Excited state property of hardly photodissociable heme-CO adduct studied by time-dependent density functional theory.
While most of CO-bound hemes are easily photodissociated with a quantum yield of nearly unity, we occasionally encounter a CO-heme which appears hardly photodissociable under the ordinary measurement conditions of resonance Raman spectra using CW laser excitation and a spinning cell. This study aims to understand such hemes theoretically, that is, the excited-state properties of the five-coordinate heme-CO adduct (5cH) as well as the 6c heme-CO adduct (6cH) with a weak axial ligand. Using a hybrid density functional theory, we scrutinized the properties of the ground and excited spin states of the computational models of a 5cH and a water-ligated 6cH (6cH-H(2)O) and compared these properties with those of a photodissociable imidazole-ligated 6cH (6cH-Im). Jahn-Teller softening for the Fe-C-O bending potential in the a(1)-e excited state was suggested. The excited-state properties of 6cH-Im and 5cH were further studied with time-dependent DFT theory. The reaction products of 6cH-Im and 5cH were assumed to be quintet and triplet states, respectively. According to the time-dependent DFT calculations, the Q excited state of 6cH-Im, which is initially a pure pi-pi state, crosses the Fe-CO dissociative state (2A') without large elongation of the Fe-CO bond. In contrast, the Q state of the 5cH does not cross the Fe-CO dissociative state but results in the formation of the excited spin state with a bent Fe-C-O. Consequently, photoisomerization from linear to bent Fe-C-O in the 5cH is a likely mechanism for apparent nonphotodissociation.
Ohta
Takehiro
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Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan.
Pal
Biswajit
B
Kitagawa
Teizo
T
D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D004583:Electrons; D006418:Heme / Q000737:chemistry*; D007093:Imidazoles / Q000737:chemistry; D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry; D008024:Ligands; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010782:Photolysis; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
D007093:Imidazoles; D008024:Ligands; D014867:Water; D006418:Heme; C029899:imidazole; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D007501:Iron