{"id":26199,"date":"2023-08-07T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=26199"},"modified":"2023-08-22T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:29:58","slug":"blue-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=26199","title":{"rendered":"Blue blood."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"26199\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Respiratory_pigment\">Respiratory pigments<\/a> are metalloproteins that transport O<sub>2<\/sub>, the best known being the bright red\/crimson coloured hemoglobin in human blood. The colour derives from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fe<sup>2+<\/sup> at the core of a tetraporphyrin ring<\/a>. But less well known is <strong>blue blood<\/strong>, and here the colour derives from an oxyhemocyanin unit based on Cu<sup>1+<\/sup> (the de-oxy form is colourless) rather than iron. See below for the carapace of a red rock crab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hemocyanin_Example-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hemocyanin_Example-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hemocyanin_Example-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hemocyanin_Example-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Hemocyanin_Example.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> Here I take a look at this very unusual structure, the core of which is an imidazole ring coordinated via nitrogen to the metal Cu.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/oxyhemocyanin.svg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/oxyhemocyanin.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> A search of the crystal structure database for the following sub-structure <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-35-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-35-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-35-768x295.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-35.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> reveals 12 hits, with a range of\u00a0O-O distances ranging from 1.37 to 1.54\u00c5. A histogram of the O-O lengths in the Cu(O-O)Cu sub structure shown below shows quite a distribution amongst the 12 known examples.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-36-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-36-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-36-1024x417.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-36-768x313.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-36.jpg 1130w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of these, one (UTETEU<span id=\"cite_ITEM-26199-0\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-26199-0\">[1]<\/a><\/span>, DOI: <span id=\"cite_ITEM-26199-1\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-26199-1\">[2]<\/a><\/span>) is perhaps the closest to the oxyhemocyanin core, albeit with the imidazole heterocycle replaced by the isomeric pyrazole ring (no Ag or Au examples are known). The overall <sup>2+<\/sup> charge deriving from two Cu<sup>1+<\/sup> units is internally balanced with two 4-coordinate B<sup>1-<\/sup> end caps, and this system was chosen as the starting model for some computational studies.<span id=\"cite_ITEM-26199-2\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-26199-2\">[3]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the crystal structure reveals an O-O distance of 1.531\u00c5; the O=O distance (from crystal structures where it is present) is ~1.24\u00c5 (DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.5517\/cct597h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.5517\/cct597h<\/a>) for neutral (triplet?) oxygen, ~1.50\u00c5 for the dianion O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>2-<\/sup> and 1.32\u00c5 for the monoanion O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>1-<\/sup><span id=\"cite_ITEM-26199-3\" name=\"citation\"><a href=\"#ITEM-26199-3\">[4]<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Computational models were constructed at the \u03c9B97XD\/Def2-SVPP level, FAIR Data DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14469\/hpc\/12584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.14469\/hpc\/12584<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/UTETEU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uteteu-singlet-svpp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uteteu-singlet-svpp.jpg 2285w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uteteu-singlet-svpp-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uteteu-singlet-svpp-1024x633.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uteteu-singlet-svpp-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uteteu-singlet-svpp-1536x950.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/uteteu-singlet-svpp-2048x1266.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2285px) 100vw, 2285px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The computed O-O distance for a singlet state of the complex is shorter than that measured in the crystal structure (1.368 vs 1.531\u00c5). At the better Def2-TZVPP basis set level, the O-O bond length is 1.379\u00c5, still shorter. A model of singlet state oxyhemocyanin itself (Def2-TZVPP) as a di-cation (these charges are balanced by carboxylate anions from the surrounding protein) shows a very similar O-O bond length (1.361\u00c5).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oxyhemocyanin-1024x796.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oxyhemocyanin-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oxyhemocyanin-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oxyhemocyanin-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oxyhemocyanin-1536x1193.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/oxyhemocyanin.jpg 1757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How about the oxyhemocyanin as a triplet state, the same state of isolated oxygen itself? Oxyhemocyanin now has a O-O distance of 1.477\u00c5 (Def2-TZVPP) and a Cu-O distance of 1.972 (1.934 from crystal structure of UTETEU). The UTETEU analogue has a calculated distance of\u00a01.483\u00c5 (crystal structure 1.531\u00c5), which strongly suggests that\u00a0this system exists as a triplet rather than as a singlet spin state (click on image below to view as a 3D model).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onclick=\"jmolApplet([450,450],'load wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/checkpoint-1_sden.xyz;isosurface wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/checkpoint-1_sden-2.jvxl translucent;zoom 130;','c1');\"  class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot57.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The spin density in UTETEU\u00a0is shown above, which indicates that the two unpaired electrons are delocalised on Cu, nitrogen and O atoms, compared to only the oxygen in O<sub>2<\/sub> itself.<\/p>\n<p>So we may conclude from this brief investigation into the structures of this component of &#8220;blue blood&#8221; captures oxygen as a sandwich between two copper atoms (a mode very unlike the iron equivalent in hemoglobin), and moreover that the spin state in this capture retains the triplet motif of gaseous oxygen itself, whilst the spin density of the unpaired electrons is delocalised over both copper, nitrogen and oxygen.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This post has  DOI: 10.14469\/hpc\/13111<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n    <ol class=\"kcite-bibliography csl-bib-body\"><li id=\"ITEM-26199-0\">R. 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Hashimoto, T. Kitagawa, K. Toriumi, K. Tatsumi, and A. Nakamura, \"A new model for dioxygen binding in hemocyanin. Synthesis, characterization, and molecular structure of the .mu.-.eta.2:.eta.2 peroxo dinuclear copper(II) complexes, [Cu(HB(3,5-R2pz)3)]2(O2) (R = isopropyl and Ph)\", <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/i>, vol. 114, pp. 1277-1291, 1992. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/ja00030a025\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/ja00030a025<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"ITEM-26199-3\">H. Seyeda, and M. Jansen, \"A novel access to ionic superoxides and the first accurate determination of the bond distance in O2\u2212\", <i>Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions<\/i>, pp. 875-876, 1998. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/a800952j\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/a800952j<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 26199 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory pigments are metalloproteins that transport O2, the best known being the bright red\/crimson coloured hemoglobin in human blood. The colour derives from Fe2+ at the core of a tetraporphyrin ring. 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