Caged CO2 for the Direct Observation of CO2‐Consuming Reactions |
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Authors: | Katharina Lommel Dr Gabriela Schäfer Konstantin Grenader Christoph Ruland Prof Dr Andreas Terfort Prof Dr Werner Mäntele Dr Georg Wille |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institut für Biophysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe‐Universit?t Frankfurt, Max‐von‐Laue‐Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main (Germany);2. Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe‐Universit?t Frankfurt, Max‐von‐Laue‐Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main (Germany) |
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Abstract: | CO2‐consuming reactions, in particular carboxylations, play important roles in technical processes and in nature. Their kinetic behavior and the reaction mechanisms of carboxylating enzymes are difficult to study because CO2 is inconvenient to handle as a gas, exists in equilibrium with bicarbonate in aqueous solution, and typically yields products that show no significant spectroscopic differences from the reactants in the UV/Vis range. Here we demonstrate the utility of 3‐nitrophenylacetic acid and related compounds (caged CO2) in conjunction with infrared spectroscopy as widely applicable tools for the investigation of such reactions, permitting convenient measurement of the kinetics of CO2 consumption. The use of isotopically labeled caged CO2 provides a tool for the assignment of infrared absorption bands, thus aiding insight into reaction intermediates and mechanisms. |
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Keywords: | caged CO2 carboxylation enzyme catalysis IR spectroscopy photolysis |
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