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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 112, Issue 50, Pages 13149-13156Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp8016908
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- EPSRC [EP/G007705/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G007705/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The mechanism of benzene hydroxylation was investigated in the realistic enzyme environment of the human CYP 2C9 by using quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) calculations of the whole reaction profile using the B3LYP method to describe the QM region. The calculated QM/MM barriers for addition of the active species Compound I to benzene are consistent with experimental rate constants for benzene metabolism in CYP 2E1. In contrast to gas-phase model calculations, our results suggest that competing side-on and face-on geometries of arene addition may both occur in the case of aromatic ring oxidation in cytochrome P450s. QM/MM profiles for three different rearrangement pathways of the initially formed a-adduct, leading to formation of epoxide, ketone, and an N-protonated porphyrin species, were calculated. Our results suggest that epoxide and ketone products form with comparable ease in the face-on pathway, whereas epoxide formation is preferred in the side-on pathway. Additionally, rearrangement to the N-protonated porphyrin species was found to be competitive with side-on epoxide formation. This suggests that overall, the competition between formation of epoxide and phenol final products in P450 oxidation of aromatic substrates is quite finely balanced.
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