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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 83, Issue 20, Pages 7856-7862Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac201622g
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20777066, 40871108]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [R5110031]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2010QNA6025]
- National Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China [2009AA063101]
- NSERC
- NRC
- CIHR
- Province of Saskatchewan
- WEDC
- University of Saskatchewan
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Photoreduction is a major obstacle for using the X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XCANES) fingerprint to perform metal speciation at the molecular level in biological and environmental samples, especially for metalloproteins. In this study, soft X-ray induced photoreduction was observed in organic Cu(II) compounds during XANES measurements in a third generation synchrotron source. Next Cu L(3)-edge, O K-edge, and C K-edge XANES spectroscopy, together with the scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM), were used to probe the specific radiation damage processes of Cu acetate with similar local structures to Cu metalloproteins. Breakup of the Cu-Cu bond was hypothesized for the initial photoreduction of Cu acetate. The following radiation damage of Cu acetate produced CuO and an organic Cu(I) compound with a C=C bond, and the further photoreduction of the resulting CuO to Cu metal was also demonstrated Our results indicated the importance of consideration of photoreduction during soft XANES measurements for the solid state compounds with high valence metals. Reducing the radiation dose to similar to 0.1 MGy effectively prevented the photoreduction of organic Cu(II) compounds during these measurements. This proposed radiation damage mechanism in Cu acetate may be generally useful in explaining the photoreduction process in Cu metalloproteins.
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