Quantitative Electromerism of a Well-defined Mononuclear Copper Complex Through Reversible Intramolecular Metal-Ligand Electron Transfer.

Copper amine oxidases are enzymes that exhibit in their active site a mononuclear copper complex and a 2,4,5-trihydroxyphenylalanine quinone (TPQ) cofactor; in the oxidative half of the catalytic cycle, the enzymes regulate their activity by a temperature-dependent electron transfer equilibrium between the CuII complex with the reduced, aminoquinol form of the cofactor and the reactive CuI complex with the corresponding oxidized, semiquinone form of the cofactor. Here, we report the first mononuclear copper complex with redox-active ligands showing quantitative, reversible electromerism between a CuII eletromer with reduced, neutral ligand and a CuI electromer with an oxidized, radical monocationic ligand. The CuII form, being exclusively present at low temperature, exhibits a lower enthalpy (like the enzymes), but the CuI complex exhibits a higher entropy and is exclusively present at room temperature in CH2Cl2 solution. Further analysis, based on six different copper complexes, discloses a large solvent effect on electromerism.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Chemistry

• Publication date

  2023-03-16

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1002/chem.202300514PMID 36924243
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