698736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Guy Yardeni
- Chemistry Department, Nuclear Research Centre Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Chemical Sciences Department, The Radical Research Centre and the Schlesinger Family Center for Compact Accelerators, Radiation Sources and Applications, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
- Chemistry Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Chemistry Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Chemical Sciences Department, The Radical Research Centre and the Schlesinger Family Center for Compact Accelerators, Radiation Sources and Applications, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
- Chemistry Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Chemistry Department, Nuclear Research Centre Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Chemistry Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Chemistry Department, Nuclear Research Centre Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Chemistry Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Wild U, Hübner O, Himmel H. Redox-Active Guanidines in Proton-Coupled Electron-Transfer Reactions: Real Alternatives to Benzoquinones? Chemistry 2019; 25:15988-15992. [PMID: 31535741 PMCID: PMC7065378 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201903438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Guanidino-functionalized aromatics (GFAs) are readily available, stable organic redox-active compounds. In this work we apply one particular GFA compound, 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(tetramethylguanidino)benzene, in its oxidized form in a variety of oxidation/oxidative coupling reactions to demonstrate the scope of its proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactivity. Addition of an excess of acid boosts its oxidation power, enabling the oxidative coupling of substrates with redox potentials of at least +0.77 V vs. Fc+ /Fc. The green recyclability by catalytic re-oxidation with dioxygen is also shown. Finally, a direct comparison indicates that GFAs are real alternatives to toxic halo- or cyano-substituted benzoquinones.
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- Ute Wild
- Anorganisch-Chemisches InstitutRuprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergIm Neuenheimer Feld 27069120HeidelbergGermany
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- Anorganisch-Chemisches InstitutRuprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergIm Neuenheimer Feld 27069120HeidelbergGermany
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- Anorganisch-Chemisches InstitutRuprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergIm Neuenheimer Feld 27069120HeidelbergGermany
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Tanaka H, Hitaoka S, Umehara K, Yoshizawa K, Kuwata S. Mechanistic Study on Catalytic Disproportionation of Hydrazine by a Protic Pincer‐Type Iron Complex through Proton‐Coupled Electron Transfer. Eur J Inorg Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201901135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Hiromasa Tanaka
- School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Daido University Minami-ku Nagoya 457‐8530 Japan
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University Nishi-ku Fukuoka 819‐0395 Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering School of Materials and Chemical Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology 2‐12‐1 E4‐1 O‐Okayama Meguro‐ku Tokyo 152‐8552 Japan
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University Nishi-ku Fukuoka 819‐0395 Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering School of Materials and Chemical Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology 2‐12‐1 E4‐1 O‐Okayama Meguro‐ku Tokyo 152‐8552 Japan
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Guo M, Wu H, Yang M, Luo Z. Acetone Dimer Hydrogenation under Vacuum Ultraviolet: An Intracluster Trimolecular Dissociation Mechanism. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:10739-10745. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b08833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Mengdi Guo
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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Mallick S, Cao L, Chen X, Zhou J, Qin Y, Wang GY, Wu YY, Meng M, Zhu GY, Tan YN, Cheng T, Liu CY. Mediation of Electron Transfer by Quadrupolar Interactions: The Constitutional, Electronic, and Energetic Complementarities in Supramolecular Chemistry. iScience 2019; 22:269-287. [PMID: 31805432 PMCID: PMC6909048 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Studies of intermolecular interactions enhance our knowledge of chemistry across molecular and supramolecular levels. Here, we show that host-guest quadrupolar interaction has a profound influence on the molecular system. With covalently bonded dimolybdenum complex units as the electron donor (D) and acceptor (A) and a thienylene group (C4H2S) as the bridge (B), the mixed-valence D-B-A complexes are shaped with clefts in the middle of the molecule. Interestingly, in aromatic solvents, the D-A electronic coupling constants (Hab) and electron transfer rates (ket) are dramatically reduced. Theoretical computations indicate that an aromatic molecule is encapsulated in the cleft of the D-B-A array; quadrupole-quadrupole interaction between the guest molecule and the C4H2S bridge evokes a charge redistribution, which increases the HOMO-LUMO energy gap, intervening in the through-bond electron transfer. These results demonstrate that a supramolecular system is unified underlying the characteristics of the assembled molecules through constitutional, electronic, and energetic complementarities.
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- Suman Mallick
- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Jinan University, 601 Huang-Pu Avenue West, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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Larsson S. Correlations between Spectra and Resistivity in Transition Metal Oxides. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:9449-9455. [PMID: 31544460 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b08132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A comparison between photoconductivity spectra and resistivity in two transition metal oxides, La2-xSrxCuO4 and La1-xSrxVO3, is presented. The resistivities ρ(T) for x < 0.05 in the cuprate and x < 0.28 in the vanadate are typical for single electron transfer. For T > 100 K, ρ(T) - ρ(0) ∼ T3/2. For higher dopings (x) the cuprate is a superconductor (x < 0.25) and the vanadate an ordinary metal. This tallies with the number of oxidation states and their spins when the electrons transfer locally. The insulator-metal transition and the vanishing of Cooper pairs are discussed in the conclusion.
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- Sven Larsson
- Department of Chemistry , Chalmers University of Technology , Göteborg SE-41296 , Sweden
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Silberbush O, Engel M, Sivron I, Roy S, Ashkenasy N. Self-Assembled Peptide Nanotube Films with High Proton Conductivity. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:9882-9888. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b07555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Ohad Silberbush
- Department of Materials Engineering and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Materials Engineering and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Materials Engineering and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Materials Engineering and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Materials Engineering and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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Yee EF, Dzikovski B, Crane BR. Tuning Radical Relay Residues by Proton Management Rescues Protein Electron Hopping. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:17571-17587. [PMID: 31603693 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b05715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Transient tyrosine and tryptophan radicals play key roles in the electron transfer (ET) reactions of photosystem (PS) II, ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), photolyase, and many other proteins. However, Tyr and Trp are not functionally interchangeable, and the factors controlling their reactivity are often unclear. Cytochrome c peroxidase (CcP) employs a Trp191•+ radical to oxidize reduced cytochrome c (Cc). Although a Tyr191 replacement also forms a stable radical, it does not support rapid ET from Cc. Here we probe the redox properties of CcP Y191 by non-natural amino acid substitution, altering the ET driving force and manipulating the protic environment of Y191. Higher potential fluorotyrosine residues increase ET rates marginally, but only addition of a hydrogen bond donor to Tyr191• (via Leu232His or Glu) substantially alters activity by increasing the ET rate by nearly 30-fold. ESR and ESEEM spectroscopies, crystallography, and pH-dependent ET kinetics provide strong evidence for hydrogen bond formation to Y191• by His232/Glu232. Rate measurements and rapid freeze quench ESR spectroscopy further reveal differences in radical propagation and Cc oxidation that support an increased Y191• formal potential of ∼200 mV in the presence of E232. Hence, Y191 inactivity results from a potential drop owing to Y191•+ deprotonation. Incorporation of a well-positioned base to accept and donate back a hydrogen bond upshifts the Tyr• potential into a range where it can effectively oxidize Cc. These findings have implications for the YZ/YD radicals of PS II, hole-hopping in RNR and cryptochrome, and engineering proteins for long-range ET reactions.
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- Estella F Yee
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States.,National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technologies (ACERT) , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14850 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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Mao Y, Montoya-Castillo A, Markland TE. Accurate and efficient DFT-based diabatization for hole and electron transfer using absolutely localized molecular orbitals. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:164114. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5125275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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- Yuezhi Mao
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Qiu W, Li Z, Chen K, Li C, Liu J, Zhang W. Stabilizing Low-Coordinated O Ions To Operate Cationic and Anionic Redox Chemistry of Li-Ion Battery Materials. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:37768-37778. [PMID: 31553152 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b13463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Conventional electrochemical processes are mainly operated by cationic redox chemistry. Developing cumulative cationic and anionic redox chemistry offers a transformative approach to increase the energy storage capacity of Li-ion batteries and active sites of catalysts. However, realizing the reversible anionic redox reaction to increase the specific capacity in Li-ion battery materials is a large challenge because uncontrollable anion-anion combination and gas evolutions cause poor cyclic performance. Here, we use open-framework metal-fluorides (FeF3·0.33H2O) to demonstrate cumulative cationic and anionic redox reactions to be realized through O substitution. Experimental studies verified that O substitution could form reductive O ions, and stabilizing this reductive low-coordinated O by p-d orbital hybridization and hydrogen-transfer-mediated O-H bond formation plays an important role in operating anionic electrochemistry. O substitution also exhibits an improved cyclic performance beyond the insertion-reaction capacity (150 mA h/g) of FeF3·0.33H2O (225 and 300 mA h/g). Theoretical calculations show that FeF2.67O0.33·0.33H2O exhibits a 50% higher insertion-reaction capacity (225 mA h/g) than FeF3·0.33H2O (150 mA h/g) before structural collapse, which is attributed to cumulative cationic (Fe3+ ↔ Fe2+) and anionic (O- ↔ O2-) redox reactions based on our electronic structure analysis. The present study opens a new avenue to develop cationic and anionic electrochemistry to improve the storage capacity and cyclic performance through stabilizing low-coordinated O ions.
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- Wujie Qiu
- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 1295 Dingxi Road , Shanghai 200050 , China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 1295 Dingxi Road , Shanghai 200050 , China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 1295 Dingxi Road , Shanghai 200050 , China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 1295 Dingxi Road , Shanghai 200050 , China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 1295 Dingxi Road , Shanghai 200050 , China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 1295 Dingxi Road , Shanghai 200050 , China
- Department of Physics and Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science & Technology , Southern University of Science and Technology , Shenzhen 518055 , China
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Solar-driven chemistry: towards new catalytic solutions for a sustainable world. RENDICONTI LINCEI. SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s12210-019-00836-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lacombat F, Espagne A, Dozova N, Plaza P, Müller P, Brettel K, Franz-Badur S, Essen LO. Ultrafast Oxidation of a Tyrosine by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Promotes Light Activation of an Animal-like Cryptochrome. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:13394-13409. [PMID: 31368699 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The animal-like cryptochrome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (CraCRY) is a recently discovered photoreceptor that controls the transcriptional profile and sexual life cycle of this alga by both blue and red light. CraCRY has the uncommon feature of efficient formation and longevity of the semireduced neutral form of its FAD cofactor upon blue light illumination. Tyrosine Y373 plays a crucial role by elongating , as fourth member, the electron transfer (ET) chain found in most other cryptochromes and DNA photolyases, which comprises a conserved tryptophan triad. Here, we report the full mechanism of light-induced FADH• formation in CraCRY using transient absorption spectroscopy from hundreds of femtoseconds to seconds. Electron transfer starts from ultrafast reduction of excited FAD to FAD•- by the proximal tryptophan (0.4 ps) and is followed by delocalized migration of the produced WH•+ radical along the tryptophan triad (∼4 and ∼50 ps). Oxidation of Y373 by coupled ET to WH•+ and deprotonation then proceeds in ∼800 ps, without any significant kinetic isotope effect, nor a pH effect between pH 6.5 and 9.0. The FAD•-/Y373• pair is formed with high quantum yield (∼60%); its intrinsic decay by recombination is slow (∼50 ms), favoring reduction of Y373• by extrinsic agents and protonation of FAD•- to form the long-lived, red-light absorbing FADH• species. Possible mechanisms of tyrosine oxidation by ultrafast proton-coupled ET in CraCRY, a process about 40 times faster than the archetypal tyrosine-Z oxidation in photosystem II, are discussed in detail.
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- Fabien Lacombat
- PASTEUR, Département de chimie , École normale supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS , 75005 Paris , France
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- PASTEUR, Département de chimie , École normale supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS , 75005 Paris , France
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- PASTEUR, Département de chimie , École normale supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS , 75005 Paris , France
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- PASTEUR, Département de chimie , École normale supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, CNRS , 75005 Paris , France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS , Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay , 91198 , Gif-sur-Yvette cedex , France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS , Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay , 91198 , Gif-sur-Yvette cedex , France
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Synthetic Microbiology , Philipps University , 35032 Marburg , Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Synthetic Microbiology , Philipps University , 35032 Marburg , Germany
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Odella E, Wadsworth BL, Mora SJ, Goings JJ, Huynh MT, Gust D, Moore TA, Moore GF, Hammes-Schiffer S, Moore AL. Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Drives Long-Range Proton Translocation in Bioinspired Systems. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:14057-14061. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Emmanuel Odella
- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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Hanazono Y, Takeda K, Miki K. Characterization of perdeuterated high-potential iron-sulfur protein with high-resolution X-ray crystallography. Proteins 2019; 88:251-259. [PMID: 31365157 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Revised: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 07/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Perdeuteration in neutron crystallography is an effective method for determining the positions of hydrogen atoms in proteins. However, there is shortage of evidence that the high-resolution details of perdeuterated proteins are consistent with those of the nondeuterated proteins. In this study, we determined the X-ray structure of perdeuterated high-potential iron-sulfur protein (HiPIP) at a high resolution of 0.85 å resolution. The comparison of the nondeuterated and perdeuterated structures of HiPIP revealed slight differences between the two structures. The spectroscopic and spectroelectrochemical studies also showed that perdeuterated HiPIP has approximately the same characteristics as nondeuterated HiPIP. These results further emphasize the suitability of using perdeuterated proteins in the high-resolution neutron crystallography.
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- Yuya Hanazono
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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Tazhigulov RN, Gayvert JR, Wei M, Bravaya KB. eMap: A Web Application for Identifying and Visualizing Electron or Hole Hopping Pathways in Proteins. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:6946-6951. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b04816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ruslan N. Tazhigulov
- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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Zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance of chemically exchanging systems. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3002. [PMID: 31278303 PMCID: PMC6611813 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10787-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Zero- to ultralow-field (ZULF) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an emerging tool for precision chemical analysis. In this work, we study dynamic processes and investigate the influence of chemical exchange on ZULF NMR J-spectra. We develop a computational approach that allows quantitative calculation of J-spectra in the presence of chemical exchange and apply it to study aqueous solutions of [15N]ammonium (15N\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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Zhong F, Pletneva EV. Mechanistic Studies of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in a Calorimetry Cell. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:9773-9777. [PMID: 31177776 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Mechanistic studies of proton-coupled electron-transfer (PCET) reactions in proteins are complicated by the challenge of following proton transfer (PT) in these large molecules. Herein we describe the use of isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) to establish proton involvement in protein redox reactions and the identity of PT sites. We validate this approach with three variants of a heme protein cytochrome c (cyt c) and show that the method yields a wealth of thermodynamic information that is important for characterizing PCET reactions, including reduction potentials, redox-dependent p Ka values, and reaction enthalpies for both electron-transfer (ET) and PT steps. We anticipate that this facile and label-free ITC approach will find widespread applications in studies of other redox proteins and enhance our knowledge of PCET reaction mechanisms.
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- Fangfang Zhong
- Department of Chemistry , Dartmouth College , Hanover , New Hampshire 03755 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Dartmouth College , Hanover , New Hampshire 03755 , United States
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Tkach I, Bejenke I, Hecker F, Kehl A, Kasanmascheff M, Gromov I, Prisecaru I, Höfer P, Hiller M, Bennati M. 1H high field electron-nuclear double resonance spectroscopy at 263 GHz/9.4 T. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2019; 303:17-27. [PMID: 30991287 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2019.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 03/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We present and discuss the performance of 1H electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) at 263 GHz/9.4 T by employing a prototype, commercial quasi optical spectrometer. Basic instrumental features of the setup are described alongside a comprehensive characterization of the new ENDOR probe head design. The performance of three different ENDOR pulse sequences (Davies, Mims and CP-ENDOR) is evaluated using the 1H BDPA radical. A key feature of 263 GHz spectroscopy - the increase in orientation selectivity in comparison with 94 GHz experiments - is discussed in detail. For this purpose, the resolution of 1H ENDOR spectra at 263 GHz is verified using a representative protein sample containing approximately 15 picomoles of a tyrosyl radical. Davies ENDOR spectra recorded at 5 K reveal previously obscured spectral features, which are interpreted by spectral simulations aided by DFT calculations. Our analysis shows that seven internal proton couplings are detectable for this specific radical if sufficient orientation selectivity is achieved. The results prove the fidelity of 263 GHz experiments in reporting orientation-selected 1H ENDOR spectra and demonstrate that new significant information can be uncovered in complex molecular systems, owing to the enhanced resolution combined with high absolute sensitivity and no compromise in acquisition time.
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- Igor Tkach
- Research Group EPR Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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- Research Group EPR Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Group EPR Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Group EPR Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Department of Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 2, Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Group EPR Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Bruker Biospin GmbH, Silberstreifen 4, 76287 Rheinstetten, Germany
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- Bruker Biospin GmbH, Silberstreifen 4, 76287 Rheinstetten, Germany
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- Bruker Biospin GmbH, Silberstreifen 4, 76287 Rheinstetten, Germany
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- Research Group EPR Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Group EPR Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Department of Chemistry, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 2, Göttingen, Germany.
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Yamamoto K, Takatsuka K. On the Elementary Chemical Mechanisms of Unidirectional Proton Transfers: A Nonadiabatic Electron-Wavepacket Dynamics Study. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:4125-4138. [PMID: 30977655 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b01178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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We propose a set of chemical reaction mechanisms of unidirectional proton transfers, which may possibly work as an elementary process in chemical and biological systems. Being theoretically derived based on our series of studies on charge separation dynamics in water splitting by Mn oxides, the present mechanisms have been constructed after careful exploration over the accumulated biological studies on cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) and bacteriorhodopsin. In particular, we have focused on the biochemical findings in the literature that unidirectional transfers of approximately two protons are driven by one electron passage through the reaction center (binuclear center) in CcO, whereas no such dissipative electron transfer is believed to be demanded in the proton transport in bacteriorhodopsin. The proposed basic mechanisms of unidirectional proton transfers are further reduced to two elementary dynamical processes, namely, what we call the coupled proton and electron-wavepacket transfer (CPEWT) and the inverse CPEWT. To show that the proposed mechanisms can indeed be materialized in a molecular level, we construct model systems with possible molecules that are rather familiar in biological chemistry, for which we perform the ab initio calculations of full-dimensional nonadiabatic electron-wavepacket dynamics coupled with all nuclear motions including proton transfers.
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- Kentaro Yamamoto
- Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry , Kyoto University , Sakyou-ku, Kyoto 606-8103 , Japan
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- Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry , Kyoto University , Sakyou-ku, Kyoto 606-8103 , Japan
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Efficient electron transfer across hydrogen bond interfaces by proton-coupled and -uncoupled pathways. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1531. [PMID: 30948718 PMCID: PMC6449364 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09392-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Thermal electron transfer through hydrogen bonds remains largely unexplored. Here we report the study of electron transfer through amide-amide hydrogen bonded interfaces in mixed-valence complexes with covalently bonded Mo2 units as the electron donor and acceptor. The rate constants for electron transfer through the dual hydrogen bonds across a distance of 12.5 Å are on the order of ∼ 1010 s-1, as determined by optical analysis based on Marcus-Hush theory and simulation of ν(NH) vibrational band broadening, with the electron transfer efficiencies comparable to that of π conjugated bridges. This work demonstrates that electron transfer across a hydrogen bond may proceed via the known proton-coupled pathway, as well as an overlooked proton-uncoupled pathway that does not involve proton transfer. A mechanistic switch between the two pathways can be achieved by manipulation of the strengths of electronic coupling and hydrogen bonding. The knowledge of the non-proton coupled pathway has shed light on charge and energy transport in biological systems.
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Wagner C, Hübner O, Kaifer E, Himmel HJ. Probing the Proton-Coupled Electron-Transfer (PCET) Reactivity of a Cross-Conjugated Cruciform Chromophore by Redox-State-Dependent Fluorescence. Chemistry 2019; 25:3781-3785. [PMID: 30688382 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201900268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions are of great importance in synthetic chemistry and in biology, but the acquisition of kinetic information for these reactions is often difficult. Herein, we report the synthesis of a new PCET reagent, showing redox-state dependent fluorescence, by merging the concept of cross-conjugated cruciform chromophores with the strategy of imposing redox activity and Brønsted basicity to aromatic compounds by substitution with guanidino groups. The compound is isolated and characterized in all stable states-reduced, twofold and fourfold protonated and twofold oxidized-and then applied in PCET reactions by using its redox-state dependent fluorescence signal for kinetic measurements.
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- Conrad Wagner
- Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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Mandal A, Sandoval C. JS, Shakib FA, Huo P. Quasi-Diabatic Propagation Scheme for Direct Simulation of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:2470-2482. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b00077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Arkajit Mandal
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 120 Trustee Road, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 120 Trustee Road, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 120 Trustee Road, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 120 Trustee Road, Rochester, New York 14627, United States
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Sun X, Zhou S, Yue L, Schlangen M, Schwarz H. Thermal Activation of CH 4 and H 2 as Mediated by the Ruthenium Oxide Cluster Ions [RuO x ] + (x=1-3): On the Influence of Oxidation States. Chemistry 2019; 25:3550-3559. [PMID: 30681209 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201806187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Thermal gas-phase reactions of the ruthenium-oxide clusters [RuOx ]+ (x=1-3) with methane and dihydrogen have been explored by using FT-ICR mass spectrometry complemented by high-level quantum chemical calculations. For methane activation, as compared to the previously studied [RuO]+ /CH4 couple, the higher oxidized Ru systems give rise to completely different product distributions. [RuO2 ]+ brings about the generations of [Ru,O,C,H2 ]+ /H2 O, [Ru,O,C]+ /H2 /H2 O, and [Ru,O,H2 ]+ /CH2 O, whereas [RuO3 ]+ exhibits a higher selectivity and efficiency in producing formaldehyde and syngas (CO+H2 ). Regarding the reactions with H2 , as compared to CH4 , both [RuO]+ and [RuO2 ]+ react similarly inefficiently with oxygen-atom transfer being the main reaction channel; in contrast, [RuO3 ]+ is inert toward dihydrogen. Theoretical analysis reveals that the reduction of the metal center drives the overall oxidation of methane, whereas the back-bonding orbital interactions between the cluster ions and dihydrogen control the H-H bond activation. Furthermore, the reactivity patterns of [RuOx ]+ (x=1-3) with CH4 and H2 have been compared with the previously reported results of Group 8 analogues [OsOx ]+ /CH4 /H2 (x=1-3) and the [FeO]+ /H2 system. The electronic origins for their distinctly different reaction behaviors have been addressed.
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- Xiaoyan Sun
- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany.,Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of, Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, P. R. China
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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Sirohiwal A, Neese F, Pantazis DA. Microsolvation of the Redox-Active Tyrosine-D in Photosystem II: Correlation of Energetics with EPR Spectroscopy and Oxidation-Induced Proton Transfer. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:3217-3231. [PMID: 30666866 PMCID: PMC6728127 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Photosystem II (PSII) of oxygenic photosynthesis captures sunlight to drive the catalytic oxidation of water and the reduction of plastoquinone. Among the several redox-active cofactors that participate in intricate electron transfer pathways there are two tyrosine residues, YZ and YD. They are situated in symmetry-related electron transfer branches but have different environments and play distinct roles. YZ is the immediate oxidant of the oxygen-evolving Mn4CaO5 cluster, whereas YD serves regulatory and protective functions. The protonation states and hydrogen-bond network in the environment of YD remain debated, while the role of microsolvation in stabilizing different redox states of YD and facilitating oxidation or mediating deprotonation, as well the fate of the phenolic proton, is unclear. Here we present detailed structural models of YD and its environment using large-scale quantum mechanical models and all-atom molecular dynamics of a complete PSII monomer. The energetics of water distribution within a hydrophobic cavity adjacent to YD are shown to correlate directly with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) parameters such as the tyrosyl g-tensor, allowing us to map the correspondence between specific structural models and available experimental observations. EPR spectra obtained under different conditions are explained with respect to the mode of interaction of the proximal water with the tyrosyl radical and the position of the phenolic proton within the cavity. Our results revise previous models of the energetics and build a detailed view of the role of confined water in the oxidation and deprotonation of YD. Finally, the model of microsolvation developed in the present work rationalizes in a straightforward way the biphasic oxidation kinetics of YD, offering new structural insights regarding the function of the radical in biological photosynthesis.
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- Abhishek Sirohiwal
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung , Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1 , 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr , Germany
- Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie , Ruhr-Universität Bochum , 44780 Bochum , Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung , Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1 , 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr , Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung , Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1 , 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr , Germany
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Melander MM, Kuisma MJ, Christensen TEK, Honkala K. Grand-canonical approach to density functional theory of electrocatalytic systems: Thermodynamics of solid-liquid interfaces at constant ion and electrode potentials. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:041706. [PMID: 30709274 DOI: 10.1063/1.5047829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Properties of solid-liquid interfaces are of immense importance for electrocatalytic and electrochemical systems, but modeling such interfaces at the atomic level presents a serious challenge and approaches beyond standard methodologies are needed. An atomistic computational scheme needs to treat at least part of the system quantum mechanically to describe adsorption and reactions, while the entire system is in thermal equilibrium. The experimentally relevant macroscopic control variables are temperature, electrode potential, and the choice of the solvent and ions, and these need to be explicitly included in the computational model as well; this calls for a thermodynamic ensemble with fixed ion and electrode potentials. In this work, a general framework within density functional theory (DFT) with fixed electron and ion chemical potentials in the grand canonical (GC) ensemble is established for modeling electrocatalytic and electrochemical interfaces. Starting from a fully quantum mechanical description of multi-component GC-DFT for nuclei and electrons, a systematic coarse-graining is employed to establish various computational schemes including (i) the combination of classical and electronic DFTs within the GC ensemble and (ii) on the simplest level a chemically and physically sound way to obtain various (modified) Poisson-Boltzmann (mPB) implicit solvent models. The detailed and rigorous derivation clearly establishes which approximations are needed for coarse-graining as well as highlights which details and interactions are omitted in vein of computational feasibility. The transparent approximations also allow removing some of the constraints and coarse-graining if needed. We implement various mPB models within a linear dielectric continuum in the GPAW code and test their capabilities to model capacitance of electrochemical interfaces as well as study different approaches for modeling partly periodic charged systems. Our rigorous and well-defined DFT coarse-graining scheme to continuum electrolytes highlights the inadequacy of current linear dielectric models for treating properties of the electrochemical interface.
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- Marko M Melander
- Nanoscience Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YN), FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Nanoscience Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YN), FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Nanoscience Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YN), FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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Zhou S, Sun X, Yue L, Schlangen M, Schwarz H. Tuning the Reactivities of the Heteronuclear [Al
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1, 2) Cluster Oxides towards Methane by Varying the Composition of the Metal Centers. Chemistry 2019; 25:2967-2971. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Shaodong Zhou
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology; College of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Zhejiang University; 310027 Hangzhou P. R. China
- Institut für Chemie; Technische Universität Berlin; Straße des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für Chemie; Technische Universität Berlin; Straße des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für Chemie; Technische Universität Berlin; Straße des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für Chemie; Technische Universität Berlin; Straße des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für Chemie; Technische Universität Berlin; Straße des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Germany
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Short-range electron-transfer (ET) reactions in biological systems are usually ultrafast, having transfer rates comparable to or even faster than corresponding environmental fluctuations, and often display nonexponential behaviors. To understand these nonequilibrium ET dynamics, we carried out detailed theoretical analyses based on the Sumi-Marcus model. It is shown that the ET dynamics is largely determined by the relative time scales of the ET reaction and its surrounding motions. Significantly, different environmental fluctuations can produce a variety of apparent ET dynamics even with the same driving force, Δ Go, and reorganization energy, λ. We applied our analyses to an ultrafast ET process in DNA repair by (6-4) photolyase and directly obtained the inner and outer reorganization energies (λi and λo) as well as the free energy Δ Go of various mutants, providing mechanical insight into ultrafast short-range ET reactions in proteins.
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- Yangyi Lu
- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Programs of Biophysics, Chemical Physics, and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Programs of Biophysics, Chemical Physics, and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
- Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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The corpus of electron transfer (ET) theory provides considerable power to describe the kinetics and dynamics of electron flow at the nanoscale. How is it, then, that nucleic acid (NA) ET continues to surprise, while protein-mediated ET is relatively free of mechanistic bombshells? I suggest that this difference originates in the distinct electronic energy landscapes for the two classes of reactions. In proteins, the donor/acceptor-to-bridge energy gap is typically several-fold larger than in NAs. NA ET can access tunneling, hopping, and resonant transport among the bases, and fluctuations can enable switching among mechanisms; protein ET is restricted to tunneling among redox active cofactors and, under strongly oxidizing conditions, a few privileged amino acid side chains. This review aims to provide conceptual unity to DNA and protein ET reaction mechanisms. The establishment of a unified mechanistic framework enabled the successful design of NA experiments that switch electronic coherence effects on and off for ET processes on a length scale of multiple nanometers and promises to provide inroads to directing and detecting charge flow in soft-wet matter.
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- David N Beratan
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA; .,Department of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Chai J, Zheng Z, Pan H, Zhang S, Lakshmi KV, Sun YY. Significance of hydrogen bonding networks in the proton-coupled electron transfer reactions of photosystem II from a quantum-mechanics perspective. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:8721-8728. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00868c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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All quantum-mechanical calculations provide insights into the effect of the hydrogen bonding network on the proton-coupled electron transfer at YZ and YD in photosystem II.
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- Jun Chai
- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure
- Shanghai Institute of Ceramics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shanghai 201899
- China
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- National Key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics
- Institute of Fluid Physics
- China Academy of Engineering Physics
- Mianyang 621900
- China
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- Joint Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education
- Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering
- University of Macau
- Taipa
- China
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- Department of Physics
- Applied Physics, and Astronomy
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Troy
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and The Baruch ’60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Troy
- USA
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure
- Shanghai Institute of Ceramics
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shanghai 201899
- China
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Yuly JL, Lubner CE, Zhang P, Beratan DN, Peters JW. Electron bifurcation: progress and grand challenges. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:11823-11832. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cc05611d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Electron bifurcation moves electrons from a two-electron donor to reduce two spatially separated one-electron acceptors.
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- Department of Chemistry
- Duke University
- Durham
- USA
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- Department of Physics
- Duke University
- Durham
- USA
- Department of Chemistry
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry
- Washington State University
- Pullman
- USA
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Zhong W, Wu L, Jiang W, Li Y, Mookan N, Liu X. Proton-coupled electron transfer in the reduction of diiron hexacarbonyl complexes and its enhancement on the electrocatalytic reduction of protons by a pendant basic group. Dalton Trans 2019; 48:13711-13718. [DOI: 10.1039/c9dt02058f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The pendant basic groups in a diiron complex acted as proton relay to ease the kinetic resistance in proton reduction and enhance proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET).
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- Wei Zhong
- College of Biological
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering
- Jiaxing University
- Jiaxing 314001
- China
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- College of Biological
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering
- Jiaxing University
- Jiaxing 314001
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Catalysis of Higher Education Institutes of Sichuan
- Sichuan University of Science & Engineering
- Zigong
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Catalysis of Higher Education Institutes of Sichuan
- Sichuan University of Science & Engineering
- Zigong
- China
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- College of Biological
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering
- Jiaxing University
- Jiaxing 314001
- China
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- College of Biological
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering
- Jiaxing University
- Jiaxing 314001
- China
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Pannwitz A, Wenger OS. Recent advances in bioinspired proton-coupled electron transfer. Dalton Trans 2019; 48:5861-5868. [DOI: 10.1039/c8dt04373f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Fundamental aspects of PCET continue to attract attention. Understanding this reaction type is desirable for small-molecule activation and solar energy conversion.
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- Andrea Pannwitz
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Basel
- 4056 Basel
- Switzerland
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Mathew R, Kayal S, Yapamanu AL. Excited state structural dynamics of 4-cyano-4′-hydroxystilbene: deciphering the signatures of proton-coupled electron transfer using ultrafast Raman loss spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:22409-22419. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp02923k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The photo-initiated proton-coupled electron transfer process in the 4-cyano-4′-hydroxystilbene–tert-butylamine adduct strongly affects the excited-state structural dynamics of CHSB.
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- Reshma Mathew
- School of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram
- Thiruvananthapuram 695551
- India
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Science
- Bangalore 560012
- India
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Fréneau M, Lefebvre C, Gómez Fernández MA, Richard C, Hoffmann N. Photochemical reactivity of phenyl (methyl-tetrazolyl) ketone – hydrogen atom transfer vs. electron transfer. NEW J CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj03061a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A novel photochemical electron transfer step is observed when a heteroaromatic substituent is present in an aromatic ketone.
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- Maxime Fréneau
- Université Clermont Auvergne
- CNRS
- SIGMA Clermont
- ICCF
- F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand
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- CNRS
- Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
- ICMR
- Equipe de Photochimie
- UFR Sciences
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- Université Clermont Auvergne
- CNRS
- SIGMA Clermont
- ICCF
- F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand
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- CNRS
- Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
- ICMR
- Equipe de Photochimie
- UFR Sciences
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Geng C, Weiske T, Li J, Shaik S, Schwarz H. Intrinsic Reactivity of Diatomic 3d Transition-Metal Carbides in the Thermal Activation of Methane: Striking Electronic Structure Effects. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 141:599-610. [PMID: 30520302 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Mechanistic aspects of the C-H bond activation of methane by metal-carbide cations MC+ of the 3d transition-metals Sc-Zn were elucidated by NEVPT2//CASSCF quantum-chemical calculations and verified experimentally for M = Ti, V, Fe, and Cu by using Fourier transform ion-cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. While MC+ species with M = Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Cu, and Zn activate CH4 at ambient temperature, this is prevented with carbide cations of M = Mn, Fe, and Co by high apparent barriers; NiC+ has a small apparent barrier. Hydrogen-atom transfers from methane to metal-carbide cations were found to proceed via a proton-coupled electron transfer mechanism for M = Sc-Co; wherein the doubly occupied πxz/yz-orbitals between metal and carbon at the carbon site serve as electron donors and the corresponding metal-centered vacant π*xz/yz-orbitals as electron acceptors. Classical hydrogen-atom transfer transpires only in the case of NiC+, while ZnC+ follows a mechanistic scenario, in which a formally hydridic hydrogen is transferred. CuC+ reacts by a synchronous activation of two C-H bonds. While spin density is often so crucial for the reactions of numerous MO+/CH4 couples, it is much less important for the C-H bond activation by carbide cations of the 3d transition-metals, in which one notes large changes in bond dissociation energies, spin states, number of d-electrons, and charge distributions. All these factors jointly affect both the reactivity of the metal carbides and their mechanisms of C-H bond activation.
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- Caiyun Geng
- Institut für Chemie , Technische Universität Berlin , Straße des 17. Juni 115 , 10623 Berlin , Germany
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- Institut für Chemie , Technische Universität Berlin , Straße des 17. Juni 115 , 10623 Berlin , Germany
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry , Jilin University , Changchun 130023 , People's Republic of China.,Institut für Chemie , Technische Universität Berlin , Straße des 17. Juni 115 , 10623 Berlin , Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , 9190401 Jerusalem , Israel
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- Institut für Chemie , Technische Universität Berlin , Straße des 17. Juni 115 , 10623 Berlin , Germany
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Adam SM, Wijeratne GB, Rogler PJ, Diaz DE, Quist DA, Liu JJ, Karlin KD. Synthetic Fe/Cu Complexes: Toward Understanding Heme-Copper Oxidase Structure and Function. Chem Rev 2018; 118:10840-11022. [PMID: 30372042 PMCID: PMC6360144 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) are terminal enzymes on the mitochondrial or bacterial respiratory electron transport chain, which utilize a unique heterobinuclear active site to catalyze the 4H+/4e- reduction of dioxygen to water. This process involves a proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) from a tyrosine (phenolic) residue and additional redox events coupled to transmembrane proton pumping and ATP synthesis. Given that HCOs are large, complex, membrane-bound enzymes, bioinspired synthetic model chemistry is a promising approach to better understand heme-Cu-mediated dioxygen reduction, including the details of proton and electron movements. This review encompasses important aspects of heme-O2 and copper-O2 (bio)chemistries as they relate to the design and interpretation of small molecule model systems and provides perspectives from fundamental coordination chemistry, which can be applied to the understanding of HCO activity. We focus on recent advancements from studies of heme-Cu models, evaluating experimental and computational results, which highlight important fundamental structure-function relationships. Finally, we provide an outlook for future potential contributions from synthetic inorganic chemistry and discuss their implications with relevance to biological O2-reduction.
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- Suzanne M. Adam
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Lymar SV, Ertem MZ, Polyansky DE. Solvent-dependent transition from concerted electron-proton to proton transfer in photoinduced reactions between phenols and polypyridine Ru complexes with proton-accepting sites. Dalton Trans 2018; 47:15917-15928. [PMID: 30375615 DOI: 10.1039/c8dt03858a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The bimolecular rate coefficients (kobsq) for quenching the metal-to-ligand charge transfer excited states of two Ru polypyridine complexes containing H-bond accepting sites by six p-substituted phenols exhibit abrupt deviations from the expected linear correlations of log kobsq with phenol's Hammett σp constant. This pattern is attributed to a transition of the quenching mechanism from a concerted electron-proton transfer (EPT) to a proton transfer (PT); the latter becomes predominant for the most acidic phenols in acetonitrile, but not in dichloromethane. This assertion is supported by a detailed thermochemical analysis, which also excludes the quenching pathways involving electron transfer from phenols with or without deprotonation of phenols to the solvent, either concerted or sequential. The transition from EPT to PT upon the σp increase is consistent/supported by the magnitudes of the measured and computed PhOH/OD kinetic isotope effects and by the observed reduction of the EPT product yields upon replacing the low σp methoxyphenol by the high σp nitrophenol. In addition to modulating the relative contribution of the EPT and PT quenching pathways, the solvent strongly affects the bimolecular rate coefficients for the EPT quenching proper. Unlike with H-atom transfer reactions, this kinetic solvent effect could not be quantitatively accounted for by the phenol-solvent H-bonding alone, which suggests a solvent effect on the H-bonding constants in the phenol-Ru complex precursor exciplexes and/or on the unimolecular EPT rate coefficients within these exciplexes.
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- Sergei V Lymar
- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA.
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Xu Y, Bao P, Song K, Shi Q. Theoretical study of proton coupled electron transfer reaction in the light state of the AppA BLUF photoreceptor. J Comput Chem 2018; 40:1005-1014. [PMID: 30341953 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2018] [Revised: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The BLUF (blue light sensor using flavin adenine dinucleotide) domain is widely studied as a prototype for proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions in biological systems. In this work, the photo-induced concerted PCET reaction from the light state of the AppA BLUF domain is investigated. To model the simultaneous transfer of two protons in the reaction, two-dimensional potential energy surfaces for the double proton transfer are first calculated for the locally excited and charge transfer states, which are then used to obtain the vibrational wave function overlaps and the vibrational energy levels. Contributions to the PCET rate constant from each pair of vibronic states are then analyzed using the theory based on the Fermi's golden rule. We show that, the recently proposed light state structure of the BLUF domain with a tautomerized Gln63 residue is consistent with the concerted transfer of one electron and two protons. It is also found that, thermal fluctuations of the protein structure, especially the proton donor-acceptor distances, play an important role in determining the PCET reaction rate. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Yang Xu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Odella E, Mora SJ, Wadsworth BL, Huynh MT, Goings JJ, Liddell PA, Groy TL, Gervaldo M, Sereno LE, Gust D, Moore TA, Moore GF, Hammes-Schiffer S, Moore AL. Controlling Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Bioinspired Artificial Photosynthetic Relays. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:15450-15460. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Emmanuel Odella
- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal No. 3, 5800 Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal No. 3, 5800 Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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Sankaralingam M, Lee YM, Karmalkar DG, Nam W, Fukuzumi S. A Mononuclear Non-heme Manganese(III)–Aqua Complex as a New Active Oxidant in Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:12695-12699. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b07772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Nano Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea
- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi 468-8502, Japan
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Zhou S, Sun X, Yue L, Schlangen M, Schwarz H. Selective C-O Coupling Hidden in the Thermal Reaction of [Al 2 CuO 5 ] + with Methane. Chemistry 2018; 24:14649-14653. [PMID: 30091489 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201804059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The thermal gas-phase reaction of [Al2 CuO5 ]+ with methane has been explored by using FT-ICR mass spectrometry complemented by high-level quantum chemical calculations. The generation of atomic [Cu]+ from the [Al2 CuO5 ]+ /CH4 couple corresponds to the only reaction channel. Labeling experiments and computational studies strongly suggest that methane activation is indeed involved in the production of [Cu]+ , and generation of CH2 O prevails. Mechanistic aspects and the associated doping effects are discussed.
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- Shaodong Zhou
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of, Advanced Chemical Engineering Manufacture Technology, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, P.R. China.,Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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Beyond the classical thermodynamic contributions to hydrogen atom abstraction reactivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E10287-E10294. [PMID: 30254163 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1806399115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hydrogen atom abstraction (HAA) reactions are cornerstones of chemistry. Various (metallo)enzymes performing the HAA catalysis evolved in nature and inspired the rational development of multiple synthetic catalysts. Still, the factors determining their catalytic efficiency are not fully understood. Herein, we define the simple thermodynamic factor η by employing two thermodynamic cycles: one for an oxidant (catalyst), along with its reduced, protonated, and hydrogenated form; and one for the substrate, along with its oxidized, deprotonated, and dehydrogenated form. It is demonstrated that η reflects the propensity of the substrate and catalyst for (a)synchronicity in concerted H+/e- transfers. As such, it significantly contributes to the activation energies of the HAA reactions, in addition to a classical thermodynamic (Bell-Evans-Polanyi) effect. In an attempt to understand the physicochemical interpretation of η, we discovered an elegant link between η and reorganization energy λ from Marcus theory. We discovered computationally that for a homologous set of HAA reactions, λ reaches its maximum for the lowest |η|, which then corresponds to the most synchronous HAA mechanism. This immediately implies that among HAA processes with the same reaction free energy, ΔG 0, the highest barrier (≡ΔG ≠) is expected for the most synchronous proton-coupled electron (i.e., hydrogen) transfer. As proof of concept, redox and acidobasic properties of nonheme FeIVO complexes are correlated with activation free energies for HAA from C-H and O-H bonds. We believe that the reported findings may represent a powerful concept in designing new HAA catalysts.
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Maximal orbital analysis of molecular wavefunctions. J Comput Chem 2018; 40:39-50. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Holmberg N, Laasonen K. Diabatic model for electrochemical hydrogen evolution based on constrained DFT configuration interaction. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:104702. [PMID: 30219020 DOI: 10.1063/1.5038959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) based kinetic models for electrocatalysis is diminished by spurious electron delocalization effects, which manifest as uncertainties in the predicted values of reaction and activation energies. In this work, we present a constrained DFT (CDFT) approach to alleviate overdelocalization effects in the Volmer-Heyrovsky mechanism of the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). This method is applied a posteriori to configurations sampled along a reaction path to correct their relative stabilities. Concretely, the first step of this approach involves describing the reaction in terms of a set of diabatic states that are constructed by imposing suitable density constraints on the system. Refined reaction energy profiles are then recovered by performing a configuration interaction (CDFT-CI) calculation within the basis spanned by the diabatic states. After a careful validation of the proposed method, we examined HER catalysis on open-ended carbon nanotubes and discovered that CDFT-CI increased activation energies and decreased reaction energies relative to DFT predictions. We believe that a similar approach could also be adopted to treat overdelocalization effects in other electrocatalytic proton-coupled electron transfer reactions, e.g., in the oxygen reduction reaction.
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- Nico Holmberg
- Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16100, 00076 Aalto, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16100, 00076 Aalto, Finland
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Shen L, Zeng X, Hu H, Hu X, Yang W. Accurate Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Calculations of Reduction Potentials in Azurin Variants. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:4948-4957. [PMID: 30040901 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Understanding the regulation mechanism and molecular determinants of the reduction potential of metalloprotein is a major challenge. An ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) method combining the minimum free energy path (MFEP) and fractional number of electron (FNE) approaches has been developed in our group to simulate the redox processes of large systems. The FNE scheme provides an efficient unique description for the redox process, while the MFEP method provides improved conformational sampling on complex environments such as protein in the QM/MM calculations. The reduction potentials of wild-type and seven mutants of azurin, a type 1 copper metalloprotein, were simulated with the QM/MM-MFEP+FNE approach in this paper. A range of 350 mV for the variations of the reduction potentials of these azurin proteins was reproduced faithfully with relative errors around 20 mV. The correlation between structural interactions and reduction potentials observed in simulations provides in-depth insight into the regulation of reduction potentials, which potentially can also be very useful to the engineering of metalloprotein-based electrocatalysts in artificial photosynthesis. The excellent accuracy and efficiency of the QM/MM-MFEP+FNE approach demonstrate the potential for simulations of many electron transfer processes in condensed phases and biochemical systems.
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- Lin Shen
- Department of Chemistry , Duke University , Durham , North Carolina 27708 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Duke University , Durham , North Carolina 27708 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Duke University , Durham , North Carolina 27708 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Duke University , Durham , North Carolina 27708 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Duke University , Durham , North Carolina 27708 , United States
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Gillet N, Elstner M, Kubař T. Coupled-perturbed DFTB-QM/MM metadynamics: Application to proton-coupled electron transfer. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:072328. [PMID: 30134697 DOI: 10.1063/1.5027100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present a new concept of free energy calculations of chemical reactions by means of extended sampling molecular dynamics simulations. Biasing potentials are applied on partial atomic charges, which may be combined with atomic coordinates either in a single collective variable or in multi-dimensional biasing simulations. The necessary additional gradients are obtained by solving coupled-perturbed equations within the approximative density-functional tight-binding method. The new computational scheme was implemented in a combination of Gromacs and Plumed. As a prospective application, proton-coupled electron transfer in a model molecular system is studied. Two collective variables are introduced naturally, one for the proton transfer and the other for the electron transfer. The results are in qualitative agreement with the extended free simulations performed for reference. Free energy minima as well as the mechanism of the process are identified correctly, while the topology of the transition region and the height of the energy barrier are only reproduced qualitatively. The application also illustrates possible difficulties with the new methodology. These may be inefficient sampling of spatial coordinates when atomic charges are biased exclusively and a decreased stability of the simulations. Still, the new approach represents a viable alternative for free energy calculations of a certain class of chemical reactions, for instance a proton-coupled electron transfer in proteins.
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- Natacha Gillet
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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