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ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 261-272Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1560/IJC.49.2.261
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We have used picosecond fluorescence spectroscopy to study the proton-dissociation dynamics of bulk water and H2O molecules solvating Mg2+ ions in aqueous solutions. We have analyzed the photo-initiated proton-transfer reaction to a photobase 6-aminoquinoline by the Collins-Kimball approach and have modeled the ensuing bimolecular reaction dynamics by the Smoluchowski equation with radiation boundary conditions. We have found the on-contact proton transfer rate to follow the Marcus free-energy relation for proton transfer and estimate by this rate-equilibrium correlation the considerable enhancement in the acidity of the water molecules solvating the Mg2+ ion. Our findings may be used in the study of metallo-enzymes such as carbonic anhydrases (CAs), which catalyze the reversible addition reaction of OH- to CO2 by increasing the reactivity of the zinc-bound water molecules by means of stabilizing the product of water dissociation, the OH- anion.
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