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Magnetometric Characterization of Intermediates in the Solid-State Electrochemistry of Redox-Active Metal-Organic Frameworks
Published on: June 9, 2023
Low-lying electronic states of the ferrous high-spin (S=2) heme in deoxy-Mb and deoxy-Hb studied by highly-sensitive
Hiroshi Hori1, Haruhiko Yashiro, Kenta Ninomiya
1Center for Quantum Science and Technology under Extreme Conditions (KYOKUGEN), Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. hori@mag.cqst.osaka-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
The low-lying electronic states of the ferrous high-spin heme in deoxy-myoglobin (deoxy-Mb) and deoxy-hemoglobin (deoxy-Hb) were probed by multi-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (MFEPR) spectroscopy. An unexpected broad EPR signal was measured at the zero magnetic field using cavity resonators at 34-122 GHz that could not be simulated using any parameter sets for the S=2 spin Hamiltonian assuming spin quintet states in the (5)B(2) ground state. Furthermore, we have observed novel, broad EPR signals measured at 70-220 GHz and 1.5K using a single pass transmission probe. These signals are attributed to the ferrous high-spin heme in deoxy-Mb and deoxy-Hb. The resonant peaks shifted to a higher magnetic field with increasing frequency. The energy level separation between the ground singlet and the first excited state at the zero magnetic field was directly estimated to be 3.5 cm(-1) for deoxy-Hb. For deoxy-Mb, the first two excited singlet states are separated by 3.3 cm(-1) and 6.5 cm(-1), respectively, from the ground state. The energy gap at the zero magnetic field is directly derived from our MFEPR for deoxy-Mb and deoxy-Hb and strongly supports the theoretical analyses based on the Mössbauer and magnetic circular dichroism experiments.
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