Multiplicity spin, structure, and charge of iron-verdohemeoxygenase complex: A comparison study by the DFT method
Abstract
Recently the three-dimensional structure of verdoheme heme oxygenase complex was revealed. However, many parameters of verdoheme heme oxygenase’s complex structure and their role and function on Heme degradation were unknown. In this work the structure of iron verdoheme in complex with heme oxygenase was compared by the density functional theory (DFT)-based B3LYP method using the 6-31G basis set. Many parameters such as charge of verdoheme and iron as central metal, electron distribution, spin multiplicity of the molecule and proximal substituents effects on verdoheme ring stabilization and their arrangement are discussed and compared for twelve different conformations of the molecules to find the most energetically stable states.

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