Abstract
A kind of new functional surfactant with substituted long alkyl pyridine was synthesized and its Ce(IV), Zn(II), and Cu(II) complexes were used as hydrolytic metalloenzyme models. The hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl picolinate (PNPP) catalyzed by the metallomicelles in CTAB micellar solution was investigated at different pH and 30°C. Kinetic parameters of catalytic hydrolysis were obtained by employing the ternary complex kinetic model for metallomicellar catalysis. Effects of the structure of ligands and microenvironment of reaction on the hydrolytic reaction of PNPP have been discussed in detail. From the apparent rate constants (k obsd ) of the catalytic hydrolysis of PNPP, it can be seen that the catalytic effect of complexes of ligand L2 with long hydrocarbon chain was stronger than that of ligand L1, and complex CuL2 showed higher catalytic efficacy on the hydrolytic reaction than those of ZnL2 and CeL2. However, experiment results in this article showed that ZnL2 and CeL2 are more susceptible to environment than CuL2. The catalytic mechanism was proposed, and the possibly active species for the catalytic hydrolysis of PNPP was determined to be the hydroxylated metal complex.
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