In cytochrome
c oxidase synthetic modeling studies, we recently reported a new
-
2:
2-peroxo binding mode inthe heteronuclear heme/copper complex [(
2L)Fe
III-(O
22-)-Cu
II]
+ (
6) which is effected by tridentate copper chelation(
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004,
126, 12716). To establish fundamental coordination and O
2-reactivity chemistry, wehave studied and describe here (i) the structure and dioxygen reactivity of the copper-free compound (
2L)Fe
II (
1),(ii) detailed spectroscopic properties of
6 in comparisons with those of known
-
2:
1 heme-peroxo-coppercomplexes, (iii) formation of
6 from the reactions of [(
2L)Fe
IICu
I]
+ (
3) and dioxygen by stopped-flow kinetics, and(iv) reactivities of
6 with CO and PPh
3. In the absence of copper,
1 serves as a myoglobin model compoundpossessing a pyridine-bound five-coordinate iron(II)-porphyrinate which undergoes reversible dioxygen binding.Oxygenation of
3 below -60
C generates the heme-peroxo-copper complex
6 with strong antiferromagneticcoupling between high-spin iron(III) and copper(II) to yield an
S = 2 spin system. Stopped-flow kinetics in CH
2Cl
2/6% EtCN show that dioxygen reacts with iron(II) first to form a heme-superoxide moiety, [(EtCN)(
2L)Fe
III-(O
2-)···Cu
I(EtCN)]
+ (
5), which further reacts with Cu
I to generate
6. Compared to those properties of a known
-
2:
1-heme-peroxo-copper complex,
6 has a significantly diminished resonance Raman
(O-O) stretchingfrequency at 747 cm
-1 and distinctive visible absorptions at 485,
541, and 572 nm, all of which seem to becharacteristics of a
-
2:
2-heme-peroxo-copper system. Addition of CO or PPh
3 to
6 yields a bis-CO adduct of
3 or a PPh
3 adduct of
5, the latter with a remaining Fe
III-(O
2-) moiety.