Organometallic Ruthenium and Iridium Transfer-Hydrogenation Catalysts Using Coenzyme NADH as a Cofactor
Organometallic Ruthenium and Iridium Transfer-Hydrogenation Catalysts Using Coenzyme NADH as a Cofactor
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201108175
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发表时间:
2012-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Sadler, Peter J.
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作者:
Betanzos-Lara, Soledad;Liu, Zhe;Sadler, Peter J.
The rapidly developing research area of bio-organometallic chemistry offers the possibility to design compounds with a potentially wide range of applications in biology and medicine.[1] In biocatalysis, organometallic complexes have mainly been concerned with the conversion of the coenzyme NAD+(or models of it)[2] to its reduced form NADH using formate as the hydride source.[3] Such organometallic compounds include IrIII and RhIII pentamethylcyclopentadienyl (Cp*) complexes and RuII arene complexes that catalyze this reduction regioselectively;[3–5] the RhIII derivative can drive enzymatic reactions relying on NADH as a cofactor.[3b, 4] Invivo, both NAD+ and NADH play important roles as cofactors in numerous biocatalyzed processes, including energy metabolism, antioxidation and oxidative stress, immunological functions, and cell death.[6] We are interested in the possibility that organometallic compounds can interfere with NAD+/NADH hydride transfer reactions in cells as a novel mechanism of action. We have shown previously that [(η6-arene) Ru (en) Cl]+(arene= hexamethylbenzene (hmb), pcymene (p-cym), indane (ind), and en= ethylenediamine) complexes can convert NAD+ to NADH using formate as the hydride source, and that such reactions might be feasible in cells because cells can tolerate millimolar levels of formate.[3a] Here we report the first observation of the reverse reaction, the transfer of hydride from 1, 4-NADH to organometallic complexes.[7] We show that half-sandwich RuII arene and IrIII cyclopentadienyl complexes can use NADH as an hydride source for the reduction of ketones, and that IrIII cyclopentadienyl derivatives are robust catalysts for the production of H2. These complexes may therefore be valuable for modulation of the redox status of cells (a potential drug target), as enzyme mimics, and for bio-coupled hydrogenation reactions.Our initial aim was to improve the efficiency of [(η6-arene) Ru (N, N) Cl]+ complexes as catalysts for hydride transfer from formate to NAD+ by replacing the N, N-chelating ligand en by π-acceptor diimine ligands such as 2, 2о-bipyrimidine (bpm) or 1, 10-phenanthroline (phen). RuII arene complexes where the arene is p-cym (1, 5), hmb (2), ind,(3), or 1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydronaphthalene (thn, 4; Table1) were synthesized as PF6 À salts. Complexes 1, 2, and 5 have been reported previously.[8]