Abstract
It has long been known that imidazole can enhance the catalytic activity of catalase model compounds; however, the role of imidazole is still not well understood. In an attempt to elucidate the role of imidazole in promoting the disproportionation of hydrogen peroxide by model compounds, four mononuclear manganese salen (Mn-Salen) complexes with and without axial imidazole ligands were synthesized and characterized by singlecrystal X-ray diffraction, UV-vis spectroscopy, electrochemical and HPLC measurements. By comparing the Mn-Salen compounds with and without imidazole ligands, we demonstrated that the activity enhancement of imidazole originated from coordination of imidazole to the manganese center when less than one equivalent of imidazole was present, and from assisted deprotonation of the substrate when excess imidazole was present. These results provide direct evidence for the mechanism of activity enhancement of imidazole in the catalysis of enzyme model compounds.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 811-817 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Transition Metal Chemistry |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments This work was supported by the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering (No. 2060204), 111 Project (B07023), and NSFC of P. R. China (Nos. 20671034 and 21001044).