Abstract

Properties on electronic structure in an Fe-porphyrin (FeP) complex with the proximal imidazole (Im) ligand, a model of active moiety of hemeprotein for analyzing bonding- and separating-processes of dioxygen molecule (O2), were studied by means of spin-polarized density functional theory. It was found that in the ionized model, the bonding stability of O2 was reduced by one order in energy compared with that of the neutral model, implying existence of the state having a large fluctuation between bonded and separated configurations. We proposed a microscopic scenario on O2 dissociation phenomenon in terms of spin-crossover and allosteric mechanism.

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