CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY STUDIES OF METALLOFLAVIN COMPLEXES IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION
CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY STUDIES OF METALLOFLAVIN COMPLEXES IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION
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水溶液中金属黄素配合物的循环伏安法研究
DOI:
10.1002/chin.198202309
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发表时间:
1981
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通讯作者:
M. G. Dowling
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作者:
M. Clarke;M. G. Dowling
Electrochemical studies of stable tetraammineruthenium (II) complexes of 10-methylisoalloxazine, 3, 10-dimethylisoalloxazine, and riboflavin are reported. While approximating metal-stabilized flavosemiquinones in some of their properties, these complexes are best formulated as Run-Fl0I rather than Rum-Fl·. The reduction of the flavin ligand is shown to proceed through two successive single-electron steps rather than by the apparent two-electron process exhibited by the free flavins under similar conditions. This appears to be largely dueto destabilization of the fully reduced flavin. Measurements of the pKa values were determined spectrophotometrically and are used toextrapolate from experimental reduction potential data as a function of pH. Coordination of the metal to the N-5 and 0-4 positions of the isoalloxazine ring modulates the acid-base behavior of the flavin so that distinct pH regions emerge where electron transfer occurs without simultaneous proton transfer. A minimum separation between the two one-electron flavin reduction potentials occurs when the flavosemiquinone complex is 50% protonated at the Nl position. An unusually high oxidation potential for the Ru (II) indicates substantial donation of electron density from the metal onto the isoalloxazine ring. Several types of absorption phenomena are present owing to time-dependent adsorptions of the complex and interactions of the free flavin following dissociation of the reduced complex. Such processes are identified and discerned form bulk solutionredox couples. The results are discussed in terms of possible mechanisms for protein control of flavin redox behavior.