Spectroscopic and structural data for synthetic ES type complexes: a(Pap et al., 2010); b(Kaizer et al, 2007); c(Grubel et al., 2010); d(Baráth et al., 2009).
1. Introduction
Oxygenases are enzymes which play key roles in the metabolism of essential substances for vital functions, and in the biodegradation of aromatic compounds in the environment. Two types of oxygenases are known, namely mono- and dioxygenases: one atom oxygen is incorporated into a substrate by the former accompanied with the formation of water, and two atoms of dioxygen into one or two substrates by the latter (Eq. 1, Eq. 2, Eq. 3).
The oxygenases are metal-containing proteins and a fair number of them utilizes copper, manganese or iron at their active sites (Bugg, 2001). The dioxygenases as a subclass of these enzymes degrade cyclic organic substrates such as catechols and flavonoids. Catechol dioxygenases that act on ortho-dihydroxylated aromatic compounds are divided into two classes, namely intradiol and extradiol, which differ in their mode of ring cleavage and the oxidative state of the active-site metal (Kovaleva & Lipscomb, 2007). Intradiol enzymes contain an iron(III) center that is ligated by two histidines (His) and 2 tyrosines (Tyr) residues, while extradiol enzymes utilize iron(II) or, rarely manganese(II), that is coordinated by 2 histidines and 1 glutamic acid (Glu) residues. A fundamental question in the study of the catechol dioxygenases is: what factors control the choice of intradiol vs. extradiol specificity? The catalytic mechanism of intradiol cleavage has been proposed via activation of the catechol substrate by iron(III) to give an iron(II) semiquinone, which reacts directly with dioxygen to give a hydroperoxide intermediate, which then undergoes Criegee rearrangement via acyl migration to give muconic anhydride, as shown in Figure 1a. The catalytic mechanism of extradiol cleavage has been proposed also to involve one-electron transfer to give an iron(II)-superoxide-semiquinone complex, which recombines to form a hydroperoxide intermediate, which undergoes Criegee rearrangement via alkenyl migration to give an α-keto lactone intermediate, as shown in Figure 1b (Bugg & Ramaswamy, 2008). These compounds are important dietary components and have attracted considerable attention owing to their antioxidizing properties. Flavonoids are polyphenolic compounds that are widely distributed in vascular plants, and form active constituents of a number of herbal and traditional medicines.
In the soil environment, fungal and bacterial flavonol 2,4-dioxygenases (quercetinases) catalyze the oxidative degradation of flavonols to a depside (phenolic carboxylic acid esters) with concomitant evolution of carbon monoxide. Flavonol 2,4-dioxygenase was first recognized more than four decades ago in species of
Interestingly, recent investigations of flavonol 2,4-dioxygenase from
Studies on structural and functional models are important in order to elucidate the mechanism of the enzyme reaction. Extensive studies report on the coordination chemistry of flavonols with various metal ions. Recent crystallographic studies of flavonolato complexes of copper(I), copper(II), cobalt(III), and zinc(II) disclosed the coordination mode of the flavonolate ligand, geometries around the metal ions, and their influence on the delocalization of π-electrons in the flavonolate ligand, but only few examples are known for iron and manganese-containing systems. The stability of the metal flavonolates above can be explained by the chelation and formation of a stable five-membered ring in the flavonolate complexes. It can be assumed that the coordination mode of the substrate in the enzymatic and model systems could give rise to differences in the degradation rates. Apart from the coordination mode of flavonolate ligands, it is important to know how the flavonolate ligand is activated for the reaction with molecular oxygen. From our earlier results obtained both with redox and non-redox metal-containing systems, the conclusion could be drawn that the oxygenolysis of the flavonolate ion in aprotic solvents takes place via an 2,4-endoperoxide intermediate (Kaizer et al., 2006; Pap et al., 2010).
Since there is no manganese- or iron-containing systems in the literature, in this book we report details for synthesis and characterization of some manganese and iron(III) flavonolate complexes as synthetic models for the
2. Model systems
2.1. Synthetic enzyme-substrate (ES) models
Synthetic manganese and iron complexes have been synthesized and characterized by IR, UV-vis spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography (Fig. 3) (Baráth et al., 2009; Kaizer et al., 2007). Compounds Mn(fla)2(py)2 (flaH = flavonol) Fe(4’MeOfla)3 and Fe (4’Rfla)(salen) (salenH2 = 1,6-bisz(2-hydroxyphenyl)-2,5-diaza-hexa-1,5-diene, R = H, MeO, Cl, NMe2) have very similar IR and electronic spectra. Coordination of the substrate flavonol to the manganese and iron sites is indicated by the characteristic νCO band between 1540 and 1580 cm-1 (Table 1). Compared to that of the νCO vibration at 1602 cm-1 of free flavonol this band is shifted by 30-70 cm-1 to lower energies. This can be interpreted by the formation of a stable five-membered chelate that is formed upon the coordination of the 3-OH and 4-CO oxygen atoms of flavonol. The highest energy νCO is found for the complex Fe(fla)(salen), which is consistent with the structural data for Fe(fla)(salen). With increasing the difference in M-O distances (ΔM-O) in the chelate the νCO value shows an increase. The Mn(fla)2(py)2 complex exhibits the lowest energy νCO vibration.
In the UV-vis absorption spectrum the bathochromic shift of the flavonol π-π* transition, which is termed band I from ~340 nm, and the hypsochromic shift of the absorption band is found relative to the free flavonolate anion from 465 nm (Barhács et al., 2000) to 400-440 nm shows unambiguously the presence of the coordinated substrate. For example Mn(fla)2(py)2, exhibits band I at 433 nm. This matches well with the band I reported for [6-Ph2TPA)Mn(fla)]OTf (6-Ph2TPA =
The molecular structure and atom numbering scheme for complex Mn(fla)2(py)2 can be seen in Fig. 4. The manganese has a slightly distorted tetragonal bipyramidal geometry, which possesses high symmetry with trans coordination of the flavonolate ligands in the basal plane and the two pyridines in apical positions.
Complex | M–O (Å) | ΔΜ−Ο (Å) | IR, νCO(cm-1) | UV-vis, λ (nm) (log | |
Cu(fla)2a | Cu1–O1 Cu1–O2 | 1.942(2) 1.900(2) | 0.042 | 1536 | 433 (4.56) |
Mn(fla)2(py)2b | Mn1–O1 Mn1–O2 | 2.1839(18) 2.1274(16) | 0.057 | 1542 | 433 (4.14) |
[Mn(6Ph2TPA)(fla)]+c | Mn1–O1 Mn1–O2 | 2.143(3) 2.121(3) | 0.022 | 1550 | 431 (4.24) |
Fe(4’MeOfla)3b | Fe1–O1 Fe1–O2 | 2.109(8) 1.955(7) | 0.154 | 1547 | 411 (4.68) |
Fe(fla)(salen)d | Fe1–O1 Fe1–O2 | 2.139(4) 1.955(4) | 0.184 | 1549 | 407 (4.25) |
Fe(4’Clfla)(salen)d | 1547 | 411 (4.15) | |||
Fe(4’MeOfla)(salen)d | 1542 | 445 (4.25) | |||
Fe(4’NMe2fla)(salen)d | 1536 | 426 (4.56) |
The manganese-oxygen bond distances are in the range of 2.127–2.184 Å, somewhat longer than those in CuII(fla)2 (1.901-1944 Å). In the only other Mn(II) flavonolate complex reported to date, [6-Ph2TPA)Mn(fla)]ClO4, the Mn–O distances differ by ~0.06 Å, with the bond involving the ketone oxygen being shorter. The average Mn–O distance in Mn(fla)2(py)2 (2.13 Å) is longer than that found in [6-Ph2TPA)Mn(fla)]ClO4 (2.16 Å) (Grubel et al., 2010).
The O2–C1 distance is shorter while the O3–C9 distance is longer than those in the uncoordinated flavonol [1.357(3) and 1.232(3) Å]. Due to coordination to the manganese ion there are also changes in the bond lengths of the pyranone ring. The O1–C2 [1.374(3) Å] and C10–C15 [1.393(3) Å] bond lengths become longer, and the C1–C9 bond length [1.460(3) ] is somewhat shorter, which may be assigned to delocalization of the
The crystal structure of the homoleptic Fe(4’MeOfla)3, shown in Fig. 5 together with selected data, shows a distorted octahedral geometry around the iron(III) center, with all coordination sites being occupied by the bidentate 4’-methoxyflavonolate ligands. The iron-oxygen bond distances are in the range of 1.955–2.109 Å, somewhat longer than those in Cu(fla)2, but somewhat shorter than those in Mn(fla)2(py)2.
The molecular structure and atom numbering scheme for FeIII(fla)(salen), shown in Fig. 6 together with selected data, shows a distorted octahedral geometry around the iron(III) center, and that the flavonolate anion is coordinated as a bidentate ligand with a strongly twisted conformation of the salen ligand. The difference in M-O distances (ΔM-O) are somewhat bigger (0.184 Å) than those in Fe(4’MeOfla)3 (0.154 Å) (Kaizer et al, 2007).
57Mösbauer spectrum of the complex exhibits a dominant doublet with isomer shift,
2.2. Synthetic enzyme-product (EP) model
As a synthetic enzyme-product model (O-benzoylsalicylato)iron(III) complex (O-bsH = O-benzoylsalicylic acid) was isolated as a brown solid in ~80% yield by the reaction of Fe(salen)Cl and O-benzoylsalicylic acid in the presence of triethylamine at room temperature in methanol. The infrared (IR) spectrum of the complex shows bands corresponding to the coordinated O-benzoylsalicylate at 1731 cm-1 (νCO), and 1544, 1385 cm-1 (νCO2).
The difference between the asymmetric and symmetric stretching frequencies of this carboxylato group [Δν = νas(CO2) – νs(CO2)] is 159 cm-1, rendering these to a bidentate carboxylate bonding mode. The molecular structure of Fe(O-bs)(salen) as well as selected bond lengths and angles is shown in Fig. 9. The molecule is monomeric in the solid state. The overall geometry around the six-coordinated iron ion is described as a distorted octahedral geometry.
2.3. Functional models
Flavonolate as a chelating ligand forms stable complexes with copper, manganese and iron ions. Complexes Mn(fla)2(py)2, Fe(4’MeOfla)3 and Fe(4’Rfla)(salen) are inert to dioxygen in solid form, and even in solution at ambient conditions. At elevated temperature (100-120 ºC) the dioxygenation reaction proceeds reasonably fast in DMF. The CO content was determined by GC-MS. The GLC-MS analysis of the residue of the hydrolyzed complexes, after treatment with ethereal diazomethane, showed the presence of the O-benzoylsalicylic acid methylester. Oxygenations were also carried out under an atmosphere containing ~60% 18O2. Addition of excess of Et2O into the reaction mixtures resulted in the deposition of the mixture of the corresponding 18O- and 16O-benzoylsalicylato manganese and iron complexes [IR (KBr): 1740 (νC16O) and 1700 cm-1 (νC18O)]. The hydrolyzed acid derivative gave a molecular ion at m/z 260 (256+4), showing that both 18O atoms of 18O2 are incorporated into the carboxylic acid from the molecular oxygen, and the gas phases showed only the presence of unlabeled CO. The relative abundances of m/z 260 to that at m/z 256 parallel the 18O2 enrichments used in the experiments.
Reactions of Mn(fla)2(py)2, Fe(4’MeOfla)3 and Fe(fla)(salen) with dioxygen were performed in DMF solutions at 85–120 °C, and the concentration change of the corresponding complex was followed by electronic spectroscopy measuring the absorbance of the reaction mixture at 433, 411 and 407 nm, respectively. Kinetic studies on the oxygenation of the manganese and iron flavonolate complexes established second-order overall rate expressions –d[M(fla)]/dt = [M(fla)][O2], and all reactions were entropy driven (Table 2), indicating that the rate-determining step is bimolecular (Baráth et al., 2009; Kaizer et al., 2007).
Table 2. Kinetic data for the oxygenation of metal flavonolates (Baráth et al., 2009; Kaizer et al., 2007; Pap et al., 2010).
The influence of the 4‘-substituted groups on the reaction rate of Fe(4‘Rfla)(salen) and Cu(4‘Rfla)2 complexes showed a linear Hammett plot with a reaction constant of ρ =-0.54 and -0.63, respectively, indicating that the electron-releasing groups result in reamarkable increase in the reaction rates. On the basis of the kinetic data (compared to our earlier copper-containing systems), it can be said that there is no significant effect of the metal used in our model experiments, suggesting a same mechanism (Pap et al., 2010; Kaizer et al., 2006).
Beside the electronic factors the steric effect was also investigated on the dioxygenation reaction of Fe(fla)(salen). We have found that the rate of dioxygenolysis is dramatically enhanced by various coligands, such as acetate (CH3CO2-), phenyl- (PhCH2CO2-), diphenyl- (Ph2CHCO2-) or triphenylacetate (Ph3CCO2-) (Fig. 11).
For example, addition of 10 equivalents of the bulky Ph3CCO2- to Fe(fla)(salen) accelerated its decay by two order of magnitude (Vr = 171) at 100 ºC, and the reaction above can take place even at ambient temperature (20 ºC). The kinetics of the carboxylate-enhanced dioxygenation of FeIII(fla)(salen) measured at 40 ºC (Fig. 12) resulted in a rate equation with first order dependence on Fe(fla)(salen), dioxygen and triphenylacetate (k = (5.02 ± 0.35) × 102 M-2 s-1, ΔH# = 35 kJ mol-1, ΔS# = -120 J mol-1 K-1 at 313.16 K).
The main mechanistic difference between the direct and carboxylate-enhanced dioxygenation of Fe(fla)(salen) is that in the latter case there is an electron transfer from Fe(fla)(salen) to dioxygen resulting in the formation of free superoxide radical anion which was proved by the test for free superoxide radical anion with nitroblue tatrazolium (NBT), where the reduction of the added dye to the blue diformazan took place (Fig. 12). Same behavior was found for the enzyme-like oxygenation of [Cu(fla)(idpa)]ClO4 in the presence and absence of carboxylate co-ligands (Pap et al., 2010). On the basis of chemical, spectroscopic and kinetic data it can be said that bulky carboxylates as coligands dramatically enhance the reaction rate, which can be explained by two different pathways, caused by the formation of more reactive monodentate flavonolatoiron complexes (Fig. 13). An analogous reaction pathway, direct electron transfer from the activated flavonol to dioxygen without the need for redox cycling of the metal (b), was suggested for our earlier potassium and zinc-containing model systems, and the Ni- and Co-containing flavonol 2,4-dioxygenase (Merkens et al., 2008).
3. Conclusion
As a conclusion it can be said that in the enzyme-like oxygenation of the coordinated flavonolate ligand by manganese(II) or iron(III), the formation of endoperoxide in bimolecular reactions can be assumed, and their decomposition by loss of carbon monoxide results in the corresponding depside as a good mimic of the enzyme action. Furthermore it was shown that bulky carboxylates as coligands dramatically enhance the reaction rate, which can be explained by two different mechanisms, caused by the formation of more reactive monodentate iron(III) flavonolate complexes.
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful for the financial support of the grant TAMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KONV-2010-0003: Mobility and Environment: Researches in the fields of motor vehicle industry, energetics and environment in the Middle- and West-Transdanubian Regions of Hungary. The Project is supported by the European Union and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. Financial support of the Hungarian National research Fund (OTKA K67871 and K75783) is also gratefully acknowledged.
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