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Jesse KA, Anderson JS. Leveraging ligand-based proton and electron transfer for aerobic reactivity and catalysis. Chem Sci 2024:d4sc03896g. [PMID: 39386904 PMCID: PMC11460188 DOI: 10.1039/d4sc03896g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2024] [Accepted: 09/08/2024] [Indexed: 10/12/2024] Open
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While O2 is an abundant, benign, and thermodynamically potent oxidant, it is also kinetically inert. This frequently limits its use in synthetic transformations. Correspondingly, direct aerobic reactivity with O2 often requires comparatively harsh or forcing conditions to overcome this kinetic barrier. Forcing conditions limit product selectivity and can lead to over oxidation. Alternatively, O2 can be activated by a catalyst to facilitate oxidative reactivity, and there are a variety of sophisticated examples where transition metal catalysts facilitate aerobic reactivity. Many efforts have focused on using metal-ligand cooperativity to facilitate the movement of protons and electrons for O2 activation. This approach is inspired by enzyme active sites, which frequently use the secondary sphere to facilitate both the activation of O2 and the oxidation of substrates. However, there has only recently been a focus on harnessing metal-ligand cooperativity for aerobic reactivity and, especially, catalysis. This perspective will discuss recent efforts to channel metal-ligand cooperativity for the activation of O2, the generation and stabilization of reactive metal-oxygen intermediates, and oxidative reactivity and catalysis. While significant progress has been made in this area, there are still challenges to overcome and opportunities for the development of efficient catalysts which leverage this biomimetic strategy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kate A Jesse
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos NM 87545 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago Chicago Illinois 60637 USA
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Contento I, Lamparelli DH, Buonerba A, Grassi A, Capacchione C. New dinuclear chromium complexes supported by thioether-triphenolate ligands as active catalysts for the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides. J CO2 UTIL 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2022.102276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The nickel(II) complex [ON(H)O]Ni(PPh3) ([ON(H)O]2- = bis(3,5-di-tert-butyl-2-phenoxy)amine), bearing a protonated redox-active ligand, was examined for its ability to serve as a hydrogen atom (H•) and hydride (H-) donor. Deprotonation of [ON(H)O]Ni(PPh3) afforded the square-planar anion {[ONOcat]Ni(PPh3)}1-, whereas hydrogen atom transfer from [ON(H)O]Ni(PPh3) to TEMPO• in the presence of added PPh3 afforded five-coordinate [ONO]Ni(PPh3)2 that has been structurally characterized. In solution, this five-coordinate complex exists in equilibrium with four-coordinate [ONO]Ni(PPh3), and this ligand exchange equilibrium correlates with a valence tautomerization between the redox-active ligand and the nickel center. Abstraction of a hydride from [ON(H)O]Ni(PPh3) in the presence of PPh3 afforded the octahedral complex, [ONOq]Ni(OTf)(PPh3)2, which was characterized as an S = 1, nickel(II) complex. Bond dissociation free energy (BDFE) and hydricity (ΔG°H-) measurements benchmark the thermodynamic propensity of this complex to participate in ligand-centered H• and H- transfer reactions.
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- Bronte J Charette
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92677-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92677-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92677-2025, United States
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Charette BJ, Ziller JW, Heyduk AF. Metal-Ion Influence on Ligand-Centered Hydrogen-Atom Transfer. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:1579-1589. [PMID: 33434022 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The ligand-centered hydrogen-atom-transfer (HAT) reactivity was examined for a family of group 10 metal complexes containing a tridentate pincer ligand derived from bis(2-mercapto-p-tolyl)amine, [SNS]H3. Six new metal complexes of palladium and platinum were synthesized with the [SNS] ligand platform in different redox and protonation states to complete the group 10 series previously reported with nickel. The HAT reactivity was examined for this family of nickel, palladium, and platinum complexes to determine the impact of a metal ion on the ligand-centered reactivity. Thermodynamic measurements revealed that N-H bond dissociation free energies increased by approximately 10 kcal mol-1 along the series Ni < Pd < Pt driven by changes to both the redox potential and pKa of the ligand. Kinetic analyses for all three metal complexes suggest that the barrier to the HAT reactivity is primarily entropic rather than enthalpic for this system.
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- Bronte J Charette
- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine (UCI), Irvine, California 92677-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine (UCI), Irvine, California 92677-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine (UCI), Irvine, California 92677-2025, United States
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McNeece AJ, Jesse KA, Xie J, Filatov AS, Anderson JS. Generation and Oxidative Reactivity of a Ni(II) Superoxo Complex via Ligand-Based Redox Non-Innocence. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:10824-10832. [PMID: 32429663 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Metal ligand cooperativity is a powerful strategy in transition metal chemistry. This type of mechanism for the activation of O2 is best exemplified by heme centers in biological systems. While aerobic oxidations with Fe and Cu are well precedented, Ni-based oxidations are frequently less common due to less-accessible metal-based redox couples. Some Ni enzymes utilize special ligand environments for tuning the Ni(II)/(III) redox couple such as strongly donating thiolates in Ni superoxide dismutase. A recently characterized example of a Ni-containing protein, however, suggests an alternative strategy for mediating redox chemistry with Ni by utilizing ligand-based reducing equivalents to enable oxygen binding. While this mechanism has little synthetic precedent, we show here that Ni complexes of the redox-active ligand tBu,TolDHP (tBu,TolDHP = 2,5-bis((2-t-butylhydrazono)(p-tolyl)methyl)-pyrrole) activate O2 to generate a Ni(II) superoxo complex via ligand-based electron transfer. This superoxo complex is competent for stoichiometric oxidation chemistry with alcohols and hydrocarbons. This work demonstrates that coupling ligand-based redox chemistry with functionally redox-inactive Ni centers enables oxidative transformations more commonly mediated by metals such as Fe and Cu.
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- Andrew J McNeece
- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Mashima K. Redox-Active α-Diimine Complexes of Early Transition Metals: From Bonding to Catalysis. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2020. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20200056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Kazushi Mashima
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Jesse KA, Filatov AS, Xie J, Anderson JS. Neocuproine as a Redox-Active Ligand Platform on Iron and Cobalt. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:9057-9066. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Kate A. Jesse
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Morris TW, Huerfano IJ, Wang M, Wisman DL, Cabelof AC, Din NU, Tempas CD, Le D, Polezhaev AV, Rahman TS, Caulton KG, Tait SL. Multi-electron Reduction Capacity and Multiple Binding Pockets in Metal-Organic Redox Assembly at Surfaces. Chemistry 2019; 25:5565-5573. [PMID: 30746807 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201900002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2019] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Metal-ligand complexation at surfaces utilizing redox-active ligands has been demonstrated to produce uniform single-site metals centers in regular coordination networks. Two key design considerations are the electron storage capacity of the ligand and the metal-coordinating pockets on the ligand. In an effort to move toward greater complexity in the systems, particularly dinuclear metal centers, we designed and synthesized tetraethyltetra-aza-anthraquinone, TAAQ, which has superior electron storage capabilities and four ligating pockets in a diverging geometry. Cyclic voltammetry studies of the free ligand demonstrate its ability to undergo up to a four-electron reduction. Solution-based studies with an analogous ligand, diethyldi-aza-anthraquinone, demonstrate these redox capabilities in a molecular environment. Surface studies conducted on the Au(111) surface demonstrate TAAQ's ability to complex with Fe. This complexation can be observed at different stoichiometric ratios of Fe:TAAQ as Fe 2p core level shifts in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Scanning tunneling microscopy experiments confirmed the formation of metal-organic coordination structures. The striking feature of these structures is their irregularity, which indicates the presence of multiple local binding motifs. Density functional theory calculations confirm several energetically accessible Fe:TAAQ isomers, which accounts for the non-uniformity of the chains.
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- Tobias W Morris
- Departments of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA
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- Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA.,NAVSEA Crane, Crane, IN, 47522, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA
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- Departments of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA.,Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401, USA
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Rajput A, Saha A, Barman SK, Lloret F, Mukherjee R. [Cu II{(L ISQ)˙ -} 2] (H 2L: thioether-appended o-aminophenol ligand) monocation triggers change in donor site from N 2O 2 to N 2O (2)S and valence-tautomerism. Dalton Trans 2019; 48:1795-1813. [PMID: 30644480 DOI: 10.1039/c8dt03778g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Using a potentially tridentate o-aminophenol-based redox-active ligand H2L1 (2-[2-(benzylthio)phenylamino]-4,6-di-tert-butylphenol) in its deprotonated form, [Cu(L1)2] has been synthesized and crystallized as [CuII(L1)2]·CH2Cl2 (1·CH2Cl2). A cyclic voltammetry experiment (in CH2Cl2; V vs. SCE (saturated calomel electrode)) on 1·CH2Cl2 exhibits two oxidative (E = 0.20 V (peak-to-peak separation, ΔEp = 100 mV) and E = 0.90 V (ΔEp = 140 mV)) and two reductive (E = -0.52 V (ΔEp = 110 mV) and E = -0.92 V (ΔEp = 120 mV)) responses. Upon oxidation using a stoichiometric amount of [FeIII(η5-C5H5)2](PF6), 1·CH2Cl2 yielded [Cu(L1)2](PF6) (2). Structural analysis (100 K) reveals that 1·CH2Cl2 is a four-coordinate bis(iminosemiquinonato)copper(ii) complex (CuN2O2 coordination), and that the thioethers remain uncoordinated. The twisted geometry of 1 (distorted tetrahedral) results in considerable changes in the electronic structure, compared to well-known square-planar analogues. Crystallographic analysis of 2 both at 100 K and at 293 K reveals that it is effectively a four-coordinate complex with a CuN2OS coordination; however, a substantial interaction with the other phenolate O is observed. The metal-ligand bond distances and metric parameters associated with the o-aminophenolate rings indicate a valence-tautomeric (VT) equilibrium involving monocationic (iminosemiquinonato)(iminoquinone)copper(ii) and bis(iminoquinone)copper(i). Complex 1·CH2Cl2 is a three-spin system and a magnetic study (4-300 K) established that it has a S = 1/2 ground-state, owing to the strong antiferromagnetic coupling between the unpaired spin of the copper(ii) and the iminosemiquinonate(1-) π-radical anion. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectral studies corroborate this result. Complex 2 is diamagnetic and the existence of VT in 2 was probed using variable-temperature (248-328 K) 1H NMR and EPR (100-298 K) spectral measurements and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic studies at 298 K. Remarkably, modification of the well-studied 2-anilino-4,6-di-tert-butylphenol by incorporation of a benzylthioether arm leads to the occurrence of VT in 2. The electronic structure of 1·CH2Cl2 and 2 has been assigned using density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP-D3 level of theory. Time-dependent (TD)-DFT calculations have been performed to elucidate the origin of the observed UV-VIS-NIR absorptions.
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- Amit Rajput
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016, India. and Department of Basic and Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, G. D. Goenka University, Sohna Road, Gurugram 122 103, Haryana, India
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur 741 246, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016, 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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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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