The pH dependence of the mechanism of reaction of hydrogen peroxide with a nonaggregating, non-,R-oxo dimer-forming iron(HI) porphyrin in water ( Contributed by Thomas C. Bruice, March 3, 1986 ABSTRACT The reaction of hydrogen peroxide with 5, 10,15,20-tetrakis(2,6-dimethyl-3-sulfonatophenyl)porphinatoiron(Il) hydrate [(P)Fem(H20)] has been investigated in water between pH 1 and pH 12. The water-soluble (P)Fe"'(H20) neither aggregates nor forms a ,.-oxo dimer. The pH dependence and rate-limiting second-order rate constants (k1y) for oxygen transfer from H202 and H02 to the iron(III) porphyrin were determined by trapping of the resultant higher-valent iron-ox~o porphyrin species with 2,2'-azinodi(3-ethylbenzthiazoline)-6-sulfonate (ABTS). Reactions were monitored spectrophometrically by following the'appearance of the radical ABTS-+. From a plot of the logarithm of the determined second-order rate constants for reaction of hydrogen peroxide with iron(EI) porphyrin vs. pH, the composition of the