The difference in electrostatics and reduction potentials between manganese ortho-tetrakis(N-ethylpyridinium-2-yl)porphyrin (MnTE-2-PyP) and manganese meta-tetrakis(N-ethylpyridinium-2-yl)porphyrin (MnTE-3-PyP) is a challenging topic, particularly because of the high likelihood for their clinical development. Hence, a detailed study of the protolytic and electrochemical speciation of MnII–IVTE-2-PyP and MnII-IVTE-3-PyP in a broad pH range has been performed using the combined spectrophotometric and potentiometric methods. The results reveal that in aqueous solutions within the pH range ~2–13 the following species exist: (H2O)MnIITE-m-PyP4+, (HO)MnIITE-m-PyP3+, (H2O)2MnIIITE-m-PyP5+, (H2O)(HO)MnIIITE-m-PyP4+, (H2O)(O=)MnIIITE-m-PyP3+, (H2O)(O=)MnIVTE-m-PyP4+ and (HO)(O=)MnIVTE-m-PyP3+ (m = 2, 3). All the protolytic equilibrium constants that include the accessible species as well as the thermodynamic parameters for each particular protolytic equilibrium have been determined. The corresponding formal reduction potentials related to the reduction of the above species and the thermodynamic parameters describing the accessible reduction couples were calculated as well.

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Abstract. Kinetics and mechanisms of the oxidation of methoxyurea and N-methylhydroxyurea were studied in neutral and basic aqueous solutions. The obtained pH dependences of the oxidation rates indicate that for both hydroxyureas the reactive species are the deprotonated ones. The second order rate constants, the activation enthalpies and the activation entropies for the reactions of methoxyurea (O-methylhydroxyurea) and N-methylhydroxyurea anions with Fe(CN) 6 3− at 25 o C, I = 2 mol dm −3 (NaClO 4 ) were determined as (5.06 ± 0.01)  10 2 mol −1 dm 3 s −1 , (1.92 ± 0.02)  10 4 mol −1 dm 3 s −1 , 27 ± 1 kJ mol, and 107 ± 4 J mol −1 K −1 , respectively. The pK a value of methoxyurea at 25 o C and 2 mol dm −3 ionic strength was determined kinetically as 12.7 ± 0.1 and the thermodynamic parameters for the deprotonation reaction were determined as Δ a H = 43 ± 1 kJ mol, and. When the kinetic results are compared with the data reported for hydroxyurea, an inverse dependence of the rate constants on the pK a of the hydroxyurea derivatives at 25 o C is observed. Such unexpected behaviour has been explained by the ab initio calculations and NBO analysis of HOMOs for all three hydroxyureates. (doi: 10.5562/cca1799)