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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 24, Issue 10, Pages 2474-2482Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201705385
Keywords
density functional calculations; natural products; oxidation; reaction mechanisms; vanadium
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal [UID/QUI/00100/2013]
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Reactions of two vanadium(IV) complex anions that are homologues of amavadin, [V(HIDPA)(2)](2-) and [V(HIDA)(2)](2-) (HIDPA=N-oxyiminodipropionate, HIDA=N-oxyiminodiacetate), with the nitrite ion (NO2-) in aqueous solution were investigated by experimental (absorption spectroscopy in the visible range, through measurements of dioxygen formed in solution from water oxidation and identification of nitrogen oxide species of a gaseous atmosphere from nitrite reduction by using an IR analyser) and theoretical methods. Two reactions, mediated by the vanadium complexes, with environmental and biological significance, were observed in this system, namely, reduction of nitrite to N2O and oxidation of water to molecular oxygen. The reduction of nitrite, as studied by DFT calculations, occurs through the formation of NO (Delta G(not equal) = 14.3 kcal mol(-1)), which is strongly dependent on pH and slightly endergonic, and is then easily converted into N2O, with an overall activation barrier of Delta G(not equal) = 11.8 kcal mol(-1). The later process includes dimerisation of NO assisted by one molecule of the V complex, protonation and oxidation of the formed ONNO center dot- ligand by another amavadin molecule or by nitrite, and NO bond cleavage/proton transfer in the ONNOH- ligand. The results indicate that amavadin exhibits an unusual nitrite reductase type activity that could be involved in nitrogen metabolism of Amanita muscaria and other fungi containing this vanadium complex.
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