Electronic Structure Makes a Difference: Cytochrome P‐450 Mediated Hydroxylations of Hydrocarbons as a Two‐State Reactivity Paradigm

This paper describes a reactivity paradigm called two-state reactivity (TSR) in C ± H bond activation by metal oxenoid cations (e.g., FeO‡). The paradigm is applied to the hydroxylation of alkanes by the active species of the enzyme cytochrome P-450, and a mechanistic scheme is proposed based on the competition between TSR pathways and single-state-reactivity (SSR) pathways. Generally, the oxide cations of the late transition metals (MO‡) possess the same bonding patterns as the O2 molecule, having a high-spin ground state and an adjacent low-spin excited state. The adjacency of the spin states, together with the poor bonding capability of the high-spin state and the good bonding capability of the low-spin state, leads to a spin crossover along the reaction coordinate and opens a low-energy TSR path for hydroxylation. The competing pathway is SSR, in which the reaction starts, occurs and ends in the same spin state. The TSR/SSR competition is modulated by the probability of spin crossover. Generally, TSR involves concerted pathways that conserve stereochemical information, while SSR results in stepwise mechanisms that scramble this information. The TSR/SSR competition is used to shed some light on recent results which are at odds with the commonly accepted mechanism of P-450 hydroxylation. The fundamental features of the paradigm are outlined and the theoretical and experimental challenges for its articulation are spelled out.

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