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Optical absorption and resonance Raman spectra have been investigated for enzymatic intermediates, compounds I and II, of chloroperoxidase (CPO) which contains a thiolate-ligated iron porphyrin. Compound I of CPO (CPO-I), an oxoferryl porphyrin π cation radical, gave an apparently asymmetric single-peaked Soret band at 367 nm, for which band fitting analyses revealed the presence of two transition bands around 365 and 415 nm. Compound II of CPO (CPO-II), an oxoferryl neutral porphyrin, gave a split Soret spectrum with two bands (blue and red Soret bands) at 373 and 436 nm. Thus both CPO-I and CPO-II can be categorized as hyperporphyrins. The maximum extinction coefficients (εb and εr) and energies (E b and E r) of the blue and red Soret bands of CPO-II were found to fall on an εb/εr versus E b–E r correlation line derived from data reported for six-coordinate ferrous derivatives of cytochrome P450 and CPO. Corresponding data for CPO-I did not fall on the correlation line. Resonance enhancement of the FeIV=O stretching (νFeO) Raman band was found for CPO-I when Raman scattering was excited at wavelengths within both transition bands around 365 and 415 nm, while the νFeO Raman band was not identified for CPO-II at any of the excitation wavelengths examined here. These findings suggest that the thiolate axial ligand causes Soret band splitting of CPO-II through configuration interaction between the sulfur→porphyrin eg* charge transfer and porphyrin a1u,a2u→eg* transitions, while the FeO portion is important in determining the shape of the Soret band of CPO-I.
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Egawa, T., Proshlyakov, D., Miki, H. et al. Effects of a thiolate axial ligand on the π→π* electronic states of oxoferryl porphyrins: a study of the optical and resonance Raman spectra of compounds I and II of chloroperoxidase. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 6, 46–54 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007750000181
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s007750000181