Volume 234, 2022

Oxidative dehalogenation of halophenols by high-valent nonheme iron(iv)-oxo intermediates

Abstract

Mononuclear high-valent iron(IV)-oxo intermediates are excellent oxidants towards oxygenation reactions by heme and nonheme metalloenzymes and their model systems. One of the most important functions of these intermediates in nature is to detoxify various environmental pollutants. Organic substrates, such as halogenated phenols, are known to be water pollutants which can be degraded to their less hazardous forms through an oxidation reaction by iron(IV)-oxo complexes. Metalloproteins in nature utilize various types of second-coordination sphere interactions to anchor the substrate in the vicinity of the active site. This concept of substrate-binding is well-known for natural enzymes, but is elusive for the relevant biomimetic model systems. Herein, we report the oxidative reactivity patterns of an iron(IV)-oxo intermediate, [FeIV(O)(2PyN2Q)]2+, (2PyN2Q = 1,1-di(pyridin-2yl)-N,N-bis(quinolin-2-ylmethyl)methanamine) with a series of mono-, di- and tri-halophenols. A detailed experimental study shows that the dehalogenation reactions of the halophenols by such iron(IV)-oxo intermediates proceed via an initial hydrogen atom abstraction from the phenolic O–H group. Furthermore, based on the size and nucleophilicity of the halophenol, an intermediate substrate-bound species forms that is a phenolate adduct to the ferric species, which thereafter leads to the formation of the corresponding products.

Graphical abstract: Oxidative dehalogenation of halophenols by high-valent nonheme iron(iv)-oxo intermediates

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 सितम्बर 2021
Accepted
21 अक्तूबर 2021
First published
22 अक्तूबर 2021

Faraday Discuss., 2022,234, 58-69

Oxidative dehalogenation of halophenols by high-valent nonheme iron(IV)-oxo intermediates

U. K. Bagha, J. K. Satpathy, G. Mukherjee, P. Barman, D. Kumar, S. P. de Visser and Chivukula V. Sastri, Faraday Discuss., 2022, 234, 58 DOI: 10.1039/D1FD00064K

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