Serena DeBeer George

An octahedral coordination complex of iron(VI)

The hexavalent state, considered to be the highest oxidation level accessible for iron, has previously been found only in the tetrahedral ferrate dianion, FeO42–. We report the photochemical synthesis of another Fe(VI) compound, an octahedrally coordinated dication bearing a terminal nitrido ligand. Mössbauer and x-ray absorption spectra, supported by density functional theory, are consistent with the octahedral structure having an FeN triple bond of 1.57 angstroms and a singlet \batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \(\mathrm{d}_{xy}^{2}\) \end{document} ground electronic configuration. The compound is stable at 77 kelvin and yields a high-spin Fe(III) species upon warming.

Prediction of iron K-edge absorption spectra using time-dependent density functional theory.

Iron K-edge X-ray absorption pre-edge features have been calculated using a time-dependent density functional approach. The influence of functional, solvation, and relativistic effects on the calculated energies and intensities has been examined by correlation of the calculated parameters to experimental data on a series of 10 iron model complexes, which span a range of high-spin and low-spin ferrous and ferric complexes in O(h) to T(d) geometries. Both quadrupole and dipole contributions to the spectra have been calculated. We find that good agreement between theory and experiment is obtained by using the BP86 functional with the CP(PPP) basis set on the Fe and TZVP one of the remaining atoms. Inclusion of solvation yields a small improvement in the calculated energies. However, the inclusion of scalar relativistic effects did not yield any improved correlation with experiment. The use of these methods to uniquely assign individual spectral transitions and to examine experimental contributions to backbonding is discussed.

Electronic Structure of Six-Coordinate Iron(III)−Porphyrin NO Adducts: The Elusive Iron(III)−NO(radical) State and Its Influence on the Properties of These Complexes

This paper investigates the interaction between five-coordinate ferric hemes with bound axial imidazole ligands and nitric oxide (NO). The corresponding model complex, [Fe(TPP)(MI)(NO)](BF4) (MI = 1-methylimidazole), is studied using vibrational spectroscopy coupled to normal coordinate analysis and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. In particular, nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy is used to identify the Fe-N(O) stretching vibration. The results reveal the usual Fe(II)-NO(+) ground state for this complex, which is characterized by strong Fe-NO and N-O bonds, with Fe-NO and N-O force constants of 3.92 and 15.18 mdyn/A, respectively. This is related to two strong pi back-bonds between Fe(II) and NO(+). The alternative ground state, low-spin Fe(III)-NO(radical) (S = 0), is then investigated. DFT calculations show that this state exists as a stable minimum at a surprisingly low energy of only approximately 1-3 kcal/mol above the Fe(II)-NO(+) ground state. In addition, the Fe(II)-NO(+) potential energy surface (PES) crosses the low-spin Fe(III)-NO(radical) energy surface at a very small elongation (only 0.05-0.1 A) of the Fe-NO bond from the equilibrium distance. This implies that ferric heme nitrosyls with the latter ground state might exist, particularly with axial thiolate (cysteinate) coordination as observed in P450-type enzymes. Importantly, the low-spin Fe(III)-NO(radical) state has very different properties than the Fe(II)-NO(+) state. Specifically, the Fe-NO and N-O bonds are distinctively weaker, showing Fe-NO and N-O force constants of only 2.26 and 13.72 mdyn/A, respectively. The PES calculations further reveal that the thermodynamic weakness of the Fe-NO bond in ferric heme nitrosyls is an intrinsic feature that relates to the properties of the high-spin Fe(III)-NO(radical) (S = 2) state that appears at low energy and is dissociative with respect to the Fe-NO bond. Altogether, release of NO from a six-coordinate ferric heme nitrosyl requires the system to pass through at least three different electronic states, a process that is remarkably complex and also unprecedented for transition-metal nitrosyls. These findings have implications not only for heme nitrosyls but also for group-8 transition-metal(III) nitrosyls in general.

Isolation and Hydrogenation of a Complex with a Terminal Iridium–Nitrido Bond

An N for Ir: The synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of a late-transition-metal complex with a terminal nitrido ligand and its hydrogenation to the related amido complex are reported (see scheme).

Calibration of scalar relativistic density functional theory for the calculation of sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectra.

Sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy has been proven to be a powerful tool for investigating the electronic structures of sulfur-containing coordination complexes. The full information content of the spectra can be developed through a combination of experiment and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT). In this work, the necessary calibration is carried out for a range of contemporary functionals (BP86, PBE, OLYP, OPBE, B3LYP, PBE0, TPSSh) in a scalar relativistic (0(th) order regular approximation, ZORA) DFT framework. It is shown that with recently developed segmented all-electron scalar relativistic (SARC) basis sets one obtains results that are as good as with large, uncontracted basis sets. The errors in the calibrated transition energies are on the order of 0.1 eV. The error in calibrated intensities is slightly larger, but the calculations are still in excellent agreement with experiment. The behavior of full TD-DFT linear response versus the Tamm-Dancoff approximation has been evaluated with the result that two methods are almost indistinguishable. The inclusion of relativistic effects barely changes the results for first row transition metal complexes, however, the contributions become visible for second-row transition metals and reach a maximum (of an approximately 10% change in the calibration parameters) for third row transition metal species. The protocol developed here is approximately 10 times more efficient than the previously employed protocol, which was based on large, uncontracted basis sets. The calibration strategy followed here may be readily extended to other edges.

Electronic Structure of the [Tris(dithiolene)chromium]z(z=0,1―, 2―, 3―) Electron Transfer Series and Their Manganese(IV) Analogues. An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic and Density Functional Theoretical Study

From the reaction mixture of 3,6-dichlorobenzene-1,2-dithiol, H(2)(Cl(2)-bdt), [CrCl(3)(thf)(3)], and NEt(3) in tetrahydrofuran (thf) in the presence of air, dark green crystals of [N(n-Bu)(4)](2)[Cr(Cl(2)-bdt)(3)] (S = 1) (1) were isolated upon addition of [N(n-Bu)(4)]Br. Oxidation of the AsPh(4)(+) salt of 1 with [Fc]PF(6) yielded microcrystals of [AsPh(4)][Cr(Cl(2)-bdt)(3)] (S = (1)/(2)) (2) whereas the reduction of 1 with sodium amalgam produced light green crystals of [N-(n-Bu)(4)](3)[Cr(Cl(2)-bdt)(3)].thf (S = (3)/(2)) (3). The corresponding maleonitriledithiolato complexes [PPh(4)](2)[Cr(mnt)(3)] (S = 1) (4) and [PPh(4)](3)[Cr(mnt)(3)] (S = (3)/(2)) (5) have been synthesized. Isoelectronic manganese complexes of 3 and 5, namely, [NEt(4)](2)[Mn(Cl(2)-bdt)(3)] (S = (3)/(2)) (6) and [PPh(4)](2)[Mn(mnt)(3)] (S = (3)/(2)) (7), have also been prepared. Complexes 1, 6, and 7 have been characterized by single crystal X-ray crystallography. Complexes 1-7 have been electrochemically studied and their UV-vis and electron paramagnetic resonance spectra (EPR) have been recorded; magnetic properties have been elucidated by temperature-dependent susceptibility measurements. It is shown by chromium K-edge and sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) that the oxidation state of the central Cr ion in each compound is the same (+III, d(3)) and that all one-electron redox processes are ligand-based, involving one, two, or three ligand pi radical monoanions. Complexes 6 and 7 possess a Mn(IV) ion with three dianionic ligands. The results have been corroborated by broken symmetry (BS) density functional theoretical (DFT) calculations by using the B3LYP functional. Time-dependent DFT calculations have been performed to calculate the metal and sulfur K-pre-edges. It is suggested that the neutral complexes [Cr(dithiolene)(3)](0) S = 0 possess octahedral rather than trigonal prismatic CrS(6) polyhedra. Three ligand pi radicals (S(rad) = (1)/(2)) couple antiferromagnetically to the central Cr(III) ion (d(3)) yielding the observed diamagnetic ground state. It is established that the four members of the [Cr(dithiolene)(3)](z) (z = 0, 1-, 2-, 3-) electron transfer series are related by ligand-based one-electron transfer processes; for each of the four members it is shown that they contain a central Cr(III) (d(3)) ion, and the CrS(6) polyhedron is a (distorted) octahedron.

Delocalized Metal–Metal and Metal–Ligand Multiple Bonding in a Linear RuRuN Unit: Elongation of a Traditionally Short RuN Bond

unmatched ability to catalyze reactions that directly functionalize C H bonds. These metal–metal bonded catalysts function by assisting the transfer of a carbene or nitrene group (CR2 or NR, respectively) to an organic substrate. [1] The key intermediates in these C H activation reactions are proposed to have structures such as B (Scheme 1) that feature both a metal–metal bond and a metal–ligand multiple bond. Despite many years of mechanistic study on these reactions, no multiply bonded species, such as B, has, to our knowledge, ever been isolated and characterized. In order to synthesize an M M=E metal–metal/metal–ligand multiply bonded system, we chose to target a Ru Ru N nitrido complex (Scheme 1, C) for which no structural precedents exist. This species could be synthesized from thermal or photolytic decomposition of the appropriate Ru Ru N3 azido precursor. This experimental strategy is attractive because synthetically useful [Ru2(L)4X] compounds (L = ligand) are well known and also because Ru is known to stabilize mononuclear nitrido Ru complexes that form a useful comparison to C. We used the previously reported azido compound [Ru2(dPhf)4N3] (2, dPhf = N,N’-diphenylformamidinate) [6] as a precursor for the photoreaction (Scheme 2), since it has

Fe L- and K-edge XAS of Low-Spin Ferric Corrole: Bonding and Reactivity Relative to Low-Spin Ferric Porphyrin

Corrole is a tetrapyrrolic macrocycle that has one carbon atom less than a porphyrin. The ring contraction reduces the symmetry from D(4h) to C(2v), changes the electronic structure of the heterocycle, and leads to a smaller central cavity with three protons rather than the two of a porphyrin. The differences between ferric corroles and porphyrins lead to a number of differences in reactivity including increased axial ligand lability and a tendency to form 5-coordinate complexes. The electronic structure origin of these differences has been difficult to study experimentally as the dominant porphyrin/corrole pi --> pi* transitions obscure the electronic transitions of the metal. Recently, we have developed a methodology that allows for the interpretation of the multiplet structure of Fe L-edges in terms of differential orbital covalency (i.e., the differences in mixing of the metal d orbitals with the ligand valence orbitals) using a valence bond configuration interaction model. Herein, we apply this methodology, combined with a ligand field analysis of the Fe K pre-edge to a low-spin ferric corrole, and compare it to a low-spin ferric porphyrin. The experimental results combined with DFT calculations show that the contracted corrole is both a stronger sigma donor and a very anisotropic pi donor. These differences decrease the bonding interactions with axial ligands and contribute to the increased axial ligand lability and reactivity of ferric corroles relative to ferric porphyrins.

Fe L-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy determination of differential orbital covalency of siderophore model compounds: electronic structure contributions to high stability constants.

Most bacteria and fungi produce low-molecular-weight iron chelators called siderophores. Although different siderophore structures have been characterized, the iron-binding moieties often contain catecholate or hydroxamate groups. Siderophores function because of their extraordinarily high stability constants (K(STAB) = 10(30)-10(49)) and selectivity for Fe(III), yet the origin of these high stability constants has been difficult to quantify experimentally. Herein, we utilize Fe L-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy to determine the differential orbital covalency (i.e., the differences in the mixing of the metal d-orbitals with ligand valence orbitals) of a series of siderophore model compounds. The results enable evaluation of the electronic structure contributions to their high stability constants in terms of sigma- and pi-donor covalent bonding, ionic bonding, and solvent effects. The results indicate substantial differences in the covalent contributions to stability constants of hydroxamate and catecholate complexes and show that increased sigma as well as pi bonding contributes to the high stability constants of catecholate complexes.

An Electron‐Transfer Series of High‐Valent Chromium Complexes with Redox Non‐Innocent, Non‐Heme Ligands

An investigation of the electronic interplay between ligand radical(s) and a high-valent metal center in the three-member electron-transfer series shown in the picture reveals that, upon oxidation and removal of both ligand radicals, the chromium center becomes reduced from Cr{sup IV} to Cr{sup III} with concomitant formation of an imidyl radical (NR{center_dot}){sup -}.