## Abstract Electronic mechanism of the reversible O~2~ binding by heme was studied by using Density Functional Theory calculations. The ground state of oxyheme was calculated to be open singlet state [Fe(S =1/2) + O~2~(S = 1/2)]. The potential energy surface for singlet state is associative, while
On the O2 binding of Fe–porphyrin, Fe–porphycene, and Fe–corrphycene complexes
✍ Scribed by Hiroyuki Nakashima; Jun-ya Hasegawa; Hiroshi Nakatsuji
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 337 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0192-8651
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Based on our previous study for the O~2~ binding of the Fe–Por complex, this study investigates the O~2~ binding mechanism in the Fe–porphyrin isomers, Fe–porphycene (FePc), and Fe–corrphycene (FeCor) complexes. By calculating the potential energy surface of the O~2~ binding, the present study explains the reason for the dramatic increase of O~2~ affinities observed in the FePc complex. In the case of FeCor–O~2~, the O~2~ binding process includes the intersystem crossing from a triplet to singlet state, as in the FePor–O~2~ complex. However, FePc–O~2~ uses only a singlet surface. This is because the ground state of the FePc complex in the deoxy state is a triplet state, while those of FePor and FeCor are a quintet state. Such difference originates from character of the SOMO. We estimated an equilibrium constant for the O~2~ binding that reasonably reproduced the trend observed in the experiments. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 27: 1363–1372, 2006
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