Axial and equatorial ligand effects on biomimetic cysteine dioxygenase model complexes

Gonzalez, L. E., Quesne, Matthew, Kumar, D., Goldberg, D. P. and De visser, S. P. 2012. Axial and equatorial ligand effects on biomimetic cysteine dioxygenase model complexes. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 10 (28) , pp. 5401-5409. 10.1039/c2ob25406a

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Abstract

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are presented on biomimetic model complexes of cysteine dioxygenase and focus on the effect of axial and equatorial ligand placement. Recent studies by one of us [Y. M. Badiei, M. A. Siegler and D. P. Goldberg, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 1274] gave evidence of a nonheme iron biomimetic model of cysteine dioxygenase using an i-propyl-bis(imino)pyridine, equatorial tridentate ligand. Addition of thiophenol, an anion – either chloride or triflate – and molecular oxygen, led to several possible stereoisomers of this cysteine dioxygenase biomimetic complex. Moreover, large differences in reactivity using chloride as compared to triflate as the binding anion were observed. Here we present a series of DFT calculations on the origin of these reactivity differences and show that it is caused by the preference of coordination site of anion versus thiophenol binding to the chemical system. Thus, stereochemical interactions of triflate and the bulky iso-propyl substituents of the ligand prevent binding of thiophenol in the trans position using triflate. By contrast, smaller anions, such as chloride, can bind in either cis or trans ligand positions and give isomers with similar stability. Our calculations help to explain the observance of thiophenol dioxygenation by this biomimetic system and gives details of the reactivity differences of ligated chloride versus triflate.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Chemistry
Subjects:	Q Science > QD Chemistry
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN:	1477-0520
Date of Acceptance:	30 May 2012
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2017 08:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/88641

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