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Das B, Lee BL, Karlsson EA, Åkermark T, Shatskiy A, Demeshko S, Liao RZ, Laine TM, Haukka M, Zeglio E, Abdel-Magied AF, Siegbahn PEM, Meyer F, Kärkäs MD, Johnston EV, Nordlander E, Åkermark B. Water oxidation catalyzed by molecular di- and nonanuclear Fe complexes: importance of a proper ligand framework. Dalton Trans 2016; 45:13289-93. [DOI: 10.1039/c6dt01554a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The synthesis of two molecular iron complexes, a dinuclear iron(iii,iii) complex and a nonanuclear iron complex, and their use as water oxidation catalysts is described.
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Jung M, Rentschler E. Magnetic and Spectroscopic Study on a New Asymmetric Mixed-valence Mn 2(II,III) Coordination Compound. Z Anorg Allg Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201500551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Arafa WAA, Kärkäs MD, Lee BL, Åkermark T, Liao RZ, Berends HM, Messinger J, Siegbahn PEM, Åkermark B. Dinuclear manganese complexes for water oxidation: evaluation of electronic effects and catalytic activity. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 16:11950-64. [PMID: 24554036 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54800g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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During recent years significant progress has been made towards the realization of a sustainable and carbon-neutral energy economy. One promising approach is photochemical splitting of H2O into O2 and solar fuels, such as H2. However, the bottleneck in such artificial photosynthetic schemes is the H2O oxidation half reaction where more efficient catalysts are required that lower the kinetic barrier for this process. In particular catalysts based on earth-abundant metals are highly attractive compared to catalysts comprised of noble metals. We have now synthesized a library of dinuclear Mn2(II,III) catalysts for H2O oxidation and studied how the incorporation of different substituents affected the electronics and catalytic efficiency. It was found that the incorporation of a distal carboxyl group into the ligand scaffold resulted in a catalyst with increased catalytic activity, most likely because of the fact that the distal group is able to promote proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) from the high-valent Mn species, thus facilitating O-O bond formation.
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- Wael A A Arafa
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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New series of monoamidoxime derivatives displaying versatile antiparasitic activity. Eur J Med Chem 2014; 87:440-53. [PMID: 25282267 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2014.07.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2014] [Revised: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 07/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Following the promising antileishmanial results previously obtained in monoamidoxime series, a new series of derivatives was synthesized using manganese(III) acetate, Wittig reactions and Suzuki-Miyaura cross coupling reactions. Pharmacomodulation in R(1), R(2) or R(3) substituents on the amidoxime structure is shown to influence antiprotozoan activity in vitro: a monosubstituted phenyl group in R1 (32-35) led to an activity against Leishmania donovani promastigotes (32, IC50 = 9.16 μM), whereas a polysubstituted group (36-37) led to an activity against Plasmodium falciparum (36, IC50 = 2.76 μM). Modulating chemical substituents in R(2) and R(3) only influenced the antiplasmodial activity in vitro. This suggests that the amidoxime scaffold has properties that could make it a promising new antiparasitic pharmacophore.
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Hänninen MM, Välivaara J, Mota AJ, Colacio E, Lloret F, Sillanpää R. Ferromagnetic dinuclear mixed-valence Mn(II)/Mn(III) complexes: building blocks for the higher nuclearity complexes. structure, magnetic properties, and density functional theory calculations. Inorg Chem 2013; 52:2228-41. [PMID: 23363337 DOI: 10.1021/ic302731z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A series of six mixed-valence Mn(II)/Mn(III) dinuclear complexes were synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction. The reactivity of the complexes was surveyed, and structures of three additional trinuclear mixed-valence Mn(III)/Mn(II)/Mn(III) species were resolved. The magnetic properties of the complexes were studied in detail both experimentally and theoretically. All dinuclear complexes show ferromagnetic intramolecular interactions, which were justified on the basis of the electronic structures of the Mn(II) and Mn(III) ions. The large Mn(II)-O-Mn(III) bond angle and small distortion of the Mn(II) cation from the ideal square pyramidal geometry were shown to enhance the ferromagnetic interactions since these geometrical conditions seem to favor the orthogonal arrangement of the magnetic orbitals.
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- Mikko M Hänninen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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Berg N, Rajeshkumar T, Taylor SM, Brechin EK, Rajaraman G, Jones LF. What controls the magnetic interaction in bis-μ-alkoxo Mn(III) dimers? A combined experimental and theoretical exploration. Chemistry 2012; 18:5906-18. [PMID: 22461173 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201102828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2011] [Revised: 12/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The synthesis and magnetic characterisation of a series of bis-μ-alkoxide bridged Mn(III) dinuclear complexes of general formula [Mn(III)(2)(μ-OR)(2)(biphen)(2)(ROH)(x)(L)(y)] (where R = Me, Et; H(2) biphen = 2,2'-biphenol and L = terminally bonded N-donor ligand) is described, doubling the literature basis set for this type of complex. Building on these findings we have categorised all known μ-OR bridged Mn(III) dinuclear complexes into one of three classifications with respect to their molecular structures. We have then employed DFT and MO calculations to assess all potential magneto-structural correlations for this class of compound in order to identify the structural requirements for constructing ferromagnetic family members. Our analysis indicates that the most influential parameter which governs the exchange interaction in this class of compounds is the relative orientation of the JT axes of the Mn(III) atoms. A perpendicular orientation of the JT axes leads to a large ferromagnetic contribution to the exchange. These results also suggest that a large ferromagnetic interaction and a large anisotropy are unlikely to co-exist in such structural types.
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- Nelly Berg
- School of Chemistry, NUI Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
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Kärkäs MD, Johnston EV, Karlsson EA, Lee B, Åkermark T, Shariatgorji M, Ilag L, Hansson Ö, Bäckvall J, Åkermark B. Light‐Induced Water Oxidation by a Ru complex Containing a Bio‐Inspired Ligand. Chemistry 2011; 17:7953-9. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201003702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Markus D. Kärkäs
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, Arrhenius Laboratory, 106 91 Stockholm (Sweden), Fax: +46 8 154908
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, Arrhenius Laboratory, 106 91 Stockholm (Sweden), Fax: +46 8 154908
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, Arrhenius Laboratory, 106 91 Stockholm (Sweden), Fax: +46 8 154908
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, Arrhenius Laboratory, 106 91 Stockholm (Sweden), Fax: +46 8 154908
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- Applied Electrochemistry, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 100 44 Stockholm (Sweden)
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- Medical Mass Spectrometry, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, 75123 Uppsala (Sweden)
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, Arrhenius Laboratory, 106 91 Stockholm (Sweden)
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- Biophysics Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 462, 40530 Gothenburg (Sweden)
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, Arrhenius Laboratory, 106 91 Stockholm (Sweden), Fax: +46 8 154908
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, Arrhenius Laboratory, 106 91 Stockholm (Sweden), Fax: +46 8 154908
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Lee BL, Kärkäs MD, Johnston EV, Inge AK, Tran LH, Xu Y, Hansson Ö, Zou X, Åkermark B. Synthesis and Characterization of Oligonuclear Ru, Co and Cu Oxidation Catalysts. Eur J Inorg Chem 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201000758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Martínez-Sánchez J, Bastida R, Macías A, Adams H, Fenton DE, Pérez-Lourido P, Valencia L. Co(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) dinuclear complexes of a polypodal ligand containing phenolate and pyridyl donor groups. Polyhedron 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2010.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Atanasov M, Comba P, Daul CA. Combined Ligand Field and Density Functional Theory Analysis of the Magnetic Anisotropy in Oligonuclear Complexes Based on FeIII−CN−MII Exchange-Coupled Pairs. Inorg Chem 2008; 47:2449-63. [DOI: 10.1021/ic701702x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Mihail Atanasov
- Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Georgi Bontchev Str. Bl.11, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Département de Chimie, Université de Fribourg, Ch. du Musée 9, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Georgi Bontchev Str. Bl.11, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Département de Chimie, Université de Fribourg, Ch. du Musée 9, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Georgi Bontchev Str. Bl.11, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Département de Chimie, Université de Fribourg, Ch. du Musée 9, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
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