Formation of n → π+ interaction facilitating dissociative electron transfer in isolated tyrosine-containing molecular peptide radical cations

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (37) ◽  
pp. 21393-21402
Author(s):  
Wai Kit Tang ◽  
Xiaoyan Mu ◽  
Mengzhu Li ◽  
Jonathan Martens ◽  
Giel Berden ◽  
...  

IRMPD suggests existence of π-radicals of [FYGG]˙+ featuring the n → π+ interaction, which are reactive intermediates toward dissociative electron transfer.


2003 ◽  
Vol 75 (8) ◽  
pp. 1049-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Mizuno ◽  
T. Hayamizu ◽  
Hajime Maeda

Regio- and stereoselective photoallylation of electron-deficient alkenes by use of allylic silanes via photoinduced electron transfer has been described. Similar photoinduced  functionalization reactions such as arylmethylation, alkylation, and silylation can be achieved by using a variety of organosilicon compounds. These photoreactions proceed via radical cations of organosilicon compounds and radical anions of electron-deficient alkenes as reactive intermediates. The key step of the photoreactions is the attack of carbon radicals, which are generated from the radical cations of organosilicon compounds, on the radical anions of alkenes. The mechanism of the regio- and stereoselective photofunctionalization is discussed.



2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
Konrad Skotnicki ◽  
Slawomir Ostrowski ◽  
Jan Cz. Dobrowolski ◽  
Julio R. De la Fuente ◽  
Alvaro Cañete ◽  
...  

The azide radical (N3●) is one of the most important one-electron oxidants used extensively in radiation chemistry studies involving molecules of biological significance. Generally, it was assumed that N3● reacts in aqueous solutions only by electron transfer. However, there were several reports indicating the possibility of N3● addition in aqueous solutions to organic compounds containing double bonds. The main purpose of this study was to find an experimental approach that allows a clear assignment of the nature of obtained products either to its one-electron oxidation or its addition products. Radiolysis of water provides a convenient source of one-electron oxidizing radicals characterized by a very broad range of reduction potentials. Two inorganic radicals (SO4●−, CO3●−) and Tl2+ ions with the reduction potentials higher, and one radical (SCN)2●− with the reduction potential slightly lower than the reduction potential of N3● were selected as dominant electron-acceptors. Transient absorption spectra formed in their reactions with a series of quinoxalin-2-one derivatives were confronted with absorption spectra formed from reactions of N3● with the same series of compounds. Cases, in which the absorption spectra formed in reactions involving N3● differ from the absorption spectra formed in the reactions involving other one-electron oxidants, strongly indicate that N3● is involved in the other reaction channel such as addition to double bonds. Moreover, it was shown that high-rate constants of reactions of N3● with quinoxalin-2-ones do not ultimately prove that they are electron transfer reactions. The optimized structures of the radical cations (7-R-3-MeQ)●+, radicals (7-R-3-MeQ)● and N3● adducts at the C2 carbon atom in pyrazine moiety and their absorption spectra are reasonably well reproduced by density functional theory quantum mechanics calculations employing the ωB97XD functional combined with the Dunning’s aug-cc-pVTZ correlation-consistent polarized basis sets augmented with diffuse functions.



1998 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yurii A. Maletin ◽  
Roderick D. Cannon


1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 976-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Carson ◽  
Paul de Mayo

1,2-Diphenylcyclopropane (1) was found to be oxidized on illuminated ZnO in the presence of air while 1-(p-methoxyphenyl)-2-phenylcyclopropane (2) and 1,2-bis(p-methoxyphenyl)cyclopropane (3) were found to be similarly oxidized on illuminated CdS. Compounds 2 and 3 were found, also, to undergo a rapid photochemical cis-trans isomerization on CdS whereas 1 did not undergo such isomerization. An electron transfer mechanism involving formation of the radical cations of the substrates is proposed.



2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (19) ◽  
pp. 4528-4536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Puiatti ◽  
Juan E. Argüello ◽  
Alicia B. Peñéñory


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (39) ◽  
pp. 9237-9245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sason Shaik ◽  
David Danovich ◽  
G. Narahari Sastry ◽  
Philippe Y. Ayala ◽  
H. Bernhard Schlegel


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1448-1454
Author(s):  
Martin Goez ◽  
Martin Vogtherr

Electron transfer between the title compounds and their radical cations, which were generated by photoinduced electron transfer from the sulfides to excited 2,4,6-triphenylpyrylium cations, was investigated by time-resolved measurements of chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (CIDNP) in acetonitrile. The strongly negative activation entropies provide evidence for an associative–dissociative electron exchange involving dimeric radical cations. Despite this mechanistic complication, the free energies of activation were found to be well reproduced by the Marcus theory of electron transfer, with the activation barrier still dominated by solvent reorganization.



1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (44) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
S. F. NELSEN ◽  
P. J. HINTZ ◽  
J. M. BUSCHEK ◽  
G. R. WEISMAN


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