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Molecular and Electronic Structures, Spectra, Electrochemistry and Anti‐bacterial Efficacy of Novel Heterocyclic Hydrazones of Phenanthrenequinone and Their Nickel(II) Complexes. ChemistrySelect 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202202151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Mukhopadhyay N, Sengupta A, Vijay AK, Lloret F, Mukherjee R. Ni(II) complexes of a new tetradentate NN'N''O picolinoyl-1,2-phenylenediamide-phenolate redox-active ligand at different redox levels. Dalton Trans 2022; 51:9017-9029. [PMID: 35638812 DOI: 10.1039/d2dt01043g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Three square planar nickel(II) complexes of a new asymmetric tetradentate redox-active ligand H3L2 in its deprotonated form, at three redox levels, open-shell semiquinonate(1-) π radical, quinone(0) and closed-shell dianion of its 2-aminophenolate part, have been synthesized. The coordinated ligand provides N (pyridine) and N' and N'' (carboxamide and 1,2-phenylenediamide, respectively) and O (phenolate) donor sites. Cyclic voltammetry on the parent complex [Ni(L2)] 1 in CH2Cl2 established a three-membered electron-transfer series (oxidative response at E1/2 = 0.57 V and reductive response at -0.32 V vs. SCE) consisting of neutral, monocationic and monoanionic [Ni(L2)]z (z = 0, 1+ and 1-). Oxidation of 1 with AgSbF6 affords [Ni(L2)](SbF6) (2) and reduction of 1 with cobaltocene yields [Co(η5-C5H5)2][Ni(L2)] (3). The molecular structures of 1·CH3CN, 2·0.5CH2Cl2 and 3·C6H6 have been determined by X-ray crystallography at 100 K. Characterization by 1H NMR, X-band EPR (gav = 2.006 (solid); 2.008 (CH2Cl2-C6H5CH3 glass); 80 K) and UV-VIS-NIR spectral properties established that 1, 2 and 3 have [NiII{(L2)˙2-}], [NiII{(L2)-}]+/1+ and [NiII{(L2)3-}]-/1- electronic states, respectively. Thus, the redox processes are ligand-centred. While 1 possesses paramagnetic St (total spin) = 1/2, 2 and 3 possess diamagnetic ground-state St = 0. Interestingly, the variable-temperature (2-300 K) magnetic measurement reveals that 1 with the St = 1/2 ground state attains the antiferromagnetic St = 0 state at a very low temperature, due to weak noncovalent interactions via π-π stacking. Density functional theory (DFT) electronic structural calculations at the B3LYP level of theory rationalized the experimental results. In the UV-VIS-NIR spectra, broad absorptions are recorded for 1 and 2 in the range of 800-1600 nm; however, such an absorption is absent for 3. Time-dependent (TD)-DFT calculations provide a very good fit with the experimental spectra and allow us to identify the observed electronic transitions.
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- Narottam Mukhopadhyay
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741 246, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Techno India University, West Bengal, Kolkata 700091, India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741 246, India
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- Departament de Química Inorgànica/Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMOL), Universitat de València, Polígono de la Coma, s/n, 46980 Paterna, València, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India.
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Pashanova KI, Poddel'sky AI, Piskunov AV. Complexes of “late” transition metals of the 3d row based on functionalized o-iminobenzoquinone type ligands: Interrelation of molecular and electronic structure, magnetic behaviour. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.214399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Ovcharenko VI, Kuznetsova OV. New method for the synthesis of heterospin metal complexes with nitroxides. RUSSIAN CHEMICAL REVIEWS 2020. [DOI: 10.1070/rcr4981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Mukherjee R. Assigning Ligand Redox Levels in Complexes of 2-Aminophenolates: Structural Signatures. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:12961-12977. [PMID: 32881491 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The purpose of this Viewpoint is to provide a broad-ranging update of advances in the coordination chemistry of redox-active (noninnocent) 2-aminophenolates, with emphasis on two ligand backbone structural parameters, the average of C-O and C-N (C-O/N) bond distances and Δa values, signifying the degree of bond-length alternation in the six-membered ring, in order to identify the redox level of the coordinated ligands. In the absence of magnetic, spectroscopic, and redox results, it has been established that it is possible to assign the electronic ground state of a coordination complex of 2-aminophenolates with consideration of charge, metal-ligand bond distances, and two very promising ligand backbone structural parameters. From a closer look at the sensitive ligand backbone metrical parameters of a diversified group of about 120 transition-metal complexes, a few very useful generalizations have been made.
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Thorarinsdottir AE, Bjornsson R, Harris TD. Insensitivity of Magnetic Coupling to Ligand Substitution in a Series of Tetraoxolene Radical-Bridged Fe 2 Complexes. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:4634-4649. [PMID: 32196317 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The elucidation of magnetostructural correlations between bridging ligand substitution and strength of magnetic coupling is essential to the development of high-temperature molecule-based magnetic materials. Toward this end, we report the series of tetraoxolene-bridged FeII2 complexes [(Me3TPyA)2Fe2(RL)]n+ (Me3TPyA = tris(6-methyl-2-pyridylmethyl)amine; n = 2: OMeLH2 = 3,6-dimethoxy-2,5-dihydroxo-1,4-benzoquinone, ClLH2 = 3,6-dichloro-2,5-dihydroxo-1,4-benzoquinone, Na2[NO2L] = sodium 3,6-dinitro-2,5-dihydroxo-1,4-benzoquinone; n = 4: SMe2L = 3,6-bis(dimethylsulfonium)-2,5-dihydroxo-1,4-benzoquinone diylide) and their one-electron-reduced analogues. Variable-temperature dc magnetic susceptibility data reveal the presence of weak ferromagnetic superexchange between FeII centers in the oxidized species, with exchange constants of J = +1.2(2) (R = OMe, Cl) and +0.3(1) (R = NO2, SMe2) cm-1. In contrast, X-ray diffraction, cyclic voltammetry, and Mössbauer spectroscopy establish a ligand-centered radical in the reduced complexes. Magnetic measurements for the radical-bridged species reveal the presence of strong antiferromagnetic metal-radical coupling, with J = -57(10), -60(7), -58(6), and -65(8) cm-1 for R = OMe, Cl, NO2, and SMe2, respectively. The minimal effects of substituents in the 3- and 6-positions of RLx-• on the magnetic coupling strength is understood through electronic structure calculations, which show negligible spin density on the substituents and associated C atoms of the ring. Finally, the radical-bridged complexes are single-molecule magnets, with relaxation barriers of Ueff = 50(1), 41(1), 38(1), and 33(1) cm-1 for R = OMe, Cl, NO2, and SMe2, respectively. Taken together, these results provide the first examination of how bridging ligand substitution influences magnetic coupling in semiquinoid-bridged compounds, and they establish design criteria for the synthesis of semiquinoid-based molecules and materials.
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- Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr 45470, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston 60208, Illinois, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720, California, United States
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Rajput A, Sharma AK, Barman SK, Lloret F, Mukherjee R. Six-coordinate [Co III(L) 2] z (z = 1-, 0, 1+) complexes of an azo-appended o-aminophenolate in amidate(2-) and iminosemiquinonate π-radical (1-) redox-levels: the existence of valence-tautomerism. Dalton Trans 2018; 47:17086-17101. [PMID: 30465680 DOI: 10.1039/c8dt03257b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Aerobic reaction of the ligand H2L1, 2-(2-phenylazo)-anilino-4,6-di-tert-butylphenol, CoCl2·6H2O and Et3N in MeOH under refluxing conditions produces, after work-up and recrystallization, black crystals of [Co(L1)2] (1). When examined by cyclic voltammetry, 1 displays in CH2Cl2 three one-electron redox responses: two oxidative, E11/2 = 0.30 V (peak-to-peak separation, ΔEp = 100 mV) and E21/2 = 1.04 V (ΔEp = 120 mV), and one reductive E1/2 = -0.27 V (ΔEp = 120 mV) vs. SCE. Consequently, 1 is chemically oxidized by 1 equiv. of [FeIII(η5-C5H5)2][PF6], affording the isolation of deep purple crystals of [Co(L1)2][PF6]·2CH2Cl2 (2), and one-electron reduction with [CoII(η5-C5H5)2] yielded bluish-black crystals of [CoIII(η5-C5H5)2][Co(L1)2]·MeCN (3). A solid sample of 1 exhibits temperature-independent (50-300 K) magnetism, revealing the presence of a free radical (S = 1/2), which exhibits an isotropic EPR signal (g = 2.003) at 298 K and at 77 K an eight-line feature characteristic of hyperfine-interaction of the radical with the Co (I = 7/2) nucleus. Based on X-ray structural parameters of 1-3 at 100 K, magnetic and EPR spectral behaviour of 1, and variable-temperature (233-313 K) 1H NMR spectral features of 1-3 and 13C NMR spectra at 298 K of 2 and 3 in CDCl3 point to the electronic structure of the complexes as either [CoIII{(LAP)2-}{(LISQ)}˙-] or [CoIII{(L1)2}˙3-] (delocalized nature favours the latter description) (1), [CoIII{(LISQ)˙-}2][PF6]·2CH2Cl2 (2) and [CoIII(η5-C5H5)2][CoIII{(LAP)2-}2]·MeCN (3) [(LAP)2- and (LISQ)˙- represent the redox-level of coordinated ligands o-amidophenolate(2-) ion and o-iminobenzosemiquinonate(1-) π-radical ion, respectively]. Notably, all the observed redox processes are ligand-centred. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that six-coordinate complexes of a common tridentate o-aminophenolate-based ligand have been structurally characterized for the parent 1, its monocation 2 and the monoanion 3 counterparts. Temperature-dependent 1H NMR spectra reveal the existence of valence-tautomeric equilibria in 1-3. Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP-level of theory corroborate the electronic structural assignment of 1-3 from experimental data. The origins of the observed UV-VIS-NIR absorptions for 1-3 have been assigned, based on time-dependent (TD)-DFT calculations.
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- Amit Rajput
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016, India.
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Piskunov AV, Pashanova KI, Bogomyakov AS, Smolyaninov IV, Starikov AG, Fukin GK. Cobalt complexes with hemilabile o-iminobenzoquinonate ligands: a novel example of redox-induced electron transfer. Dalton Trans 2018; 47:15049-15060. [PMID: 30303221 DOI: 10.1039/c8dt02733a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [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 tetracoordinated square-planar CoIII complex (imSQC(O)Ph)CoIII(APC(O)Ph) (1) bearing a radical anion and the closed-shell o-amidophenolate forms of the functionalized o-aminophenol H2LC(O)Ph were synthesized. The intermediate spin state (SCo = 1) CoIII center was found for compound 1. The cyclic voltammogram of derivative 1 contains two oxidative processes and one reductive redox process as well as an additional multi-electron wave at high negative potentials above -2 V, which can involve both the ligand and metal center. One-electron oxidation of 1 by silver triflate produces the [(imSQC(O)Ph)CoII(imQC(O)Ph)]OTf·2toluene (2) derivative with the trigonal prismatic coordination environment of the metal arising from the additional coordination of -C(O)Ph hemilabile groups. This is a first example of a trigonal prismatic coordination polyhedron in cobalt-based complexes featuring o-iminobenzoquinone ligands. The trigonal prismatic geometry achieved by the unique flexibility of the ligand allows metal-to-ligand redox-induced electron transfer (RIET). Chemical oxidation of complex 1 promotes the reduction of CoIII to CoII in compound 2 due to the redox-active nature of o-iminobenzoquinonate ligands. Remarkably, this is the first example of RIET in cobalt-based derivatives with this type of ligand. The oxidative states of the ligands and cobalt ion in both complexes were unequivocally established according to the X-ray data collection by using the utility of "metric oxidation state" (MOS). The spin states of the metal centers were unambiguously determined by density functional theory. The strong antiferromagnetic exchange via metal-ligand interactions is dominant in compounds 1 and 2, giving the doublet (S = 1/2) and triplet (S = 1) ground spin state, respectively.
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- Alexandr V Piskunov
- G.A. Razuvaev Institute of Organometallic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Organoelement Compounds, 49 Tropinina Street, 603137, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation.
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Piskunov AV, Pashanova KI, Ershova IV, Bogomyakov AS, Smolyaninov IV, Starikov AG, Kubrin SP, Fukin GK. Pentacoordinated cloro-bis-o-iminosemiquinonato Mn and Fe complexes. J Mol Struct 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2018.03.091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Ovcharenko V, Kuznetsova O, Fursova E, Letyagin G, Romanenko G, Bogomyakov A, Zueva E. Simultaneous Introduction of Two Nitroxides in the Reaction: A New Approach to the Synthesis of Heterospin Complexes. Inorg Chem 2017; 56:14567-14576. [PMID: 29131644 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A new approach to the synthesis of multispin compounds has been developed, namely, the simultaneous introduction of two different stable nitroxides (nitronyl nitroxide and imino nitroxide) in a reaction with a metal ion. An important characteristic of the new method is that nitronyl nitroxide and imino nitroxide introduced in the reaction with the metal are the products of different series; i.e., the nitronyl nitroxide molecule differs from the imino nitroxide molecule not only in one additional oxygen molecule per molecule but also in another substituent in the side chain of the organic paramagnet. This possibility was demonstrated on the synthesis of multispin compounds [Ni2(A1)(L2)2(Piv)(MeOH)], [Ni2(L1)(A2)2(Piv)(H2O)], [Co2(A1)(L2)2(Piv)(MeOH)], and [Co3(L1)2(A2)2(Piv)2], in which Ln and An differ in the substituent in the phenyl ring. The number of multispin compounds that can be synthesized by the proposed method is almost unlimited. The heterospin complexes of transition metals with coordinated nitronyl nitroxide and imino nitroxide in one molecule contain energy-different exchange interaction channels that differ in both magnitude and sign, as confirmed by the quantum-chemical analysis of exchange channels in [Ni(B1)(B2)2](NO3)2. The series of mixed-radical complexes may include compounds with nontrivial magnetic properties such as [Co2(A1)(L2)2(Piv)(MeOH)], which experiences bulk magnetic ordering below 3.5 K.
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- Victor Ovcharenko
- International Tomography Center , Institutskaya Street 3a, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- International Tomography Center , Institutskaya Street 3a, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- International Tomography Center , Institutskaya Street 3a, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- International Tomography Center , Institutskaya Street 3a, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- International Tomography Center , Institutskaya Street 3a, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- International Tomography Center , Institutskaya Street 3a, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation
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- Kazan National Research Technological University , 68 K. Marx Street, Kazan 420015, Russian Federation
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Jacquet J, Cheaib K, Ren Y, Vezin H, Orio M, Blanchard S, Fensterbank L, Desage-El Murr M. Circumventing Intrinsic Metal Reactivity: Radical Generation with Redox-Active Ligands. Chemistry 2017; 23:15030-15034. [PMID: 28873243 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Nickel complexes have gained sustained attention as efficient catalysts in cross-coupling reactions and co-catalysts in dual systems due to their ability to react with radical species. Central to this reactivity is nickel's propensity to shuttle through several accessible redox states from Ni0 to NiIV . Here, we report the catalytic generation of trifluoromethyl radicals from a nickel complex bearing redox-active iminosemiquinone ligands. This unprecedented reactivity is enabled through ligand-based oxidation performing electron transfer to an electrophilic CF3+ source while the nickel oxidation state is preserved. Additionally, extension of this reactivity to a copper complex bearing a single redox equivalent is reported, thus providing a unified reactivity scheme. These results open new pathways in radical chemistry with redox-active ligands.
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- Jérémy Jacquet
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, Université Paris 06, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, Université Paris 06, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, Université Paris 06, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, France
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- Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, UMR CNRS 8516, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille iSm2 UMR 7313, 13397, Marseille cedex 20, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, Université Paris 06, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, Université Paris 06, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, Université Paris 06, UMR CNRS 8232, Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, France.,Institut de Chimie, Université de Strasbourg, 1 rue Blaise Pascal, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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Interacting metal and ligand based open shell systems: Challenges for experiment and theory. Coord Chem Rev 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2016.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Piskunov AV, Maleeva AV, Fukin GK, Cherkasov VK, Bogomyakov AS. Pentacoordinated bis- o -benzosemiquinonato zinc complexes with different N-ligands: Structure and magnetic properties. Inorganica Chim Acta 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2016.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ali A, Dhar D, Barman SK, Lloret F, Mukherjee R. Nickel(II) Complex of a Hexadentate Ligand with Two o-Iminosemiquinonato(1-) π-Radical Units and Its Monocation and Dication. Inorg Chem 2016; 55:5759-71. [PMID: 27232547 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Aerobic reaction of a hexadentate redox-active o-aminophenol-based ligand, H4L(3) = N,N'-bis(2-hydroxy-3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)-2,2'-diamino(diphenyldithio)-ethane, in CH3OH with Ni(II)(O2CCH3)2·4H2O and Et3N afforded isolation of a reddish-brown crystalline solid [Ni(L(3))] 1. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) experiment exhibits two oxidative responses at E1/2 = 0.09 and 0.53 V vs SCE (saturated calomel electrode). Chemical oxidation of 1 in air by [Fe(III)(η(5)-C5H5)2][PF6] and AgBF4 in CH2Cl2 led to the isolation of one-electron oxidized species [1](1+) as purple [1][PF6]·CH2Cl2 and two-electron oxidized species [1](2+) as dark purple [1][BF4]2·CH2Cl2, respectively. X-ray crystallographic analysis at 100(2) K unambiguously established that the ligand is present in [Ni(II){(L(ISQ)O,N)(•-)}{(L(ISQ)O,N)(•-)}{(LS,S)(0)}] 1, [Ni(II){(L(IBQ)O,N)(0)}{(L(ISQ)O,N)(•-)}{(LS,S)(0)}][PF6]·CH2Cl2, and [Ni(II){(L(IBQ)O,N)(0)}{(L(IBQ)O,N)(0)}{(LS,S)(0)}][BF4]2·CH2Cl2, as monoanionic o-iminosemiquinonate(1-) π-radical (Srad = 1/2) (L(ISQ))(•-) and neutral o-iminoquinone (L(IBQ))(0) redox-levels. Complexes 1, [1][PF6]·CH2Cl2, and [1][BF4]2·CH2Cl2 possess an S = 2, 3/2, and 1 ground-state, respectively, established by temperature-dependent (2-300 K) magnetic behavior of 1 and [1][PF6]·CH2Cl2, and a μeff value of [1][BF4]2·CH2Cl2 at 300 K. Both 1 and [1][PF6]·CH2Cl2 exhibit ferromagnetic exchange-coupling between the two electrons of Ni(II) and two/one ligand π-radicals, respectively. The redox processes are shown to be ligand-based. Spectroscopic and redox properties, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the CAM-B3LYP-level of theory adequately describe the electronic structure of 1, [1](1+), and [1](2+). The observed UV-vis-NIR absorptions for 1, [1][PF6]·CH2Cl2, and [1][BF4]2·CH2Cl2 have been assigned, based on time-dependent (TD)-DFT calculations.
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- Akram Ali
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur , Kanpur 208 016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur , Kanpur 208 016, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur , Kanpur 208 016, India.,Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata , Mohanpur 741 246, India
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- Departament de Quımíca, Inorgànica/Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMOL), Universitat de Valeńcia , Polígono de la Coma, s/n, 46980-Paterna, València, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur , Kanpur 208 016, India.,Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata , Mohanpur 741 246, India
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