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Blomberg MRA, Ädelroth P. Reduction of molecular oxygen in flavodiiron proteins - Catalytic mechanism and comparison to heme-copper oxidases. J Inorg Biochem 2024; 255:112534. [PMID: 38552360 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2024.112534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2023] [Revised: 03/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
Abstract
The family of flavodiiron proteins (FDPs) plays an important role in the scavenging and detoxification of both molecular oxygen and nitric oxide. Using electrons from a flavin mononucleotide cofactor molecular oxygen is reduced to water and nitric oxide is reduced to nitrous oxide and water. While the mechanism for NO reduction in FDPs has been studied extensively, there is very little information available about O2 reduction. Here we use hybrid density functional theory (DFT) to study the mechanism for O2 reduction in FDPs. An important finding is that a proton coupled reduction is needed after the O2 molecule has bound to the diferrous diiron active site and before the OO bond can be cleaved. This is in contrast to the mechanism for NO reduction, where both NN bond formation and NO bond cleavage occurs from the same starting structure without any further reduction, according to both experimental and computational results. This computational result for the O2 reduction mechanism should be possible to evaluate experimentally. Another difference between the two substrates is that the actual OO bond cleavage barrier is low, and not involved in rate-limiting the reduction process, while the barrier connected with bond cleavage/formation in the NO reduction process is of similar height as the rate-limiting steps. We suggest that these results may be part of the explanation for the generally higher activity for O2 reduction as compared to NO reduction in most FDPs. Comparisons are also made to the O2 reduction reaction in the family of heme‑copper oxidases.
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- Margareta R A Blomberg
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Bracken AJ, Dong HT, Lengel MO, Lehnert N. Exploring second coordination sphere effects in flavodiiron nitric oxide reductase model complexes. Dalton Trans 2023; 52:17360-17374. [PMID: 37938109 DOI: 10.1039/d3dt02828c] [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: 11/09/2023]
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Flavodiiron nitric oxide reductases (FNORs) equip pathogens with resistance to nitric oxide (NO), an important immune defense agent in mammals, allowing these pathogens to proliferate in the human body, potentially causing chronic infections. Understanding the mechanism of how FNORs mediate the reduction of NO contributes to the greater goal of developing new therapeutic approaches against drug-resistant strains. Recent density functional theory calculations suggest that a second coordination sphere (SCS) tyrosine residue provides a hydrogen bond that is critical for the reduction of NO to N2O at the active site of FNORs [J. Lu, B. Bi, W. Lai and H. Chen, Origin of Nitric Oxide Reduction Activity in Flavo-Diiron NO Reductase: Key Roles of the Second Coordination Sphere, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 3795-3799]. Specifically, this H-bond stabilizes the hyponitrite intermediate and reduces the energetic barrier for the N-N coupling step. At the same time, the role of the Fe⋯Fe distance and its effect on the N-N coupling step has not been fully investigated. In this study, we equipped the H[BPMP] (= 2,6-bis[[bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amino]methyl]-4-methylphenol) ligand with SCS amide groups and investigated the corresponding diiron complexes with 0-2 bridging acetate ligands. These amide groups can form hydrogen bonds with the bridging acetate ligand(s) and potentially the coordinated NO groups in these model complexes. At the same time, by changing the number of bridging acetate ligands, we can systematically vary the Fe⋯Fe distance. The reactivity of these complexes with NO was then investigated, and the formation of stable iron(II)-NO complexes was observed. Upon one-electron reduction, these NO complexes form Dinitrosyl Iron Complexes (DNICs), which were further characterized using IR and EPR spectroscopy.
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- Abigail J Bracken
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, USA.
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Blomberg MRA, Ädelroth P. Reduction of Nitric Oxide to Nitrous Oxide in Flavodiiron Proteins: Catalytic Mechanism and Plausible Intermediates. ACS Catal 2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c04932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Dong HT, Camarena S, Sil D, Lengel MO, Zhao J, Hu MY, Alp EE, Krebs C, Lehnert N. What Is the Right Level of Activation of a High-Spin {FeNO} 7 Complex to Enable Direct N-N Coupling? Mechanistic Insight into Flavodiiron NO Reductases. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:16395-16409. [PMID: 36040133 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c04292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Flavodiiron nitric oxide reductases (FNORs), found in pathogenic bacteria, are capable of reducing nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide (N2O) to detoxify NO released by the human immune system. Previously, we reported the first FNOR model system that mediates direct NO reduction (Dong, H. T.; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 13429-13440), but no intermediate of the reaction could be characterized. Here, we present a new set of model complexes that, depending on the ligand substitution, can either mediate direct NO reduction or stabilize a highly activated high-spin (hs) {FeNO}7 complex, the first intermediate of the reaction. The precursors, [{FeII(MPA-(RPhO)2)}2] (1, R = H and 2, R = tBu, Me), were prepared first and fully characterized. Complex 1 (without steric protection) directly reduces NO to N2O almost quantitatively, which constitutes only the second example of this reaction in model systems. Contrarily, the reaction of sterically protected 2 with NO forms the stable mononitrosyl complex 3, which shows one of the lowest N-O stretching frequencies (1689 cm-1) observed so far for a mononuclear hs-{FeNO}7 complex. This study confirms that an N-O stretch ≤1700 cm-1 represents the appropriate level of activation of the FeNO unit to enable direct NO reduction. The higher activation level of these hs-{FeNO}7 complexes required for NO reduction compared to those formed in FNORs emphasizes the importance of hydrogen bonding residues in the active sites of FNORs to activate the bound NO ligands for direct N-N coupling and N2O formation. The implications of these results for FNORs are further discussed.
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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White CJ, Lengel MO, Bracken AJ, Kampf JW, Speelman AL, Alp EE, Hu MY, Zhao J, Lehnert N. Distortion of the [FeNO] 2 Core in Flavodiiron Nitric Oxide Reductase Models Inhibits N-N Bond Formation and Promotes Formation of Unusual Dinitrosyl Iron Complexes: Implications for Catalysis and Reactivity. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:3804-3820. [PMID: 35212523 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c10388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Flavodiiron nitric oxide reductases (FNORs) carry out the reduction of nitric oxide (NO) to nitrous oxide (N2O), allowing infectious pathogens to mitigate toxic levels of NO generated in the human immune response. We previously reported the model complex [Fe2(BPMP)(OPr)(NO)2](OTf)2 (1, OPr- = propionate) that contains two coplanar NO ligands and that is capable of quantitative NO reduction to N2O [White et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 2562-2574]. Here we investigate, for the first time, how a distortion of the active site affects the ability of the diiron core to mediate N2O formation. For this purpose, we prepared several analogues of 1 that contain two monodentate ligands in place of the bridging carboxylate, [Fe2(BPMP)(X)2(NO)2]3+/1+ (2-X; X = triflate, 1-methylimidazole, or methanol). Structural data of 2-X show that without the bridging carboxylate, the diiron core expands, leading to elongated (O)N-N(O) distances (from 2.80 Å in 1 to 3.00-3.96 Å in 2-X) and distorted (O)N-Fe-Fe-N(O) dihedral angles (from coplanarity (5.9°) in 1 to 52.9-85.1° in 2-X). Whereas 1 produces quantitative amounts of N2O upon one-electron reduction, N2O production is substantially impeded in 2-X, to an initial 5-10% N2O yield. The main products after reduction are unprecedented hs-FeII/{Fe(NO)2}9/10 dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNICs). Even though mononuclear DNICs are stable and do not show N-N coupling (since it is a spin-forbidden process), the hs-FeII/{Fe(NO)2}9/10 DNICs obtained from 2-X show unexpected reactivity and produce up to quantitative N2O yields after 2 h. The implications of these results for the active site structure of FNORs are discussed.
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- Corey J White
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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Song X, Liu J, Wang B. Emergence of Function from Nonheme Diiron Oxygenases: A Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Study of Oxygen Activation and Organophosphonate Catabolism Mechanisms by PhnZ. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c05116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Xitong Song
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, People’s Republic of China
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Sun XX, Du J, Tan JJ, Zhan SZ. A mono-oxo-bridged binuclear iron(iii) complex with a Fe–O–Fe angle of 180.0° and its catalytic activity for hydrogen evolution. NEW J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d1nj05904a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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There are potential applications for binuclear oxo-bridged iron complexes in biological processes, catalysts, and magnetic materials, and the design of new bridged-iron complexes is important.
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- Xia-Xing Sun
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
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Lehnert N, Kim E, Dong HT, Harland JB, Hunt AP, Manickas EC, Oakley KM, Pham J, Reed GC, Alfaro VS. The Biologically Relevant Coordination Chemistry of Iron and Nitric Oxide: Electronic Structure and Reactivity. Chem Rev 2021; 121:14682-14905. [PMID: 34902255 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially with iron, is at the heart of many biological transformations involving NO. A series of heme proteins, nitric oxide synthases (NOS), soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC), and nitrophorins, are responsible for the biosynthesis, sensing, and transport of NO. Alternatively, NO can be generated from nitrite by heme- and copper-containing nitrite reductases (NIRs). The NO-bearing small molecules such as nitrosothiols and dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNICs) can serve as an alternative vehicle for NO storage and transport. Once NO is formed, the rich reaction chemistry of NO leads to a wide variety of biological activities including reduction of NO by heme or non-heme iron-containing NO reductases and protein post-translational modifications by DNICs. Much of our understanding of the reactivity of metal sites in biology with NO and the mechanisms of these transformations has come from the elucidation of the geometric and electronic structures and chemical reactivity of synthetic model systems, in synergy with biochemical and biophysical studies on the relevant proteins themselves. This review focuses on recent advancements from studies on proteins and model complexes that not only have improved our understanding of the biological roles of NO but also have provided foundations for biomedical research and for bio-inspired catalyst design in energy science.
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- Nicolai Lehnert
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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Dey A, Gordon JB, Albert T, Sabuncu S, Siegler MA, MacMillan SN, Lancaster KM, Moënne‐Loccoz P, Goldberg DP. A Nonheme Mononuclear {FeNO}
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- Aniruddha Dey
- Department of Chemistry The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21218 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21218 USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry Oregon Health & Science University Portland OR 97239 USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry Oregon Health & Science University Portland OR 97239 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21218 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853 USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry Oregon Health & Science University Portland OR 97239 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD 21218 USA
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Dey A, Gordon JB, Albert T, Sabuncu S, Siegler MA, MacMillan SN, Lancaster KM, Moënne-Loccoz P, Goldberg DP. A Nonheme Mononuclear {FeNO} 7 Complex that Produces N 2 O in the Absence of an Exogenous Reductant. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:21558-21564. [PMID: 34415659 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202109062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
A new nonheme iron(II) complex, FeII (Me3 TACN)((OSiPh2 )2 O) (1), is reported. Reaction of 1 with NO(g) gives a stable mononitrosyl complex Fe(NO)(Me3 TACN)((OSiPh2 )2 O) (2), which was characterized by Mössbauer (δ=0.52 mm s-1 , |ΔEQ |=0.80 mm s-1 ), EPR (S=3/2), resonance Raman (RR) and Fe K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopies. The data show that 2 is an {FeNO}7 complex with an S=3/2 spin ground state. The RR spectrum (λexc =458 nm) of 2 combined with isotopic labeling (15 N, 18 O) reveals ν(N-O)=1680 cm-1 , which is highly activated, and is a nearly identical match to that seen for the reactive mononitrosyl intermediate in the nonheme iron enzyme FDPnor (ν(NO)=1681 cm-1 ). Complex 2 reacts rapidly with H2 O in THF to produce the N-N coupled product N2 O, providing the first example of a mononuclear nonheme iron complex that is capable of converting NO to N2 O in the absence of an exogenous reductant.
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- Aniruddha Dey
- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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