Mononuclear manganese(II) and iron(III) flavonolates were synthesized as synthetic enzyme-substrate complexes, and their oxygenation reactions as biomimetic functional models with relevance to flavonol 2,4-dioxygenases are briefly described.
Mononuclear iron(iii) flavonolate was synthesized as synthetic enzyme-substrate complex, and its direct and carboxylate-enhanced dioxygenation as biomimetic functional models with relevance to flavonol 2,4-dioxygenase are briefly described.
The complex [Fe(indH)(solvent)3](ClO4)2 (1) has been isolated from the reaction of equimolar amounts of 1,3-bis(2′-pyridylimino)isoindoline (indH) and Fe(ClO4)2 in acetonitrile and characterized by X-ray crystallography and several spectroscopic techniques. It is a suitable catalyst for the oxidation of thioanisoles and benzyl alcohols with H2O2 as the oxidant. Hammett correlations and kinetic isotope effect experiments support the involvement of an electrophilic metal-based oxidant. A metastable green species (2) is observed when 1 is reacted with H2O2 at −40 °C, which has been characterized to have a FeIII(μ-O)(μ-O2)FeIII core on the basis of UV-Vis, electron paramagnetic resonance, resonance Raman, and X-ray absorption spectroscopic data.
In this communication we describe the first example of a biomimetic mononuclear iron complex, [Fe(III)(Salen)Cl] (Salen = N,N'-bis(salicylidene)-ethylenediaminato), that highly selectively and efficiently catalyzes the oxidation of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACCH), α-aminoisobutyric acid (AIBH), and alanine (ALAH) to ethylene or the corresponding carbonyl compounds, mimicking the action of the non-heme iron enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase (ACCO).
The preparation, spectroscopic properties, and catecholase-like activity of the dimanganese(II) complex [Mn 2 (6¢Me 2 PAP) 2 Cl 4 ] [6¢Me 2 PAP: 1,4-di(6¢-methyl-2¢-pyridyl)aminophthalazine] are reported. The title compound was suitable catalyst for the oxidation of 3,5-di-t-butylcatechol (3,5-DTBCH 2 ) to 3,5-di-t-butyl-1,2-benzoquinone (3,5-DTBQ) with dioxygen under ambient conditions in good yields. The catalytic oxidation was found to obey Michaelis-Menten type kinetics.
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