Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer between a Pendant Thiol and a Ferrous Dioxygen Adduct

Souvik Dinda, Triparna Roy, Soumya Samanta, Kumarjit Banerjee, Nicholas Cox*, Abhishek Dey*

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Abstract

The mechanism of thiol oxidation by O2, as catalyzed by ferrous porphyrins, is investigated by trapping intermediates of the transformation at low temperatures and subsequently characterizing them using continuous wave and pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance and resonance Raman spectroscopy. A Fe(III)-O2•- species is initially formed in an iron porphyrin with a pendant thiol functional group, which undergoes proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) (not HAT) to form an Fe(III)-OOH species. Following O-O bond homolysis, this forms a Fe(IV)═O species with concomitant oxidation of the thiol to an RSO3H group.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)21313-21322
Number of pages10
JournalInorganic Chemistry
Volume63
Issue number44
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

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