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Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Hydrogen-Bonded Phenols
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- Irebo, Tania, 1980- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Kemisk fysik
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- Hammarström, Leif, Professor (thesis advisor)
- Uppsala universitet,Kemisk fysik
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- Mayer, James M., Professor (opponent)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
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- ISBN 9789155476991
- Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2010
- English 69 s.
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Series: Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, 1651-6214 ; 706
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- Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) is one of the elementary reactions occurring in many chemical and biological systems, such as photosystem II where the oxidation of tyrosine (TyrZ) is coupled to deprotonation of the phenolic proton. This reaction is here modelled by the oxidation of a phenol covalently linked to a Ru(bpy)32+-moitey, which is photo-oxidized by a laser flash-quench method. This model system is unusual as mechanism of PCET is studied in a unimolecular system in water solution. Here we address the question how the nature of the proton accepting base and its hydrogen bond to phenol influence the PCET reaction. In the first part we investigate the effect of an internal hydrogen bond PCET from. Two similar phenols are compared. For both these the proton accepting base is a carboxylate group linked to the phenol on the ortho-position directly or via a methylene group. On the basis of kinetic and thermodynamic arguments it is suggested that the PCET from these occurs via a concerted electron proton transfer (CEP). Moreover, numerical modelling of the kinetic data provides an in-depth analysis of this CEP reaction, including promoting vibrations along the O–H–O coordinate that are required to explain the data. The second part describes the study on oxidation of phenol where either water or an external base the proton acceptor. The pH-dependence of the kinetics reveals four mechanistic regions for PCET within the same molecule when water is the base. It is shown that the competition between the mechanisms can be tuned by the strength of the oxidant. Moreover, these studies reveal the conditions that may favour a buffer-assisted PCET over that with deprotonation to water solution.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Kemi -- Fysikalisk kemi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Chemical Sciences -- Physical Chemistry (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Proton-coupled electron transfer
- phenol oxidation
- hydrogen bonds
- artificial photosynthesis
- promoting vibrations
- proton transfer
- laser flash-quench
- transient absorption.
- Physical chemistry
- Fysikalisk kemi
- Fysikalisk kemi
- Physical Chemistry
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