Siegbahn Per E M
Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 May 9;114(19):4966-4968. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1617843114. Epub 2017 Apr 24.
Two different types of mechanisms are at present suggested for the O-O bond-formation step in photosystem II. The first one is a coupling between an oxyl radical and a bridging oxo. The second one is a nucleophilic water attack on a terminal oxo (or oxyl) group. In the present short paper, the six most reasonable versions of the latter mechanism have been studied and compared with the oxo-oxyl mechanism. The barriers are found to be much too high for the water attack, and that mechanism can therefore safely be ruled out. The reason is that the protonated peroxide product is always very high in energy.
目前,关于光系统II中O-O键形成步骤提出了两种不同类型的机制。第一种是氧自由基与桥连氧之间的耦合。第二种是亲核水对末端氧(或氧基)基团的进攻。在本简短论文中,研究了后一种机制的六个最合理版本,并与氧-氧基机制进行了比较。发现水进攻的势垒过高,因此可以安全地排除该机制。原因是质子化过氧化物产物的能量总是非常高。