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Santra A, Das A, Kaur S, Jain P, Ingole PP, Paria S. Catalytic reduction of oxygen to water by non-heme iron complexes: exploring the effect of the secondary coordination sphere proton exchanging site. Chem Sci 2024; 15:4095-4105. [PMID: 38487234 PMCID: PMC10935699 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc06753j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024] Open
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In this study, we prepared non-heme FeIII complexes (1, 2, and 3) of an N4 donor set of ligands (H2L, Me2L, and BPh2L). 1 is supported by a monoanionic bispyridine-dioxime ligand (HL). In 2 and 3, the primary coordination sphere of Fe remained similar to that in 1, except that the oxime protons of the ligand were replaced with two methyl groups and a bridging -BPh2 moiety, respectively. X-ray structures of the FeII complexes (1a and 3a) revealed similar Fe-N distances; however, they were slightly elongated in 2a. The FeIII/FeII potential of 1, 2, and 3 appeared at -0.31 V, -0.25 V, and 0.07 V vs. Fc+/Fc, respectively, implying that HL and Me2L have comparable donor properties. However, BPh2L is more electron deficient than HL or Me2L. 1 showed electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity in acetonitrile in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid (TFAH) as the proton source at Ecat/2 = -0.45 V and revealed selective 4e-/4H+ reduction of O2 to H2O. 1 showed an effective overpotential (ηeff) of 0.98 V and turnover frequency (TOFmax) of 1.02 × 103 s-1. Kinetic studies revealed a kcat of 2.7 × 107 M-2 s-1. Strikingly, 2 and 3 remained inactive for electrocatalytic ORR, which established the essential role of the oxime scaffolds in the electrocatalytic ORR of 1. Furthermore, a chemical ORR of 1 has been investigated using decamethylferrocene as the electron source. For 1, a similar rate equation was noted to that of the electrocatalytic pathway. A kcat of 6.07 × 104 M-2 s-1 was found chemically. Complex 2, however, underwent a very slow chemical ORR. Complex 3 chemically enhances the 4e-/4H+ reduction of O2 and exhibits a TOF of 0.24 s-1 and a kcat value of 2.47 × 102 M-1 s-1. Based on the experimental observations, we demonstrate that the oxime backbone of the ligand in 1 works as a proton exchanging site in the 4e-/4H+ reduction of O2. The study describes how the ORR is affected by the tuning of the ligand scaffold in a family of non-heme Fe complexes.
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- Aakash Santra
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas New Delhi 110016 India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas New Delhi 110016 India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas New Delhi 110016 India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas New Delhi 110016 India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas New Delhi 110016 India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas New Delhi 110016 India
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Samanta S, Sengupta S, Biswas S, Ghosh S, Barman S, Dey A. Iron Dioxygen Adduct Formed during Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction by Iron Porphyrins Shows Catalytic Heme Dioxygenase Reactivity. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:26477-26486. [PMID: 37993986 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2023]
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Heme dioxygenases oxidize the indole ring of tryptophan to kynurenine which is the first step in the biosynthesis of several important biomolecules like NAD, xanthurenic acid, and picolinic acid. A ferrous heme dioxygen adduct (or FeIII-O2•-) is the oxidant, and both the atoms of O2 are inserted in the product and its catalytic function has been difficult to emulate as it is complicated by competing rapid reactions like auto-oxidation and/or formation of the μ-oxo dimer. In situ resonance Raman spectroscopy technique, SERRS-RDE, is used to probe the species accumulated during electrochemical ORR catalyzed by site-isolated imidazole-bound iron porphyrin installed on a self-assembled monolayer covered electrode. These in situ SERRS-RDE data using labeled O2 show that indeed a FeIII-O2•- species accumulate on the electrode during ORR between -0.05 and -0.30 V versus Ag/AgCl (satd. KCl) and is reduced by proton coupled electron transfer to a FeIII-OOH species which, on the other hand, builds up on the electrode between -0.20 and -0.40 V versus Ag/AgCl (satd. KCl). This FeIII-OOH species then gives way to a FeIV═O species, which accumulates at -0.50 V versus Ag/AgCl (satd. KCl). When 2,3-dimethylindole is present in the solution and the applied potential is held in the range where FeIII-O2•- species accumulate, it gets oxidized to N-(2-acetylphenyl)acetamide retaining both the oxygens from O2 mimicking the reaction of heme dioxygenases. Turnover numbers more than 104 are recorded, establishing this imidazole-bound ferrous porphyrin as a functional model of heme dioxygenases.
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- Soumya Samanta
- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata 700032, India
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Meng J, Qin H, Lei H, Li X, Fan J, Zhang W, Apfel UP, Cao R. Adapting Synthetic Models of Heme/Cu Sites to Energy-Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023:e202312255. [PMID: 37921242 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202312255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Revised: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
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In nature, cytochrome c oxidases catalyze the 4e- oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) at the heme/Cu site, in which CuI is used to assist O2 activation. Because of the thermodynamic barrier to generate CuI , synthetic Fe-porphyrin/Cu complexes usually show moderate electrocatalytic ORR activity. We herein report on a Co-corrole/Co complex 1-Co for energy-efficient electrocatalytic ORR. By hanging a CoII ion over Co corrole, 1-Co realizes electrocatalytic 4e- ORR with a half-wave potential of 0.89 V versus RHE, which is outstanding among corrole-based electrocatalysts. Notably, 1-Co outperforms Co corrole hanged with CuII or ZnII . We revealed that the hanging CoII ion can provide an electron to improve O2 binding thermodynamically and dynamically, a function represented by the biological CuI ion of the heme/Cu site. This work is significant to present a remarkable ORR electrocatalyst and to show the vital role of a second-sphere redox-active metal ion in promoting O2 binding and activation.
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- Jia Meng
- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Anorganische Chemie I, Universitätsstrasse 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany
- Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Osterfelder Strasse 3, 46047, Oberhausen, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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Ghatak A, Samanta S, Nayek A, Mukherjee S, Dey SG, Dey A. Second-Sphere Hydrogen-Bond Donors and Acceptors Affect the Rate and Selectivity of Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction by Iron Porphyrins Differently. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:12931-12947. [PMID: 35939766 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The factors that control the rate and selectivity of 4e-/4H+ O2 reduction are important for efficient energy transformation as well as for understanding the terminal step of respiration in aerobic organisms. Inspired by the design of naturally occurring enzymes which are efficient catalysts for O2 and H2O2 reduction, several artificial systems have been generated where different second-sphere residues have been installed to enhance the rate and efficiency of the 4e-/4H+ O2 reduction. These include hydrogen-bonding residues like amines, carboxylates, ethers, amides, phenols, etc. In some cases, improvements in the catalysis were recorded, whereas in some cases improvements were marginal or nonexistent. In this work, we use an iron porphyrin complex with pendant 1,10-phenanthroline residues which show a pH-dependent variation of the rate of the electrochemical O2 reduction reaction (ORR) over 2 orders of magnitude. In-situ surface-enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy reveals the presence of different intermediates at different pH's reflecting different rate-determining steps at different pH's. These data in conjunction with density functional theory calculations reveal that when the distal 1,10-phenanthroline is neutral it acts as a hydrogen-bond acceptor which stabilizes H2O (product) binding to the active FeII state and retards the reaction. However, when the 1,10-phenanthroline is protonated, it acts as a hydrogen-bond donor which enhances O2 reduction by stabilizing FeIII-O2.- and FeIII-OOH intermediates and activating the O-O bond for cleavage. On the basis of these data, general guidelines for controlling the different possible rate-determining steps in the complex multistep 4e-/4H+ ORR are developed and a bioinspired principle-based design of an efficient electrochemical ORR is presented.
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- Arnab Ghatak
- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India
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Van Stappen C, Deng Y, Liu Y, Heidari H, Wang JX, Zhou Y, Ledray AP, Lu Y. Designing Artificial Metalloenzymes by Tuning of the Environment beyond the Primary Coordination Sphere. Chem Rev 2022; 122:11974-12045. [PMID: 35816578 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Metalloenzymes catalyze a variety of reactions using a limited number of natural amino acids and metallocofactors. Therefore, the environment beyond the primary coordination sphere must play an important role in both conferring and tuning their phenomenal catalytic properties, enabling active sites with otherwise similar primary coordination environments to perform a diverse array of biological functions. However, since the interactions beyond the primary coordination sphere are numerous and weak, it has been difficult to pinpoint structural features responsible for the tuning of activities of native enzymes. Designing artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) offers an excellent basis to elucidate the roles of these interactions and to further develop practical biological catalysts. In this review, we highlight how the secondary coordination spheres of ArMs influence metal binding and catalysis, with particular focus on the use of native protein scaffolds as templates for the design of ArMs by either rational design aided by computational modeling, directed evolution, or a combination of both approaches. In describing successes in designing heme, nonheme Fe, and Cu metalloenzymes, heteronuclear metalloenzymes containing heme, and those ArMs containing other metal centers (including those with non-native metal ions and metallocofactors), we have summarized insights gained on how careful controls of the interactions in the secondary coordination sphere, including hydrophobic and hydrogen bonding interactions, allow the generation and tuning of these respective systems to approach, rival, and, in a few cases, exceed those of native enzymes. We have also provided an outlook on the remaining challenges in the field and future directions that will allow for a deeper understanding of the secondary coordination sphere a deeper understanding of the secondary coordintion sphere to be gained, and in turn to guide the design of a broader and more efficient variety of ArMs.
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- Casey Van Stappen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 505 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 505 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Assembly of redox active metallo-enzymes and metallo-peptides on electrodes: Abiological constructs to probe natural processes. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2022; 68:102142. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2022.102142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Nayek A, Ahmed ME, Samanta S, Dinda S, Patra S, Dey SG, Dey A. Bioinorganic Chemistry on Electrodes: Methods to Functional Modeling. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:8402-8429. [PMID: 35503922 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c01842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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One of the major goals of bioinorganic chemistry has been to mimic the function of elegant metalloenzymes. Such functional modeling has been difficult to attain in solution, in particular, for reactions that require multiple protons and multiple electrons (nH+/ne-). Using a combination of heterogeneous electrochemistry, electrode and molecule design one may control both electron transfer (ET) and proton transfer (PT) of these nH+/ne- reactions. Such control can allow functional modeling of hydrogenases (H+ + e- → 1/2 H2), cytochrome c oxidase (O2 + 4 e- + 4 H+ → 2 H2O), monooxygenases (RR'CH2 + O2 + 2 e- + 2 H+ → RR'CHOH + H2O) and dioxygenases (S + O2 → SO2; S = organic substrate) in aqueous medium and at room temperatures. In addition, these heterogeneous constructs allow probing unnatural bioinspired reactions and estimation of the inner- and outer-sphere reorganization energy of small molecules and proteins.
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- Abhijit Nayek
- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India 700032
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Bhunia S, Ghatak A, Dey A. Second Sphere Effects on Oxygen Reduction and Peroxide Activation by Mononuclear Iron Porphyrins and Related Systems. Chem Rev 2022; 122:12370-12426. [PMID: 35404575 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c01021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Activation and reduction of O2 and H2O2 by synthetic and biosynthetic iron porphyrin models have proved to be a versatile platform for evaluating second-sphere effects deemed important in naturally occurring heme active sites. Advances in synthetic techniques have made it possible to install different functional groups around the porphyrin ligand, recreating artificial analogues of the proximal and distal sites encountered in the heme proteins. Using judicious choices of these substituents, several of the elegant second-sphere effects that are proposed to be important in the reactivity of key heme proteins have been evaluated under controlled environments, adding fundamental insight into the roles played by these weak interactions in nature. This review presents a detailed description of these efforts and how these have not only demystified these second-sphere effects but also how the knowledge obtained resulted in functional mimics of these heme enzymes.
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- Sarmistha Bhunia
- School of Chemical Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- School of Chemical Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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Mukherjee M, Dey A. Rejigging Electron and Proton Transfer to Transition between Dioxygenase, Monooxygenase, Peroxygenase, and Oxygen Reduction Activity: Insights from Bioinspired Constructs of Heme Enzymes. JACS AU 2021; 1:1296-1311. [PMID: 34604840 PMCID: PMC8479764 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Nature has employed heme proteins to execute a diverse set of vital life processes. Years of research have been devoted to understanding the factors which bias these heme enzymes, with all having a heme cofactor, toward distinct catalytic activity. Among them, axial ligation, distal super structure, and substrate binding pockets are few very vividly recognized ones. Detailed mechanistic investigation of these heme enzymes suggested that several of these enzymes, while functionally divergent, use similar intermediates. Furthermore, the formation and decay of these intermediates depend on proton and electron transfer processes in the enzyme active site. Over the past decade, work in this group, using in situ surface enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy of synthetic and biosynthetic analogues of heme enzymes, a general idea of how proton and electron transfer rates relate to the lifetime of different O2 derived intermediates has been developed. These findings suggest that the enzymatic activities of all these heme enzymes can be integrated into one general cycle which can be branched out to different catalytic pathways by regulating the lifetime and population of each of these intermediates. This regulation can further be achieved by tuning the electron and proton transfer steps. By strategically populating one of these intermediates during oxygen reduction, one can navigate through different catalytic processes to a desired direction by altering proton and electron transfer steps.
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- Manjistha Mukherjee
- School of Chemical Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India, 700032
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- School of Chemical Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A Raja SC Mullick Road, Kolkata, WB India, 700032
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Xie L, Zhang X, Zhao B, Li P, Qi J, Guo X, Wang B, Lei H, Zhang W, Apfel U, Cao R. Enzyme‐Inspired Iron Porphyrins for Improved Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202015478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- Lisi Xie
- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie Anorganische Chemie I Universitätsstrasse 150 44801 Bochum Germany
- Fraunhofer UMSICHT Osterfelder Strasse 3 46047 Oberhausen Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry Ministry of Education School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119 China
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Xie L, Zhang XP, Zhao B, Li P, Qi J, Guo X, Wang B, Lei H, Zhang W, Apfel UP, Cao R. Enzyme-Inspired Iron Porphyrins for Improved Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:7576-7581. [PMID: 33462971 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202015478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Nature uses Fe porphyrin sites for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Synthetic Fe porphyrins have been extensively studied as ORR catalysts, but activity improvement is required. On the other hand, Fe porphyrins have been rarely shown to be efficient for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). We herein report an enzyme-inspired Fe porphyrin 1 as an efficient catalyst for both ORR and OER. Complex 1, which bears a tethered imidazole for Fe binding, beats imidazole-free analogue 2, with an anodic shift of ORR half-wave potential by 160 mV and a decrease of OER overpotential by 150 mV to get the benchmark current density at 10 mA cm-2 . Theoretical studies suggested that hydroxide attack to a formal FeV =O form the O-O bond. The axial imidazole can prevent the formation of trans HO-FeV =O, which is less effective to form O-O bond with hydroxide. As a practical demonstration, we assembled rechargeable Zn-air battery with 1, which shows equal performance to that with Pt/Ir-based materials.
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- Lisi Xie
- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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- Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Anorganische Chemie I, Universitätsstrasse 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany.,Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Osterfelder Strasse 3, 46047, Oberhausen, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
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Petrik ID, Davydov R, Kahle M, Sandoval B, Dwaraknath S, Ädelroth P, Hoffman B, Lu Y. An Engineered Glutamate in Biosynthetic Models of Heme-Copper Oxidases Drives Complete Product Selectivity by Tuning the Hydrogen-Bonding Network. Biochemistry 2021; 60:346-355. [PMID: 33464878 PMCID: PMC7888536 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Efficiently carrying out the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is critical for many applications in biology and chemistry, such as bioenergetics and fuel cells, respectively. In biology, this reaction is carried out by large, transmembrane oxidases such as heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) and cytochrome bd oxidases. Common to these oxidases is the presence of a glutamate residue next to the active site, but its precise role in regulating the oxidase activity remains unclear. To gain insight into its role, we herein report that incorporation of glutamate next to a designed heme-copper center in two biosynthetic models of HCOs improves O2 binding affinity, facilitates protonation of reaction intermediates, and eliminates release of reactive oxygen species. High-resolution crystal structures of the models revealed extended, water-mediated hydrogen-bonding networks involving the glutamate. Electron paramagnetic resonance of the cryoreduced oxy-ferrous centers at cryogenic temperature followed by thermal annealing allowed observation of the key hydroperoxo intermediate that can be attributed to the hydrogen-bonding network. By demonstrating these important roles of glutamate in oxygen reduction biochemistry, this work offers deeper insights into its role in native oxidases, which may guide the design of more efficient artificial ORR enzymes or catalysts for applications such as fuel cells.
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- Igor D. Petrik
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- The Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Mukherjee S, Nayek A, Bhunia S, Dey SG, Dey A. A Single Iron Porphyrin Shows pH Dependent Switch between "Push" and "Pull" Effects in Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:14564-14576. [PMID: 32970430 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The "push-pull" effects associated with heme enzymes manifest themselves through highly evolved distal amino acid environments and axial ligands to the heme. These conserved residues enhance their reactivities by orders of magnitude relative to small molecules that mimic the primary coordination. An instance of a mononuclear iron porphyrin with covalently attached pendent phenanthroline groups is reported which exhibit reactivity indicating a pH dependent "push" to "pull" transition in the same molecule. The pendant phenanthroline residues provide proton transfer pathways into the iron site, ensuring selective 4e-/4H+ reduction of O2 to water. The protonation of these residues at lower pH mimics the pull effect of peroxidases, and a coordination of an axial hydroxide ligand at high pH emulates the push effect of P450 monooxygenases. Both effects enhance the rate of O2 reduction by orders of magnitude over its value at neutral pH while maintaining exclusive selectivity for 4e-/4H+ oxygen reduction reaction.
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- Sudipta Mukherjee
- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A & 2B Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A & 2B Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A & 2B Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A & 2B Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A & 2B Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
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Leone L, Chino M, Nastri F, Maglio O, Pavone V, Lombardi A. Mimochrome, a metalloporphyrin‐based catalytic Swiss knife†. Biotechnol Appl Biochem 2020; 67:495-515. [DOI: 10.1002/bab.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Linda Leone
- Department of Chemical Sciences University of Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences University of Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences University of Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences University of Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
- IBB ‐ National Research Council Napoli Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences University of Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences University of Napoli “Federico II” Napoli Italy
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Nichols AW, Hooe SL, Kuehner JS, Dickie DA, Machan CW. Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Formate with Molecular Fe(III) Complexes Containing Pendent Proton Relays. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:5854-5864. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Asa W. Nichols
- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4319, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4319, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4319, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4319, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400319, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4319, United States
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Brezny AC, Johnson SI, Raugei S, Mayer JM. Selectivity-Determining Steps in O 2 Reduction Catalyzed by Iron(tetramesitylporphyrin). J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:4108-4113. [PMID: 32064870 PMCID: PMC7266133 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is the cathode reaction in fuel cells and its selectivity for water over hydrogen peroxide production is important for these technologies. Iron porphyrin catalysts have long been studied for the ORR, but the origins of their selectivity are not well understood because the selectivity-determining step(s) usually occur after the rate-determining step. We report here the effects of acid concentration, as well as other solution conditions such as acid pKa, on the H2O2/H2O selectivity in electrocatalytic ORR by iron(tetramesitylporphyrin) (Fe(TMP)) in DMF. The results show that selectivity reflects a kinetic competition in which the dependence on [HX] is one order greater for the production of H2O than H2O2. Based on such experimental results and computational studies, we propose that the selectivity is governed by competition between protonation of the hydroperoxo intermediate, FeIII(TMP)(OOH), to produce water versus dissociation of the HOO- ligand to yield H2O2. The data rule out a bifurcation based on the regioselectivity of protonation of the hydroperoxide, as suggested in the enzymatic systems. Furthermore, the analysis developed in this report should be generally valuable to the study of selectivity in other multi-proton/multi-electron electrocatalytic reactions.
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- Anna C. Brezny
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
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- Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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Nazemi Z, Prasad P, Chakraborty S. Kinetics of Oxygen Reduction by a Beta Barrel Heme Protein on Hyrid Bioelectrodes. ChemElectroChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.201901945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Zahra Nazemi
- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Mississippi, University Mississippi MS 38677 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Mississippi, University Mississippi MS 38677 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Mississippi, University Mississippi MS 38677 USA
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- Charles W. Machan
- University of Virginia, McCormick Road,
PO Box 400319, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4319, United States
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Dinda S, Roy S, Patra SC, Bhandary S, Pramanik K, Ganguly S. Polyaromatic hydrocarbon derivatized azo-oximes of cobalt( iii) for the ligand-redox controlled electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction. NEW J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/c9nj05527d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Two new polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) derivatized cobalt(iii) azo-oxime complexes were synthesized and their activity in electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) were explored.
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- Soumitra Dinda
- Department of Chemistry
- St. Xavier's College (Autonomous)
- Kolkata–700016
- India
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- Molecular Materials Laboratory
- Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit
- Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
- Jakkur
- Bangalore
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
- Bhopal By-pass Road
- Bhauri
- Bhopal
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- Department of Chemistry
- St. Xavier's College (Autonomous)
- Kolkata–700016
- India
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Rapson TD, Christley-Balcomb AM, Jackson CJ, Sutherland TD. Enhancement of metallomacrocycle-based oxygen reduction catalysis through immobilization in a tunable silk-protein scaffold. J Inorg Biochem 2019; 204:110960. [PMID: 31865257 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2019.110960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 12/10/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Fuel cells convert chemical energy into electrical current with the use of an oxidant such as oxygen and have the potential to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. To overcome the slow kinetics of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), platinum is often used as the catalyst. However, the scarcity and expense of platinum limits the wide-spread use of fuel cells. In the search for non-platinum oxygen reduction catalysts, metallomacrocycles have attracted significant attention. While progress has been made in understanding how metallomacrocycle-based molecules can catalyze the ORR, their low stability, remains an on-going challenge. Here we report an immobilization strategy whereby hemin (iron protoporphyrin IX, heme b) is converted into an oxygen reduction catalyst which could be operated for over 96 h, with turnover numbers >107. This represents a 3 orders of magnitude improvement over the best reported iron porphyrin ORR catalyst to date. The basis for this improvement in turnover is specific binding of the heme within a recombinant silk protein, which allows for separation of the porphyrin active sites. Use of the silk protein provides a scaffold that can be engineered to improve selectivity and efficiency. Through rational design of the heme binding site, a > 95% selectivity for a four-electron reduction of oxygen to water was obtained, equal to the selectivity obtained using platinum-based catalysts. This work represents an important advance in the field, demonstrating that metallomacrocycle-based ORR catalysts are viable for use in fuel cells.
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- CSIRO, Black Mountain, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia; Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia
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Engineering Metalloprotein Functions in Designed and Native Scaffolds. Trends Biochem Sci 2019; 44:1022-1040. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2019.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Revised: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Ghatak A, Bhakta S, Bhunia S, Dey A. Influence of the distal guanidine group on the rate and selectivity of O 2 reduction by iron porphyrin. Chem Sci 2019; 10:9692-9698. [PMID: 32055338 PMCID: PMC6993607 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc02711d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The O2 reduction reaction (ORR) catalysed by iron porphyrins with covalently attached pendant guanidine groups is reported. The results show a clear enhancement in the rate and selectivity for the 4e-/4H+ ORR. In situ resonance Raman investigations show that the rate determining step (rds) is O2 binding to ferrous porphyrins in contrast to the case of mononuclear iron porphyrins and heme/Cu analogues where the O-O bond cleavage of a heme peroxide is the rds. The selectivity is further enhanced when an axial imidazole ligand is introduced. Thus, the combination of the axial imidazole ligand and pendant guanidine ligand, analogous to the active site of peroxidases, is determined to be very effective in enabling a facile and selective 4e-/4H+ ORR.
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- Arnab Ghatak
- School of Chemical Sciences , Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science , 2A & 2B Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur , Kolkata , 700032 , India .
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- School of Chemical Sciences , Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science , 2A & 2B Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur , Kolkata , 700032 , India .
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- School of Chemical Sciences , Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science , 2A & 2B Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur , Kolkata , 700032 , India .
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- School of Chemical Sciences , Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science , 2A & 2B Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur , Kolkata , 700032 , India .
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Bhagi-Damodaran A, Lu Y. The Periodic Table's Impact on Bioinorganic Chemistry and Biology's Selective Use of Metal Ions. STRUCTURE AND BONDING 2019; 182:153-173. [PMID: 36567794 PMCID: PMC9788643 DOI: 10.1007/430_2019_45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Despite the availability of a vast variety of metal ions in the periodic table, biology uses only a selective few metal ions. Most of the redox active metals used belong to the first row of transition metals in the periodic table and include Fe, Co, Ni, Mn and Cu. On the other hand, Ca, Zn and Mg are the most commonly used redox inactive metals in biology. In this chapter, we discuss the periodic table's impact on bio-inorganic chemistry, by exploring reasons behind this selective choice of metals biology. A special focus is placed on the chemical and functional reasons why one metal ion is preferred over another one. We discuss the implications of metal choice in various biological processes including catalysis, electron transfer, redox sensing and signaling. We find that bioavailability of metal ions along with their redox potentials, coordination flexibility, valency and ligand affinity determine the specificity of metals for biological processes. Understanding the implications underlying the selective choice of metals of the periodic table in these biological processes can help design more efficient catalysts, more precise biosensors and more effective drugs.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
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