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JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 102, Issue 1, Pages 70-76Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2007.07.018
Keywords
CO; NO; O-2; binding energy; substituted porphyrins
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The effect of beta-substituents (-NO2, -Br, -OCH3) in the reactivity of Fe(II) and Fe(III) porphyrins is studied by means of density funcional theory (DFT) calculations. The binding of nitric oxide, carbon monoxide and dioxygen (NO, CO, O-2) was explored due to the relevance of their interactions in the chemistry of heme proteins and in biomimetic catalysis. The binding capability (BC) of the porphyrins was found to be strongly modulated both by the donor and attractor substituents used in the work. Unexpectedly, we found that the BC of Fe(II) porphyrins is mainly decreased for the diatomic ligands, when both donor or withdrawing substituents were considered. This effect was particularly significant when the ligand was oxygen. The correlation of Fe-X and X-O (X = N, C, O) bond distances is explained in terms of backdonation effects. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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