† Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, 128, Section 2, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
§ School of Chemical Engineering and Physical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar-Delhi G. T. Road (NH-1), Phagwara, Punjab India 144411
∥ Department of Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung 402, Taiwan
⊥ Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
# Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
○ Noyes Laboratory, 127-72, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
Chem. Rev., Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00624
Publication Date (Web): February 16, 2017
Copyright © 2017 American Chemical Society
Methane monooxygenases (MMOs) mediate the facile conversion of methane into methanol in methanotrophic bacteria with high efficiency under ambient conditions. Because the selective oxidation of methane is extremely challenging, there is considerable interest in understanding how these enzymes carry out this difficult chemistry. The impetus of these efforts is to learn from the microbes to develop a biomimetic catalyst to accomplish the same chemical transformation. Here, we review the progress made over the past two to three decades toward delineating the structures and functions of the catalytic sites in two MMOs: soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) and particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO). sMMO is a water-soluble three-component protein complex consisting of a hydroxylase with a nonheme diiron catalytic site; pMMO is a membrane-bound metalloenzyme with a unique tricopper cluster as the site of hydroxylation. The metal cluster in each of these MMOs harnesses O2 to functionalize the C—H bond using different chemistry. We highlight some of the common basic principles that they share. Finally, the development of functional models of the catalytic sites of MMOs is described. These efforts have culminated in the first successful biomimetic catalyst capable of efficient methane oxidation without overoxidation at room temperature.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00624
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00624
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