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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2024

Myoglobin-Catalyzed Azide Reduction Proceeds via an Anionic Metal Amide Intermediate.

Matthias Tinzl, Johannes V Diedrich, Peer R E Mittl, Martin Clémancey, Markus Reiher, Jonny Proppe, Jean-Marc Latour, Donald Hilvert

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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8 authors.

Matthias TinzlLaboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8147-3103
Johannes V DiedrichInstitute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0009-0004-8524-4625
Peer R E MittlDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3348-3147
Martin ClémanceyUniversité Grenoble AlpesCNRS, CEA, IRIG, Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux, 17 Rue des Martyrs, Grenoble F-38054 Cedex, France.
Markus ReiherInstitute for Molecular Physical Science, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-9508-1565
Jonny ProppeInstitute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5232-036X
Jean-Marc LatourUniversité Grenoble AlpesCNRS, CEA, IRIG, Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux, 17 Rue des Martyrs, Grenoble F-38054 Cedex, France.
Donald HilvertLaboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3941-621X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitrene transfer reactions catalyzed by heme proteins have broad potential for the stereoselective formation of carbon-nitrogen bonds. However, competition between productive nitrene transfer and the undesirable reduction of nitrene precursors limits the broad implementation of such biocatalytic methods. Here, we investigated the reduction of azides by the model heme protein myoglobin to gain mechanistic insights into the factors that control the fate of key reaction intermediates. In this system, the reaction proceeds via a proposed nitrene intermediate that is rapidly reduced and protonated to give a reactive ferrous amide species, which we characterized by UV/vis and Mössbauer spectroscopies, quantum mechanical calculations, and X-ray crystallography. Rate-limiting protonation of the ferrous amide to produce the corresponding amine is the final step in the catalytic cycle. These findings contribute to our understanding of the heme protein-catalyzed reduction of azides and provide a guide for future enzyme engineering campaigns to create more efficient nitrene transferases. Moreover, harnessing the reduction reaction in a chemoenzymatic cascade provided a potentially practical route to substituted pyrroles.

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PMCPMC10811658

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