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Yang Y, Yuwono JA, Whittaker T, Ibáñez MM, Wang B, Kim C, Borisevich AY, Chua S, Prada JP, Wang X, Autran PO, Unocic RR, Dai L, Holewinski A, Bedford NM. Double Hydroxide Nanocatalysts for Urea Electrooxidation Engineered toward Environmentally Benign Products. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2403187. [PMID: 39003619 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202403187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2024] [Revised: 06/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/15/2024]
Abstract
Recent advancements in the electrochemical urea oxidation reaction (UOR) present promising avenues for wastewater remediation and energy recovery. Despite progress toward optimized efficiency, hurdles persist in steering oxidation products away from environmentally unfriendly products, mostly due to a lack of understanding of structure-selectivity relationships. In this study, the UOR performance of Ni and Cu double hydroxides, which show marked differences in their reactivity and selectivity is evaluated. CuCo hydroxides predominantly produce N2, reaching a current density of 20 mA cmgeo -2 at 1.04 V - 250 mV less than NiCo hydroxides that generate nitrogen oxides. A collection of in-situ spectroscopies and scattering experiments reveal a unique in situ generated Cu(2-x)+-OO-• active sites in CuCo, which initiates nucleophilic substitution of NH2 from the amide, leading to N-N coupling between *NH on Co and Cu. In contrast, the formation of nitrogen oxides on NiCo is primarily attributed to the presence of high-valence Ni3+ and Ni4+, which facilitates N-H activation. This process, in conjunction with the excessive accumulation of OH- ions on Jahn-Teller (JT) distorted Co sites, leads to the generation of NO2 - as the primary product. This work underscores the importance of catalyst composition and structural engineering in tailoring innocuous UOR products.
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- Yuwei Yang
- School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Carbon Science and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Australian Carbon Materials Centre (A-CMC), University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Australian Carbon Materials Centre (A-CMC), University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Australian Carbon Materials Centre (A-CMC), University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Carbon Science and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Australian Carbon Materials Centre (A-CMC), University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Carbon Science and Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
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Zang Y, Wang S, Sang J, Wei P, Zhang X, Wang Q, Wang G. Illustration of the Intrinsic Mechanism of Reconstructed Cu Clusters for Enhanced CO 2 Electroreduction to Ethanol Production with Industrial Current Density. NANO LETTERS 2024. [PMID: 38856118 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
Abstract
Copper-based catalysts have been attracting increasing attention for CO2 electroreduction into value-added multicarbon chemicals. However, most Cu-based catalysts are designed for ethylene production, while ethanol production with high Faradaic efficiency at high current density still remains a great challenge. Herein, Cu clusters supported on single-atom Cu dispersed nitrogen-doped carbon (Cux/Cu-N/C) show ethanol Faradaic efficiency of ∼40% and partial current density of ∼350 mA cm-2. Quasi in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy results suggest the generation of surface asymmetrical sites of Cu+ and Cu0 as well as Cu clusters by electrochemical reduction and reconstruction during the CO2 electroreduction process. Density functional theory calculations indicate that the interaction between Cu clusters and the Cu-N/C support enhances *CO adsorption, facilitates the C-C coupling step, and favors the hydrogenation rather than dehydroxylation of the critical intermediate *CHCOH toward ethanol in the bifurcation.
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- Yipeng Zang
- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian 116028, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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Knoell T, Polanco J, MacMillan SN, Bertke JA, Foroutan-Nejad C, Lancaster KM, 'Gus' Bakhoda A. Alkaline earth metal-assisted dinitrogen activation at nickel. Dalton Trans 2024; 53:4689-4697. [PMID: 38362644 PMCID: PMC10922974 DOI: 10.1039/d3dt03984f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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Rare examples of trinuclear [Ni-N2-M-N2-Ni] core (M = Ca, Mg) with linear bridged dinitrogen ligands are reported in this work. The reduction of [iPr2NN]Ni(μ-Br)2Li(thf)2 (1) (iPr2NN = 2,4-bis-(2,6-diisopropylphenylimido)pentyl) with elemental Mg or Ca in THF under an atmosphere of dinitrogen yields the complex {iPr2NNNi(μ-N2)}2M (thf)4 (M = Mg, complex 2 and M = Ca, complex 3). The bridging end-on (μ-N2)2M(thf)4 moiety connects the two [iPr2NNNi]- nickelate fragments. A combination of X-ray crystallography, solution and solid-state spectroscopy have been applied to characterize complexes 2 and 3, and DFT studies have been used to help explain the bonding and electronic structure in these unique Ni-N2-Mg and Ni-N2-Ca complexes.
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- Theresa Knoell
- Department of Chemistry Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD 21252, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Georgetown University, Department of Chemistry, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Guo M, Braun A, Sokaras D, Kroll T. Iron Kβ X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: The Origin of Spectral Features from Atomic to Molecular Systems Using Multi-configurational Calculations. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:1260-1273. [PMID: 38329897 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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Kβ X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) is widely used to fingerprint the local spin of transition-metal ions, including in pump-probe experiments, to identify excited states or in chemical and biological reactions to characterize short-lived intermediates. In this study, the spectra of ferrous and ferric complexes for various spin states were measured experimentally and described theoretically through restricted active space (RAS) calculations including dynamic correlations. Through the RAS calculations from simple atomic models to complex molecular systems, spectral effects such as the exchange interactions, crystal-field strength, and covalent orbital mixing were evaluated and discussed. The calculations find that only the spectral features of low-spin cases show a dependence on the crystal-field strength, particularly for ferrous low spin. The effect of the covalent orbital mixing strength on the first moment of the Kβ1,3 main line and the Kβ1,3-Kβ' energy splitting is quantitatively described. Clear relationships are found within a given nominal spin but less between different spin states, which calls for careful selection of reference spectra in future experiments. This study further advances our understanding of the correlation between changes in experimental spectral features and their corresponding electronic structure information.
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- Meiyuan Guo
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Wilson DWN, Fataftah MS, Mathe Z, Mercado BQ, DeBeer S, Holland PL. Three-Coordinate Nickel and Metal-Metal Interactions in a Heterometallic Iron-Sulfur Cluster. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:4013-4025. [PMID: 38308743 PMCID: PMC10993082 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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Biological multielectron reactions often are performed by metalloenzymes with heterometallic sites, such as anaerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (CODH), which has a nickel-iron-sulfide cubane with a possible three-coordinate nickel site. Here, we isolate the first synthetic iron-sulfur clusters having a nickel atom with only three donors, showing that this structural feature is feasible. These have a core with two tetrahedral irons, one octahedral tungsten, and a three-coordinate nickel connected by sulfide and thiolate bridges. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), Mössbauer, and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) data are combined with density functional theory (DFT) computations to show how the electronic structure of the cluster arises from strong magnetic coupling between the Ni, Fe, and W sites. X-ray absorption spectroscopy, together with spectroscopically validated DFT analysis, suggests that the electronic structure can be described with a formal Ni1+ atom participating in a nonpolar Ni-W σ-bond. This metal-metal bond, which minimizes spin density at Ni1+, is conserved in two cluster oxidation states. Fe-W bonding is found in all clusters, in one case stabilizing a local non-Hund state at tungsten. Based on these results, we compare different M-M interactions and speculate that other heterometallic clusters, including metalloenzyme active sites, could likewise store redox equivalents and stabilize low-valent metal centers through metal-metal bonding.
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- Daniel W. N. Wilson
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect St., New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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Carsch K, Huang AJ, Dods MN, Parker ST, Rohde RC, Jiang HZH, Yabuuchi Y, Karstens SL, Kwon H, Chakraborty R, Bustillo KC, Meihaus KR, Furukawa H, Minor AM, Head-Gordon M, Long JR. Selective Adsorption of Oxygen from Humid Air in a Metal-Organic Framework with Trigonal Pyramidal Copper(I) Sites. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:3160-3170. [PMID: 38276891 PMCID: PMC10859921 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Revised: 01/07/2024] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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High or enriched-purity O2 is used in numerous industries and is predominantly produced from the cryogenic distillation of air, an extremely capital- and energy-intensive process. There is significant interest in the development of new approaches for O2-selective air separations, including the use of metal-organic frameworks featuring coordinatively unsaturated metal sites that can selectively bind O2 over N2 via electron transfer. However, most of these materials exhibit appreciable and/or reversible O2 uptake only at low temperatures, and their open metal sites are also potential strong binding sites for the water present in air. Here, we study the framework CuI-MFU-4l (CuxZn5-xCl4-x(btdd)3; H2btdd = bis(1H-1,2,3-triazolo[4,5-b],[4',5'-i])dibenzo[1,4]dioxin), which binds O2 reversibly at ambient temperature. We develop an optimized synthesis for the material to access a high density of trigonal pyramidal CuI sites, and we show that this material reversibly captures O2 from air at 25 °C, even in the presence of water. When exposed to air up to 100% relative humidity, CuI-MFU-4l retains a constant O2 capacity over the course of repeated cycling under dynamic breakthrough conditions. While this material simultaneously adsorbs N2, differences in O2 and N2 desorption kinetics allow for the isolation of high-purity O2 (>99%) under relatively mild regeneration conditions. Spectroscopic, magnetic, and computational analyses reveal that O2 binds to the copper(I) sites to form copper(II)-superoxide moieties that exhibit temperature-dependent side-on and end-on binding modes. Overall, these results suggest that CuI-MFU-4l is a promising material for the separation of O2 from ambient air, even without dehumidification.
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- Kurtis
M. Carsch
- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- National
Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- National
Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Institute
for Decarbonization Materials, University
of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Mankad NP. Triazenide-supported [Cu 4S] structural mimics of Cu Z that mediate N 2O disproportionation rather than reduction. Chem Sci 2024; 15:1820-1828. [PMID: 38303935 PMCID: PMC10829023 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc05451a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/03/2024] Open
Abstract
As part of the nitrogen cycle, environmental nitrous oxide (N2O) undergoes the N2O reduction reaction (N2ORR) catalyzed by nitrous oxide reductase, a metalloenzyme whose catalytic active site is a tetranuclear copper-sulfide cluster (CuZ). On the other hand, heterogeneous Cu catalysts on oxide supports are known to mediate decomposition of N2O (deN2O) by disproportionation. In this study, a CuZ model system supported by triazenide ligands is characterized by X-ray crystallography, NMR and EPR spectroscopies, and electronic structure calculations. Although the triazenide-ligated Cu4(μ4-S) clusters are closely related to previous formamidinate derivatives, which differ only in replacement of a remote N atom for a CH group, divergent reactivity with N2O is observed. Whereas the formamidinate-ligated clusters were previously shown to mediate single-turnover N2ORR, the triazenide-ligated clusters are found to mediate deN2O, behavior that was previously unknown to natural or synthetic copper-sulfide clusters. The reaction pathway for deN2O by this model system, including previously unidentified transition state models for N2O activation in N-O cleavage and O-O coupling steps, are included. The divergent reactivity of these two related but subtly different systems point to key factors influencing behavior of Cu-based catalysts for N2ORR (i.e., CuZ) and deN2O (e.g., CuO/CeO2).
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- Neal P Mankad
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago Chicago IL 60607 USA
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Ross DL, Jasniewski AJ, Ziller JW, Bominaar EL, Hendrich MP, Borovik AS. Modulation of the Bonding between Copper and a Redox-Active Ligand by Hydrogen Bonds and Its Effect on Electronic Coupling and Spin States. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:500-513. [PMID: 38150413 PMCID: PMC11160172 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c09983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
Abstract
The exchange coupling of electron spins can strongly influence the properties of chemical species. The regulation of this type of electronic coupling has been explored within complexes that have multiple metal ions but to a lesser extent in complexes that pair a redox-active ligand with a single metal ion. To bridge this gap, we investigated the interplay among the structural and magnetic properties of mononuclear Cu complexes and exchange coupling between a Cu center and a redox-active ligand over three oxidation states. The computational analysis of the structural properties established a relationship between the complexes' magnetic properties and a bonding interaction involving a dx2-y2 orbital of the Cu ion and π orbital of the redox-active ligand that are close in energy. The additional bonding interaction affects the geometry around the Cu center and was found to be influenced by intramolecular H-bonds introduced by the external ligands. The ability to synthetically tune the d-π interactions using H-bonds illustrates a new type of control over the structural and magnetic properties of metal complexes.
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- Dolores L Ross
- Department of Chemistry, 1102 Natural Science II, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, 1102 Natural Science II, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, 1102 Natural Science II, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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Fu SY, Chang CH, Ivanov AS, Popovs I, Chen JL, Liao YF, Liu HK, Chirra S, Chiang YW, Lee JC, Liu WL, Kaveevivitchai W, Chen TH. Mixed-Valence Cu I /Cu III Metal-Organic Frameworks with Non-innocent Ligand for Multielectron Transfer. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202312494. [PMID: 37703211 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202312494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 09/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
Abstract
We report two novel three-dimensional copper-benzoquinoid metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), [Cu4 L3 ]n and [Cu4 L3 ⋅ Cu(iq)3 ]n (LH4 =1,4-dicyano-2,3,5,6-tetrahydroxybenzene, iq=isoquinoline). Spectroscopic techniques and computational studies reveal the unprecedented mixed valency in MOFs, formal Cu(I)/Cu(III). This is the first time that formally Cu(III) species are witnessed in metal-organic extended solids. The coordination between the mixed-valence metal and redox-non-innocent ligand L, which promotes through-bond charge transfer between Cu metal sites, allows better metal-ligand orbital overlap of the d-π conjugation, leading to strong long-range delocalization and semiconducting behavior. Our findings highlight the significance of the unique mixed valency between formal Cu(I) and highly-covalent Cu(III), non-innocent ligand, and pore environments of these bench stable Cu(III)-containing frameworks on multielectron transfer and electrochemical properties.
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- Shang-Yuan Fu
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Hierarchical Green-Energy Materials (Hi-GEM) Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, 70101, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, 25137, Taiwan
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, 30076, Taiwan
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, 30076, Taiwan
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- Core Facility Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, 70101, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Hierarchical Green-Energy Materials (Hi-GEM) Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, 70101, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 300-044, Taiwan
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- Core Facility Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, 70101, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, Tamkang University, New Taipei City, 25137, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Hierarchical Green-Energy Materials (Hi-GEM) Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, 70101, Taiwan
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- School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, 70101, Taiwan
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Asundi AS, Noonikara-Poyil A, Phan VQH, Dias HVR, Sarangi R. Understanding Copper(I)-Ethylene Bonding Using Cu K-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:19298-19311. [PMID: 37963391 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
Abstract
Copper plays many important roles in ethylene chemistry, thus generating significant interest in understanding the structures, bonding, and properties of copper(I)-ethylene complexes. In this work, the ethylene binding characteristics of a series of isolable Cu(I)-ethylene compounds supported by a systematic set of fluorinated and nonfluorinated bis- and tris(pyrazolyl)borate and the related bis(pyrazolyl)methane ligands have been investigated. Through a combination of X-ray absorption spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations, we characterize their geometric and electronic structures and the role that fluorinated ligands play in lowering the electron density at Cu sites. Such ligands increase the ethylene-to-Cu σ-donor interaction and, correspondingly, decrease the Cu-to-ethylene π back-bonding. This latter interaction leads to a partial vacancy in the Cu 3d level, which manifests experimentally as a low-energy feature in the Cu K pre-edge, allowing for its direct observation and comparison within a series of Cu(I) compounds. The pre-edge feature is reproduced by TD-DFT calculations, and its energy position and total intensity are used to quantitatively probe Cu-ethylene bonding. The variations in the Cu electronic structure influence the stability and overall ethylene bonding strength of these compounds, ultimately showing how substituents on the supporting ligands have a notable effect on their physical and chemical properties.
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- Arun S Asundi
- SSRL, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, United States
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- SSRL, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Wang SY, Zhang JR, Guo M, Hua W. Interpreting the Cu-O 2 Antibonding Nature in Two Cu-O 2 Complexes from Cu L-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectra. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:17115-17125. [PMID: 37828769 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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Cu-O2 structures play important roles in bioinorganic chemistry and enzyme catalysis, where the bonding between the Cu and O2 parts serves as a fundamental research concern. Here, we performed a multiconfigurational study on the copper L2,3-edge X-ray absorption spectra (XAS) of two copper enzyme model complexes to gain a better understanding of the antibonding nature from the clearly interpreted structure-spectroscopy relation. We obtained spectra in good agreement with the experiments by using the restricted active space second-order perturbation theory (RASPT2) method, which facilitated reliable chemical analysis. Spectral feature interpretations were supported by computing the spin-orbit natural transition orbitals. All major features were assigned to be mainly from Cu 2p to antibonding orbitals between Cu 3d and O2 π*, Cu 3d-πO-O* (type A), and a few also to mixed antibonding/bonding orbitals between Cu 3d and O2 π, Cu 3d ± πO-O (type M). Our calculations provided a clear illustration of the interactions between Cu 3d and O2 π*/π orbitals that are carried in the metal L-edge XAS.
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- Sheng-Yu Wang
- MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 210094 Nanjing, China
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 210094 Nanjing, China
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- Department of Chemistry-Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala 75105, Sweden
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- MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 210094 Nanjing, China
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Nguyen BX, VandeVen W, MacNeil GA, Zhou W, Paterson AR, Walsby CJ, Chiang L. High-Valent Ni and Cu Complexes of a Tetraanionic Bis(amidateanilido) Ligand. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:15180-15194. [PMID: 37676794 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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High-valent metal species are often invoked as intermediates during enzymatic and synthetic catalytic cycles. Anionic donors are often required to stabilize such high-valent states by forming strong bonds with the Lewis acidic metal centers while decreasing their oxidation potentials. In this report, we discuss the synthesis of two high-valent metal complexes [ML]+ in which the NiIII and CuIII centers are ligated by a new tetradentate, tetraanionic bis(amidateanilido) ligand. [ML]+, obtained via chemical oxidation of ML, exhibits UV-vis-NIR, EPR, and XANES spectra characteristic of square planar, high-valent MIII species, suggesting the locus of oxidation for both [ML]+ is predominantly metal-based. This is supported by theoretical analyses, which also support the observed visible transitions as ligand-to-metal charge transfer transitions characteristic of square planar, high-valent MIII species. Notably, [ML]+ can also be obtained via O2 oxidation of ML due to its remarkably negative oxidation potentials (CuL/[CuL]+: -1.16 V, NiL/[NiL]+: -1.01 V vs Fc/Fc+ in MeCN). This demonstrates the exceptionally strong donating nature of the tetraanionic bis(amidateanilido) ligation and its ability to stabilize high-valent metal centers..
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- Bach X Nguyen
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia V2S 7M8, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columba V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columba V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columba V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columba V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Canadian Light Source, 44 Innovation Boulevard, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 2 V3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columba V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia V2S 7M8, Canada
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Czaikowski ME, McNeece AJ, Boyn JN, Jesse KA, Anferov SW, Filatov AS, Mazziotti DA, Anderson JS. Generation and Aerobic Oxidative Catalysis of a Cu(II) Superoxo Complex Supported by a Redox-Active Ligand. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:15569-15580. [PMID: 35977083 PMCID: PMC10017013 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c04630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cu systems feature prominently in aerobic oxidative catalysis in both biology and synthetic chemistry. Metal ligand cooperativity is a common theme in both areas as exemplified by galactose oxidase and by aminoxyl radicals in alcohol oxidations. This has motivated investigations into the aerobic chemistry of Cu and specifically the isolation and study of Cu-superoxo species that are invoked as key catalytic intermediates. While several examples of complexes that model biologically relevant Cu(II) superoxo intermediates have been reported, they are not typically competent aerobic catalysts. Here, we report a new Cu complex of the redox-active ligand tBu,TolDHP (2,5-bis((2-t-butylhydrazono)(p-tolyl)methyl)-pyrrole) that activates O2 to generate a catalytically active Cu(II)-superoxo complex via ligand-based electron transfer. Characterization using ultraviolet (UV)-visible spectroscopy, Raman isotope labeling studies, and Cu extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) analysis confirms the assignment of an end-on κ1 superoxo complex. This Cu-O2 complex engages in a range of aerobic catalytic oxidations with substrates including alcohols and aldehydes. These results demonstrate that bioinspired Cu systems can not only model important bioinorganic intermediates but can also mediate and provide mechanistic insight into aerobic oxidative transformations.
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- Maia E Czaikowski
- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Frateloreto F, Tavani F, Di Berto Mancini M, Del Giudice D, Capocasa G, Kieffer I, Lanzalunga O, Di Stefano S, D’Angelo P. Following a Silent Metal Ion: A Combined X-ray Absorption and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Study of the Zn 2+ Cation Dissipative Translocation between Two Different Ligands. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:5522-5529. [PMID: 35695810 PMCID: PMC9234980 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The dissipative translocation of the Zn2+ ion between two prototypical coordination complexes has been investigated by combining X-ray absorption and 1H NMR spectroscopy. An integrated experimental and theoretical approach, based on state-of-the-art Multivariate Curve Resolution and DFT based theoretical analyses, is presented as a means to understand the concentration time evolution of all relevant Zn and organic species in the investigated processes, and accurately characterize the solution structures of the key metal coordination complexes. Specifically, we investigate the dissipative translocation of the Zn2+ cation from hexaaza-18-crown-6 to two terpyridine moieties and back again to hexaaza-18-crown-6 using 2-cyano-2-phenylpropanoic acid and its para-chloro derivative as fuels. Our interdisciplinary approach has been proven to be a valuable tool to shed light on reactive systems containing metal ions that are silent to other spectroscopic methods. These combined experimental approaches will enable future applications to chemical and biological systems in a predictive manner.
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- Federico Frateloreto
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Observatoire
des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Grenoble-Alpes, UMR
832 CNRS, Grenoble, Cedex 9 F-38041, France
- BM30/CRG-FAME, ESRF, Polygone scientifique, Grenoble, 38000, France
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università degli Studi
di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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Sergentu DC, Autschbach J. Covalency in actinide(iv) hexachlorides in relation to the chlorine K-edge X-ray absorption structure. Chem Sci 2022; 13:3194-3207. [PMID: 35414875 PMCID: PMC8926251 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc06454a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Chlorine K-edge X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) in actinideIV hexachlorides, [AnCl6]2- (An = Th-Pu), is calculated with relativistic multiconfiguration wavefunction theory (WFT). Of particular focus is a 3-peak feature emerging from U toward Pu, and its assignment in terms of donation bonding to the An 5f vs. 6d shells. With or without spin-orbit coupling, the calculated and previously measured XANES spectra are in excellent agreement with respect to relative peak positions, relative peak intensities, and peak assignments. Metal-ligand bonding analyses from WFT and Kohn-Sham theory (KST) predict comparable An 5f and 6d covalency from U to Np and Pu. Although some frontier molecular orbitals in the KST calculations display increasing An 5f-Cl 3p mixing from Th to Pu, because of energetic stabilization of 5f relative to the Cl 3p combinations of the matching symmetry, increasing hybridization is neither seen in the WFT natural orbitals, nor is it reflected in the calculated bond orders. The appearance of the pre-edge peaks from U to Pu and their relative intensities are rationalized simply by the energetic separation of transitions to 6d t2g versus transitions to weakly-bonded and strongly stabilized a2u, t2u and t1u orbitals with 5f character. The study highlights potential pitfalls when interpreting XANES spectra based on ground state Kohn-Sham molecular orbitals.
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- Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo State University of New York Buffalo NY 14260-3000 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo State University of New York Buffalo NY 14260-3000 USA
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Vilé G, Di Liberto G, Tosoni S, Sivo A, Ruta V, Nachtegaal M, Clark AH, Agnoli S, Zou Y, Savateev A, Antonietti M, Pacchioni G. Azide-Alkyne Click Chemistry over a Heterogeneous Copper-Based Single-Atom Catalyst. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c05610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Gianvito Vilé
- Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Roberto Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Roberto Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Paul Scherrer Institute, Forschingsstrasse 111, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Paul Scherrer Institute, Forschingsstrasse 111, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via F. Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Colloid Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm Science Park, Am Muehlenberg 1 OT, Golm, Potsdam 14476, Germany
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- Department of Colloid Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm Science Park, Am Muehlenberg 1 OT, Golm, Potsdam 14476, Germany
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- Department of Colloid Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm Science Park, Am Muehlenberg 1 OT, Golm, Potsdam 14476, Germany
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- Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Roberto Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano, Italy
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Sergentu DC, Autschbach J. X-ray absorption spectra of f-element complexes: insight from relativistic multiconfigurational wavefunction theory. Dalton Trans 2022; 51:1754-1764. [PMID: 35022645 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt04075h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy, coupled with ab initio calculations, has emerged as the state-of-the-art tool for elucidating the metal-ligand bonding in f-element complexes. This highlight presents recent efforts in calculating XANES spectra of lanthanide and actinide compounds with relativistic multiconfiguration wavefunction approaches that account for differences in donation bonding in the ground state (GS) versus a core-excited state (ES), multiplet effects, and spin-orbit-coupling. With the GS and ES wavefunctions available, including spin-orbit effects, an arsenal of chemical bonding tools that are popular among chemists can be applied to rationalize the observed intensities in terms of covalent bonding.
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- Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA.
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Geoghegan BL, Liu Y, Peredkov S, Dechert S, Meyer F, DeBeer S, Cutsail GE. Combining Valence-to-Core X-ray Emission and Cu K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopies to Experimentally Assess Oxidation State in Organometallic Cu(I)/(II)/(III) Complexes. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:2520-2534. [PMID: 35050605 PMCID: PMC8855422 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c09505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A series of organometallic
copper complexes in formal oxidation
states ranging from +1 to +3 have been characterized by a combination
of Cu K-edge X-ray absorption (XAS) and Cu Kβ valence-to-core
X-ray emission spectroscopies (VtC XES). Each formal oxidation state
exhibits distinctly different XAS and VtC XES transition energies
due to the differences in the Cu Zeff, concomitant with
changes in physical oxidation state from +1 to +2 to +3. Herein, we
demonstrate the sensitivity of XAS and VtC XES to the physical oxidation
states of a series of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligated organocopper
complexes. We then extend these methods to the study of the [Cu(CF3)4]− ion. Complemented by computational
methods, the observed spectral transitions are correlated with the
electronic structure of the complexes and the Cu Zeff.
These calculations demonstrate that a contraction of the Cu 1s orbitals
to deeper binding energy upon oxidation of the Cu center manifests
spectroscopically as a stepped increase in the energy of both XAS
and Kβ2,5 emission features with increasing formal
oxidation state within the [Cun+(NHC2)]n+ series. The newly synthesized Cu(III) cation
[CuIII(NHC4)]3+ exhibits spectroscopic
features and an electronic structure remarkably similar to [Cu(CF3)4]−, supporting a physical oxidation
state assignment of low-spin d8 Cu(III) for [Cu(CF3)4]−. Combining XAS and VtC XES
further demonstrates the necessity of combining multiple spectroscopies
when investigating the electronic structures of highly covalent copper
complexes, providing a template for future investigations into both
synthetic and biological metal centers.
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- Blaise L. Geoghegan
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5-7, 45117 Essen, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstrasse 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5-7, 45117 Essen, Germany
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Fan Z, Das C, Demessence A, Zheng R, Tanabe S, Wei YS, Horike S. Photoluminescent coordination polymer bulk glasses and laser-induced crystallization. Chem Sci 2022; 13:3281-3287. [PMID: 35414885 PMCID: PMC8926292 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc06751f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Over centimeter-sized luminescent coordination polymer glasses were fabricated. They showed high transparency (over 80%) and strong green emission at room temperature. The glass-to-crystal transformation by laser irradiation was demonstrated.
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- Zeyu Fan
- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- AIST-Kyoto University Chemical Energy Materials Open Innovation Laboratory (ChEM-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Univ Lyon, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, UMR CNRS 5256, Institute of Researches on Catalysis and Environment of Lyon (IRCELYON), Villeurbanne, France
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- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- AIST-Kyoto University Chemical Energy Materials Open Innovation Laboratory (ChEM-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- AIST-Kyoto University Chemical Energy Materials Open Innovation Laboratory (ChEM-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
- Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Molecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Rayong, 21210, Thailand
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He W, Beattie DD, Zhou H, Bowes EG, Schafer LL, Love JA, Kennepohl P. Direct metal-carbon bonding in symmetric bis(C-H) agostic nickel(i) complexes. Chem Sci 2021; 12:15298-15307. [PMID: 34976350 PMCID: PMC8635179 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc03578a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Agostic interactions are examples of σ-type interactions, typically resulting from interactions between C–H σ-bonds with empty transition metal d orbitals. Such interactions often reflect the first step in transition metal-catalysed C–H activation processes and thus are of critical importance in understanding and controlling σ bond activation chemistries. Herein, we report on the unusual electronic structure of linear electron-rich d9 Ni(i) complexes with symmetric bis(C–H) agostic interactions. A combination of Ni K edge and L edge XAS with supporting TD-DFT/DFT calculations reveals an unconventional covalent agostic interaction with limited contributions from the valence Ni 3d orbitals. The agostic interaction is driven via the empty Ni 4p orbitals. The surprisingly strong Ni 4p-derived agostic interaction is dominated by σ contributions with minor π contributions. The resulting ligand–metal donation occurs directly along the C–Ni bond axis, reflecting a novel mode of bis-agostic bonding. Symmetric Ni(i) agostic complexes reveal an unusual mode of bonding that is dominated by direct carbon-to-metal charge transfer.![]()
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- Weiying He
- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada .,Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia 2036 Main Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia 2036 Main Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada .,Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia 2036 Main Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia 2036 Main Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia 2036 Main Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada .,Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia 2036 Main Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada .,Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia 2036 Main Mall Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 Canada
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Jayasekara GK, Antolini C, Smith MA, Jacoby DJ, Escolastico J, Girard N, Young BT, Hayes D. Mechanisms of the Cu(I)-Catalyzed Intermolecular Photocycloaddition Reaction Revealed by Optical and X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopies. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:19356-19364. [PMID: 34752703 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The [2 + 2] photocycloaddition provides a simple, single-step route to cyclobutane moieties that would otherwise be disfavored or impossible due to ring strain and/or steric interactions. We have used a combination of optical and X-ray transient absorption spectroscopies to elucidate the mechanism of the Cu(I)-catalyzed intermolecular photocycloaddition reaction using norbornene and cyclohexene as model substrates. We find that for norbornene the reaction proceeds through an initial metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) state that persists for 18 ns before the metal returns to the monovalent oxidation state. The Cu K-edge spectrum continues to evolve until ∼5 μs and then remains unchanged for the 50 μs duration of the measurement, reflecting product formation and ligand dissociation. We hypothesize that the MLCT transition and reverse electron transfer serve to sensitize the triplet excited state of one of the norbornene ligands, which then dimerizes with the other to give the product. For the case of cyclohexene, however, we do not observe a charge transfer state following photoexcitation and instead find evidence for an increase in the metal-ligand bond strength that persists for several ns before product formation occurs. This is consistent with a mechanism in which ligand photoisomerization is the initial step, which was first proposed by Salomon and Kochi in 1974 to explain the stereoselectivity of the reaction. Our investigation reveals how this photocatalytic reaction may be directed along strikingly disparate trajectories by only very minor changes to the structure of the substrate.
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- Gethmini K Jayasekara
- Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, 45 Upper College Road, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, 45 Upper College Road, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, 45 Upper College Road, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, 45 Upper College Road, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, United States
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Rhode Island College, 600 Mt Pleasant Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island 02908, United States
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Rhode Island College, 600 Mt Pleasant Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island 02908, United States
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Rhode Island College, 600 Mt Pleasant Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island 02908, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, 45 Upper College Road, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, United States
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Carsch KM, Iliescu A, McGillicuddy RD, Mason JA, Betley TA. Reversible Scavenging of Dioxygen from Air by a Copper Complex. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:18346-18352. [PMID: 34672573 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c10254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We report that exposing the dipyrrin complex (EMindL)Cu(N2) to air affords rapid, quantitative uptake of O2 in either solution or the solid-state to yield (EMindL)Cu(O2). The air and thermal stability of (EMindL)Cu(O2) is unparalleled in molecular copper-dioxygen coordination chemistry, attributable to the ligand flanking groups which preclude the [Cu(O2)]1+ core from degradation. Despite the apparent stability of (EMindL)Cu(O2), dioxygen binding is reversible over multiple cycles with competitive solvent exchange, thermal cycling, and redox manipulations. Additionally, rapid, catalytic oxidation of 1,2-diphenylhydrazine to azoarene with the generation of hydrogen peroxide is observed, through the intermittency of an observable (EMindL)Cu(H2O2) adduct. The design principles gleaned from this study can provide insight for the formation of new materials capable of reversible scavenging of O2 from air under ambient conditions with low-coordinate CuI sorbents.
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- Kurtis M Carsch
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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Pan HR, Chen HJ, Wu ZH, Ge P, Ye S, Lee GH, Hsu HF. Structural and Spectroscopic Evidence for a Side-on Fe(III)-Superoxo Complex Featuring Discrete O-O Bond Distances. JACS AU 2021; 1:1389-1398. [PMID: 34604849 PMCID: PMC8479760 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The O-O bond length is often used as a structural indicator to determine the valence states of bound O2 ligands in biological metal-dioxygen intermediates and related biomimetic complexes. Here, we report very distinct O-O bond lengths found for three crystallographic forms (1.229(4), 1.330(4), 1.387(2) Å at 100 K) of a side-on iron-dioxygen species. Despite their different O-O bond distances, all forms possess the same electronic structure of Fe(III)-O2 •-, as evidenced by their indistinguishable spectroscopic features. Density functional theory and ab initio calculations, which successfully reproduce spectroscopic parameters, predict a flat potential energy surface of an η2-O2 motif binding to the iron center regarding the O-O distance. Therefore, the discrete O-O bond lengths observed likely arise from differential intermolecular interactions in the second coordination sphere. The work suggests that the O-O distance is not a reliable benchmark to unequivocally identify the valence state of O2 ligands for metal-dioxygen species in O2-utilizing metalloproteins and synthetic complexes.
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- Hung-Ruei Pan
- Department
of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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- Department
of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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- Department
of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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- School
of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, P. R. China
- Max-Planck-Institut
für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim
an der Ruhr D-45470, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Department
of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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Liu H, Shen Q. Well-defined organometallic Copper(III) complexes: Preparation, characterization and reactivity. Coord Chem Rev 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.213923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Jurgeleit R, Grimm-Lebsanft B, Flöser BM, Teubner M, Buchenau S, Senft L, Hoffmann J, Naumova M, Näther C, Ivanović-Burmazović I, Rübhausen M, Tuczek F. Catalytic Oxygenation of Hydrocarbons by Mono-μ-oxo Dicopper(II) Species Resulting from O-O Cleavage of Tetranuclear Cu I /Cu II Peroxo Complexes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:14154-14162. [PMID: 33856088 PMCID: PMC8251984 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202101035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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One of the challenges of catalysis is the transformation of inert C-H bonds to useful products. Copper-containing monooxygenases play an important role in this regard. Here we show that low-temperature oxygenation of dinuclear copper(I) complexes leads to unusual tetranuclear, mixed-valent μ4 -peroxo [CuI /CuII ]2 complexes. These Cu4 O2 intermediates promote irreversible and thermally activated O-O bond homolysis, generating Cu2 O complexes that catalyze strongly exergonic H-atom abstraction from hydrocarbons, coupled to O-transfer. The Cu2 O species can also be produced with N2 O, demonstrating their capability for small-molecule activation. The binding and cleavage of O2 leading to the primary Cu4 O2 intermediate and the Cu2 O complexes, respectively, is elucidated with a range of solution spectroscopic methods and mass spectrometry. The unique reactivities of these species establish an unprecedented, 100 % atom-economic scenario for the catalytic, copper-mediated monooxygenation of organic substrates, employing both O-atoms of O2 .
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- Ramona Jurgeleit
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Max-Eyth-Strasse 2, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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- Institut für Nanostruktur- und Festkörperphysik, Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Max-Eyth-Strasse 2, 24118, Kiel, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470, Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Institut für Nanostruktur- und Festkörperphysik, Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany.,Department of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- Institut für Nanostruktur- und Festkörperphysik, Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute for Analytical and Organic Chemistry, University of Bremen, Leobener Strasse 7, 28359, Bremen, Germany.,MAPEX, Center for Materials and Processes, University of Bremen, Bibliothekstrasse 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany
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- DESY, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestrasse 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Max-Eyth-Strasse 2, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.,Department Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandtstrasse 5-13, Haus D, 81377, München, Germany
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- Institut für Nanostruktur- und Festkörperphysik, Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Max-Eyth-Strasse 2, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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Jurgeleit R, Grimm‐Lebsanft B, Flöser BM, Teubner M, Buchenau S, Senft L, Hoffmann J, Naumova M, Näther C, Ivanović‐Burmazović I, Rübhausen M, Tuczek F. Katalytische Oxygenierung von Kohlenwasserstoffen durch Mono‐μ‐oxo‐Dikupfer(II)‐Spezies erzeugt durch O‐O‐Spaltung von tetranuklearen Cu
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‐Peroxo‐Komplexen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202101035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Ramona Jurgeleit
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Max-Eyth-Straße 2 24118 Kiel Deutschland
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- Institut für Nanostruktur- und Festkörperphysik Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL) Universität Hamburg Luruper Chaussee 149 22761 Hamburg Deutschland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Max-Eyth-Straße 2 24118 Kiel Deutschland
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstraße 34–36 45470 Mühlheim an der Ruhr Deutschland
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- Institut für Nanostruktur- und Festkörperphysik Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL) Universität Hamburg Luruper Chaussee 149 22761 Hamburg Deutschland
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry RWTH Aachen University Landoltweg 1 52074 Aachen Deutschland
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- Institut für Nanostruktur- und Festkörperphysik Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL) Universität Hamburg Luruper Chaussee 149 22761 Hamburg Deutschland
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Egerlandstraße 1 91058 Erlangen Deutschland
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- Institute for Analytical and Organic Chemistry University of Bremen Leobener Straße 7 28359 Bremen Deutschland
- MAPEX, Center for Materials and Processes University of Bremen Bibliothekstrasse 1 28359 Bremen Deutschland
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- DESY, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Notkestraße 85 22607 Hamburg Deutschland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Max-Eyth-Straße 2 24118 Kiel Deutschland
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Egerlandstraße 1 91058 Erlangen Deutschland
- Department Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstraße 5–13, Haus D 81377 München Deutschland
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- Institut für Nanostruktur- und Festkörperphysik Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL) Universität Hamburg Luruper Chaussee 149 22761 Hamburg Deutschland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Max-Eyth-Straße 2 24118 Kiel Deutschland
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Suleiman O, Panthi D, Adeyiga O, Odoh SO. Methane C-H Activation by [Cu 2O] 2+ and [Cu 3O 3] 2+ in Copper-Exchanged Zeolites: Computational Analysis of Redox Chemistry and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:6218-6227. [PMID: 33876934 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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There is an ongoing debate regarding the role of [Cu3O3]2+ in methane-to-methanol conversion by copper-exchanged zeolites. Here, we perform electronic structure analysis and localized orbital bonding analysis to probe the redox chemistry of its Cu and μ-oxo sites. Also, the X-ray absorption near-edge structure, XANES, of methane activation in [Cu3O3]2+ is compared to that of the more ubiquitous [Cu2O]2+. Methane C-H activation is associated with only the Cu2+/Cu+ redox couple in [Cu2O]2+. For [Cu3O3]2+, there is no basis for the Cu3+/Cu2+ couple's participation at the density functional theory ground state. In [Cu3O3]2+, there are many possible intrazeolite intermediates for methane activation. In the nine possibilities that we examined, methane activation is driven by a combination of the Cu2+/Cu+ and oxyl/O2- redox couples. Based on this, the Cu 1s-edge XANES spectra of [Cu2O]2+ and [Cu3O3]2+ should both have energy signatures of Cu2+ → Cu+ reduction during methane activation. This is indeed what we obtained from the calculated XANES spectra. [Cu2O]2+ and [Cu3O3]2+ intermediates with one Cu+ site are shifted by 0.9-1.7 eV, while those with two Cu+ sites are shifted by 3.0-4.2 eV. These are near a range of 2.5-3.2 eV observed experimentally after contacting methane with activated copper-exchanged zeolites. Thus, activation of methane by [Cu3O3]2+ will lead to formation of Cu+ sites. Importantly, for future quantitative XANES studies, involvement of O- + e- → O2- in [Cu3O3]2+ implies a disconnect between the overall reactivity and the number of electrons used in the Cu2+/Cu+ redox couple.
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- Olabisi Suleiman
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89557-0216, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89557-0216, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89557-0216, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89557-0216, United States
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Castillo RG, Hahn AW, Van Kuiken BE, Henthorn JT, McGale J, DeBeer S. Probing Physical Oxidation State by Resonant X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: Applications to Iron Model Complexes and Nitrogenase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:10112-10121. [PMID: 33497500 PMCID: PMC8252016 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202015669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The ability of resonant X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) to recover physical oxidation state information, which may often be ambiguous in conventional X-ray spectroscopy, is demonstrated. By combining Kβ XES with resonant excitation in the XAS pre-edge region, resonant Kβ XES (or 1s3p RXES) data are obtained, which probe the 3dn+1 final-state configuration. Comparison of the non-resonant and resonant XES for a series of high-spin ferrous and ferric complexes shows that oxidation state assignments that were previously unclear are now easily made. The present study spans iron tetrachlorides, iron sulfur clusters, and the MoFe protein of nitrogenase. While 1s3p RXES studies have previously been reported, to our knowledge, 1s3p RXES has not been previously utilized to resolve questions of metal valency in highly covalent systems. As such, the approach presented herein provides chemists with means to more rigorously and quantitatively address challenging electronic-structure questions.
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- Rebeca G. Castillo
- Department of Inorganic SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstrasse 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
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- Department of Inorganic SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstrasse 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
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- Department of Inorganic SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstrasse 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
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- Department of Inorganic SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstrasse 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
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- Department of Inorganic SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstrasse 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
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Castillo RG, Hahn AW, Van Kuiken BE, Henthorn JT, McGale J, DeBeer S. Probing Physical Oxidation State by Resonant X‐ray Emission Spectroscopy: Applications to Iron Model Complexes and Nitrogenase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202015669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Rebeca G. Castillo
- Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstrasse 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstrasse 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstrasse 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstrasse 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstrasse 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany
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Tricoire M, Mahieu N, Simler T, Nocton G. Intermediate Valence States in Lanthanide Compounds. Chemistry 2021; 27:6860-6879. [PMID: 33340383 PMCID: PMC7610675 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202004735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Over more than 50 years, intermediate valence states in lanthanide compounds have often resulted in unexpected or puzzling spectroscopic and magnetic properties. Such experimental singularities could not be rationalised until new theoretical models involving multiconfigurational electronic ground states were established. In this minireview, the different singularities that have been observed among lanthanide complexes are highlighted, the models used to rationalise them are detailed and how such electronic effects may be adjusted depending on energy and symmetry considerations is considered. Understanding and tuning the ground-state multiconfigurational behaviour in lanthanide complexes may open new doors to modular and unusual reactivities.
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- Maxime Tricoire
- LCM, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, cedex, France
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- LCM, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, cedex, France
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- LCM, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, cedex, France
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- LCM, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, cedex, France
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Lais T, Lukashuk L, van de Water L, Hyde TI, Aramini M, Sankar G. Elucidation of copper environment in a Cu-Cr-Fe oxide catalyst through in situ high-resolution XANES investigation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:5888-5896. [PMID: 33660717 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06468h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Copper containing materials are widely used in a range of catalytic applications. Here, we report the use of Cu K-edge high resolution XANES to determine the local site symmetry of copper ions during the thermal treatment of a Cu-Cr-Fe oxide catalyst. We exploited the Cu K-edge XANES spectral features, in particular the correlation between area under the pre-edge peak and its position to determine the local environment of Cu2+ ions. The information gained from this investigation rules out the presence of Cu2+ ions in a tetrahedral or square planar geometry, a mixture of these sites, or in a reduced oxidation state. Evidence is presented that the Cu2+ ions in the Cu-Cr-Fe oxide system are present in a distorted octahedral environment.
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- Tahmin Lais
- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK.
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- Johnson Matthey, PO Box 1, Belasis Avenue, Billingham, Cleveland TS23 1LB, UK
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- Johnson Matthey, PO Box 1, Belasis Avenue, Billingham, Cleveland TS23 1LB, UK
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- Johnson Matthey, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9NH, UK
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK.
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Best SP, Streltsov VA, Chantler CT, Li W, Ash PA, Hayama S, Diaz-Moreno S. Redox state and photoreduction control using X-ray spectroelectrochemical techniques - advances in design and fabrication through additive engineering. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2021; 28:472-479. [PMID: 33650559 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577520016021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The design and performance of an electrochemical cell and solution flow system optimized for the collection of X-ray absorption spectra from solutions of species sensitive to photodamage is described. A combination of 3D CAD and 3D printing techniques facilitates highly optimized design with low unit cost and short production time. Precise control of the solution flow is critical to both minimizing the volume of solution needed and minimizing the photodamage that occurs during data acquisition. The details of an integrated four-syringe stepper-motor-driven pump and associated software are described. It is shown that combined electrochemical and flow control can allow repeated measurement of a defined volume of solution, 100 µl, of samples sensitive to photoreduction without significant change to the X-ray absorption near-edge structure and is demonstrated by measurements of copper(II) complexes. The flow in situ electrochemical cell allows the collection of high-quality X-ray spectral measurements both in the near-edge region and over an extended energy region as is needed for structural analysis from solution samples. This approach provides control over photodamage at a level at least comparable with that achieved using cryogenic techniques and at the same time eliminates problems associated with interference due to Bragg peaks.
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- Stephen Peter Best
- School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QR, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
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Phu PN, Gutierrez CE, Kundu S, Sokaras D, Kroll T, Warren TH, Stieber SCE. Quantification of Ni-N-O Bond Angles and NO Activation by X-ray Emission Spectroscopy. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:736-744. [PMID: 33373520 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A series of β-diketiminate Ni-NO complexes with a range of NO binding modes and oxidation states were studied by X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES). The results demonstrate that XES can directly probe and distinguish end-on vs side-on NO coordination modes as well as one-electron NO reduction. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that the transition from the NO 2s2s σ* orbital has higher intensity for end-on NO coordination than for side-on NO coordination, whereas the 2s2s σ orbital has lower intensity. XES calculations in which the Ni-N-O bond angle was fixed over the range from 80° to 176° suggest that differences in NO coordination angles of ∼10° could be experimentally distinguished. Calculations of Cu nitrite reductase (NiR) demonstrate the utility of XES for characterizing NO intermediates in metalloenzymes. This work shows the capability of XES to distinguish NO coordination modes and oxidation states at Ni and highlights applications in quantifying small molecule activation in enzymes.
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- Phan N Phu
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California 91768, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California 91768, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Box 571227, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States.,School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695551, India
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Box 571227, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California 91768, United States
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Kaewbuddee C, Chirawatkul P, Kamonsuangkasem K, Chanlek N, Wantala K. Structural characterizations of copper incorporated manganese oxide OMS-2 material and its efficiencies on toluene oxidation. CHEM ENG COMMUN 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2021.1872021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- C. Kaewbuddee
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
- Chemical Kinetics and Applied Catalysis Laboratory (CKCL), Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Synchrotron Light Research Institute (Public Organization), Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- Synchrotron Light Research Institute (Public Organization), Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- Synchrotron Light Research Institute (Public Organization), Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
- Chemical Kinetics and Applied Catalysis Laboratory (CKCL), Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
- Research Center for Environmental and Hazardous Substance Management (EHSM), Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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Kisgeropoulos EC, Manesis AC, Shafaat HS. Ligand Field Inversion as a Mechanism to Gate Bioorganometallic Reactivity: Investigating a Biochemical Model of Acetyl CoA Synthase Using Spectroscopy and Computation. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:849-867. [PMID: 33415980 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c10135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The biological global carbon cycle is largely regulated through microbial nickel enzymes, including carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (CODH), acetyl coenzyme A synthase (ACS), and methyl coenzyme M reductase (MCR). These systems are suggested to utilize organometallic intermediates during catalysis, though characterization of these species has remained challenging. We have established a mutant of nickel-substituted azurin as a scaffold upon which to develop protein-based models of enzymatic intermediates, including the organometallic states of ACS. In this work, we report the comprehensive investigation of the S = 1/2 Ni-CO and Ni-CH3 states using pulsed EPR spectroscopy and computational techniques. While the Ni-CO state shows conventional metal-ligand interactions and a classical ligand field, the Ni-CH3 hyperfine interactions between the methyl protons and the nickel indicate a closer distance than would be expected for an anionic methyl ligand. Structural analysis instead suggests a near-planar methyl ligand that can be best described as cationic. Consistent with this conclusion, the frontier molecular orbitals of the Ni-CH3 species indicate a ligand-centered LUMO, with a d9 population on the metal center, rather than the d7 population expected for a typical metal-alkyl species generated by oxidative addition. Collectively, these data support the presence of an inverted ligand field configuration for the Ni-CH3 Az species, in which the lowest unoccupied orbital is centered on the ligands rather than the more electropositive metal. These analyses provide the first evidence for an inverted ligand field within a biological system. The functional relevance of the electronic structures of both the Ni-CO and Ni-CH3 species are discussed in the context of native ACS, and an inverted ligand field is proposed as a mechanism by which to gate reactivity both within ACS and in other thiolate-containing metalloenzymes.
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- Effie C Kisgeropoulos
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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Huang TH, Wu TC, Zhao FZ, Zheng D, Luo C, Liang GM, Zhao B. Structures, electronic and luminescent properties of Cu(I)-quinoline complex at different temperatures and its application to red light-emitting diode. Inorganica Chim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2020.120008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Seo C, Cheong YJ, Yoon W, Kim J, Shin J, Yun H, Kim SJ, Jang HY. Mononuclear Copper Complexes with Tridentate Tris(N-heterocyclic carbene): Synthesis and Catalysis of Alkyne–Azide Cycloaddition. Organometallics 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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- Changhyeon Seo
- Department of Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
- Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Korea
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Liu Y, Deb A, Leung KY, Nie W, Dean WS, Penner-Hahn JE, McCrory CCL. Determining the coordination environment and electronic structure of polymer-encapsulated cobalt phthalocyanine under electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction conditions using in situ X-Ray absorption spectroscopy. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:16329-16339. [PMID: 32432282 DOI: 10.1039/d0dt01288b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Encapsulating cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) within the coordinating polymer poly-4-vinylpyridine (P4VP) results in a catalyst-polymer composite (CoPc-P4VP) that selectively reduces CO2 to CO at fast rates at low overpotential. In previous studies, we postulated that the enhanced selectively for CO over H2 production within CoPc-P4VP compared to the parent CoPc complex is due to a combination of primary, secondary, and outer-coordination sphere effects imbued by the encapsulating polymer. In this work, we perform in situ electrochemical X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements to study the oxidation state and coordination environment of Co as a function of applied potential for CoPc, CoPc-P4VP, and CoPc with an axially-coordinated py, CoPc(py). Using in situ X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) we provide experimental support for our previous hypothesis that Co changes from a 4-coordinate square-planar geometry in CoPc to a mostly 5-coordinate species in CoPc(py) and CoPc-P4VP. The coordination environment of CoPc-P4VP is potential-independent but pH-dependent, suggesting that the axial coordination of pyridyl groups in P4VP to CoPc is modulated by the protonation of the polymer. Finally, we show that at low potential the oxidation state of Co in the 4-coordinate CoPc is different from that in the 5-coordinate CoPc(py), suggesting that the primary coordination sphere modulates the site of reduction (metal-centered vs. ligand centered) under catalytically-relevant conditions.
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- Yingshuo Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
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Garrido-Barros P, Moonshiram D, Gil-Sepulcre M, Pelosin P, Gimbert-Suriñach C, Benet-Buchholz J, Llobet A. Redox Metal-Ligand Cooperativity Enables Robust and Efficient Water Oxidation Catalysis at Neutral pH with Macrocyclic Copper Complexes. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:17434-17446. [PMID: 32935982 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c06515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Water oxidation catalysis stands out as one of the most important reactions to design practical devices for artificial photosynthesis. Use of late first-row transition metal (TM) complexes provides an excellent platform for the development of inexpensive catalysts with exquisite control on their electronic and structural features via ligand design. However, the difficult access to their high oxidation states and the general labile character of their metal-ligand bonds pose important challenges. Herein, we explore a copper complex (12-) featuring an extended, π-delocalized, tetra-amidate macrocyclic ligand (TAML) as water oxidation catalyst and compare its activity to analogous systems with lower π-delocalization (22- and 32-). Their characterization evidences a special metal-ligand cooperativity in accommodating the required oxidative equivalents using 12- that is absent in 22- and 32-. This consists of charge delocalization promoted by easy access to different electronic states at a narrow energy range, corresponding to either metal-centered or ligand-centered oxidations, which we identify as an essential factor to stabilize the accumulated oxidative charges. This translates into a significant improvement in the catalytic performance of 12- compared to 22- and 32- and leads to one of the most active and robust molecular complexes for water oxidation at neutral pH with a kobs of 140 s-1 at an overpotential of only 200 mV. In contrast, 22- degrades under oxidative conditions, which we associate to the impossibility of efficiently stabilizing several oxidative equivalents via charge delocalization, resulting in a highly reactive oxidized ligand. Finally, the acyclic structure of 32- prevents its use at neutral pH due to acidic demetalation, highlighting the importance of the macrocyclic stabilization.
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- Pablo Garrido-Barros
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDE A Nanociencia), Calle Faraday, 9, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Avinguda Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.,Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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The peculiar redox mechanism of copper nitroprusside disclosed by a multi-technique approach. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2019.05.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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DiMucci IM, MacMillan SN, Walroth RC, Lancaster KM. Scrutinizing "Ligand Bands" via Polarized Single-Crystal X-ray Absorption Spectra of Copper(I) and Copper(II) Bis-2,2'-bipyridine Species. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:13416-13426. [PMID: 32871080 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [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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High-energy resolution fluorescence-detected Cu K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and single-crystal polarized XAS data are presented toward refining the assignments of bands assigned as excitations from Cu 1s to ligand-localized molecular orbitals. These have been previously dubbed "XAS-metal-ligand charge transfer" (XAS-MLCT) bands. Data are presented for a series of [Cu(xbpy)2]n+ complexes (xbpy = 2,2'-bipyridine (1n+), 4,4'-bisamino-2,2'-bipyridine (2n+), and 4,4'-dimethoxy-2,2'-bipyridine (3n+); n = 1 and 2). Dipolar dependencies of these "XAS-MLCT" bands in both Cu1+ and Cu2+ species lead to reassignment of these features as owing their intensities primarily to Cu 1s → Cu 4p excitations. The transition densities are Cu-localized, highlighting that XAS-MLCT features in Cu XAS spectra are not "charge transfer" transitions but rather quasi-atomic transitions. Although scrutiny of the acceptor orbitals supports assignment as Cu 1s → ligand π* transitions, it ultimately appears that while the ligand orbital energetics govern the positions of these bands the intensity is conferred through a small degree of metal 4p mixing into otherwise ligand-dominated acceptor molecular orbitals.
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- Ida M DiMucci
- Cornell Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Cornell Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Cornell Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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McCubbin Stepanic O, Ward J, Penner-Hahn JE, Deb A, Bergmann U, DeBeer S. Probing a Silent Metal: A Combined X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopic Study of Biologically Relevant Zinc Complexes. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:13551-13560. [PMID: 32893611 PMCID: PMC7509839 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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As the second most common transition metal in the human body, zinc is of great interest to research but has few viable routes for its direct structural study in biological systems. Herein, Zn valence-to-core X-ray emission spectroscopy (VtC XES) and Zn K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) are presented as a means to understand the local structure of zinc in biological systems through the application of these methods to a series of biologically relevant molecular model complexes. Taken together, the Zn K-edge XAS and VtC XES provide a means to establish the ligand identity, local geometry, and metal-ligand bond lengths. Experimental results are supported by correlation with density-functional-theory-based calculations. Combining these theoretical and experimental approaches will enable future applications to protein systems in a predictive manner.
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- Olivia McCubbin Stepanic
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Darapaneni P, Meyer AM, Sereda M, Bruner A, Dorman JA, Lopata K. Simulated field-modulated x-ray absorption in titania. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:054110. [PMID: 32770877 DOI: 10.1063/5.0009677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In this paper, we present a method to compute the x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectra of solid-state transition metal oxides using real-time time-dependent density functional theory, including spin-orbit coupling effects. This was performed on bulk-mimicking anatase titania (TiO2) clusters, which allows for the use of hybrid functionals and atom-centered all electron basis sets. Furthermore, this method was employed to calculate the shifts in the XANES spectra of the Ti L-edge in the presence of applied electric fields to understand how external fields can modify the electronic structure, and how this can be probed using x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Specifically, the onset of t2g peaks in the Ti L-edge was observed to red shift and the eg peaks were observed to blue shift with increasing fields, attributed to changes in the hybridization of the conduction band (3d) orbitals.
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- Pragathi Darapaneni
- Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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Prussian Blue analogues (PBAs) are a promising class of electrode active materials for batteries. Among them, copper nitroprusside, Cu[Fe(CN)5NO], has recently been investigated for its peculiar redox system, which also involves the nitrosyl ligand as a non-innocent ligand, in addition to the electroactivity of the metal sites, Cu and Fe. This paper studies the dynamics of the electrode, employing surface sensitive X-ray Photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and bulk sensitive X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) techniques. XPS provided chemical information on the layers formed on electrode surfaces following the self-discharge process of the cathode material in the presence of the electrolyte. These layers consist mainly of electrolyte degradation products, such as LiF, LixPOyFz and LixPFy. Moreover, as evidenced by XAS and XPS, reduction at both metal sites takes place in the bulk and in the surface of the material, clearly evidencing that a self-discharge process is occurring. We observed faster processes and higher amounts of reduced species and decomposition products in the case of samples with a higher amount of coordination water.
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Wu T, MacMillan SN, Rajabimoghadam K, Siegler MA, Lancaster KM, Garcia-Bosch I. Structure, Spectroscopy, and Reactivity of a Mononuclear Copper Hydroxide Complex in Three Molecular Oxidation States. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:12265-12276. [PMID: 32531159 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Structural, spectroscopic, and reactivity studies are presented for an electron transfer series of copper hydroxide complexes supported by a tridentate redox-active ligand. Single crystal X-ray crystallography shows that the mononuclear [CuOH]1+ core is stabilized via intramolecular H-bonds between the H-donors of the ligand and the hydroxide anion when the ligand is in its trianionic form. This complex undergoes two reversible oxidation processes that produce two metastable "high-valent" CuOH species, which can be generated by addition of stoichiometric amounts of 1e- oxidants. These CuOH species are characterized by an array of spectroscopic techniques including UV-vis absorption, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and X-ray absorption spectroscopies (XAS), which together indicate that all redox couples are ligand-localized. The reactivity of the complexes in their higher oxidation states toward substrates with modest O-H bond dissociation energies (e.g., 4-substitued-2,6-di-tert-butylphenols) indicates that these complexes act as 2H+/2e- oxidants, differing from the 1H+/1e- reactivity of well-studied [CuOH]2+ systems.
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- Tong Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Baker Laboratory, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Baker Laboratory, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States
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Rentschler M, Iglesias S, Schmid MA, Liu C, Tschierlei S, Frey W, Zhang X, Karnahl M, Moonshiram D. The Coordination Behaviour of Cu I Photosensitizers Bearing Multidentate Ligands Investigated by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Chemistry 2020; 26:9527-9536. [PMID: 32162730 PMCID: PMC7496955 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201905601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Revised: 02/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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A systematic series of four novel homo‐ and heteroleptic CuI photosensitizers based on tetradentate 1,10‐phenanthroline ligands of the type X^N^N^X containing two additional donor moieties in the 2,9‐position (X=SMe or OMe) were designed. Their solid‐state structures were assessed by X‐ray diffraction. Cyclic voltammetry, UV‐vis absorption, emission and X‐ray absorption spectroscopy were then used to determine their electrochemical, photophysical and structural features in solution. Following, time‐resolved X‐ray absorption spectroscopy in the picosecond time scale, coupled with time‐dependent density functional theory calculations, provided in‐depth information on the excited state electron configurations. For the first time, a significant shortening of the Cu−X distance and a change in the coordination mode to a pentacoordinated geometry is shown in the excited states of the two homoleptic complexes. These findings are important with respect to a precise understanding of the excited state structures and a further stabilization of this type of photosensitizers.
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- Martin Rentschler
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday, 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry I, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday, 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Askari MS, Effaty F, Gennarini F, Orio M, Le Poul N, Ottenwaelder X. Tuning Inner-Sphere Electron Transfer in a Series of Copper/Nitrosoarene Adducts. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:8678-8689. [PMID: 32073833 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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A series of copper/nitrosoarene complexes was created that mimics several steps in biomimetic O2 activation by copper(I). The reaction of the copper(I) complex of N,N,N',N'-tetramethypropylenediamine with a series of para-substituted nitrosobenzene derivatives leads to adducts in which the nitrosoarene (ArNO) is reduced by zero, one, or two electrons, akin to the isovalent species dioxygen, superoxide, and peroxide, respectively. The geometric and electronic structures of these adducts were characterized by means of X-ray diffraction, vibrational analysis, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, NMR, electrochemistry, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The bonding mode of the NO moiety depends on the oxidation state of the ArNO moiety: κN for ArNO, mononuclear η2-NO and dinuclear μ-η2:η1 for ArNO•-, and dinuclear μ-η2:η2 for ArNO2-. 15N isotopic labeling confirms the reduction state by measuring the NO stretching frequency (1392 cm-1 for κN-ArNO, 1226 cm-1 for η2-ArNO•-, 1133 cm-1 for dinuclear μ-η2:η1-ArNO•-, and 875 cm-1 for dinuclear μ-η2:η2 for ArNO2-). The 15N NMR signal disappears for the ArNO•- species, establishing a unique diagnostic for the radical state. Electrochemical studies indicate reduction waves that are consistent with one-electron reduction of the adducts and are compared with studies performed on Cu-O2 analogues. DFT calculations were undertaken to confirm our experimental findings, notably to establish the nature of the charge-transfer transitions responsible for the intense green color of the complexes. In fine, this family of complexes is unique in that it walks through three redox states of the ArNO moiety while keeping the metal and its supporting ligand the same. This work provides snapshots of the reactivity of the toxic nitrosoarene molecules with the biologically relevant Cu(I) ion.
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- Mohammad S Askari
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada.,Laboratoire de Chimie, Électrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique, UMR, CNRS 6521, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest 29238, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, iSm2, Marseille 13007, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie, Électrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique, UMR, CNRS 6521, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest 29238, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada
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Bower JK, Cypcar AD, Henriquez B, Stieber SCE, Zhang S. C(sp 3)-H Fluorination with a Copper(II)/(III) Redox Couple. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:8514-8521. [PMID: 32275410 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c02583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Despite the growing interest in the synthesis of fluorinated organic compounds, few reactions are able to incorporate fluoride ions directly into alkyl C-H bonds. Here, we report the C(sp3)-H fluorination reactivity of a formally copper(III) fluoride complex. The C-H fluorination intermediate, LCuF, along with its chloride and bromide analogues, LCuCl and LCuBr, were prepared directly from halide sources with a chemical oxidant and fully characterized with single-crystal X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, UV-vis spectroscopy, and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Quantum chemical calculations reveal significant halide radical character for all complexes, suggesting their ability to initiate and terminate a C(sp3)-H halogenation sequence by sequential hydrogen atom abstraction (HAA) and radical capture. The capability of HAA by the formally copper(III) halide complexes was explored with 9,10-dihydroanthracene, revealing that LCuF exhibits rates 2 orders of magnitude higher than LCuCl and LCuBr. In contrast, all three complexes efficiently capture carbon radicals to afford C(sp3)-halogen bonds. Mechanistic investigation of radical capture with a triphenylmethyl radical revealed that LCuF proceeds through a concerted mechanism, while LCuCl and LCuBr follow a stepwise electron transfer-halide transfer pathway. The capability of LCuF to perform both hydrogen atom abstraction and radical capture was leveraged to enable fluorination of allylic and benzylic C-H bonds and α-C-H bonds of ethers at room temperature.
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- Jamey K Bower
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, California 91768, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, California 91768, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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Liu Y, Resch SG, Klawitter I, Cutsail GE, Demeshko S, Dechert S, Kühn FE, DeBeer S, Meyer F. An Adaptable N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Macrocycle Hosting Copper in Three Oxidation States. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201912745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Yang Liu
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry University of Göttingen Tammannstrasse 4 37077 Göttingen Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry University of Göttingen Tammannstrasse 4 37077 Göttingen Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry University of Göttingen Tammannstrasse 4 37077 Göttingen Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstrasse 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry University of Göttingen Tammannstrasse 4 37077 Göttingen Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry University of Göttingen Tammannstrasse 4 37077 Göttingen Germany
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- Department of Chemistry & Catalysis Research Center Technische Universität München Lichtenbergstrasse 4 85748 Garching bei München Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstrasse 34–36 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry University of Göttingen Tammannstrasse 4 37077 Göttingen Germany
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Liu Y, Resch SG, Klawitter I, Cutsail GE, Demeshko S, Dechert S, Kühn FE, DeBeer S, Meyer F. An Adaptable N-Heterocyclic Carbene Macrocycle Hosting Copper in Three Oxidation States. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:5696-5705. [PMID: 31769151 PMCID: PMC7154638 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201912745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
A neutral hybrid macrocycle with two trans-positioned N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) and two pyridine donors hosts copper in three oxidation states (+I-+III) in a series of structurally characterized complexes (1-3). Redox interconversion of [LCu]+/2+/3+ is electrochemically (quasi)reversible and occurs at moderate potentials (E1/2 =-0.45 V and +0.82 V (vs. Fc/Fc+ )). A linear CNHC -Cu-CNHC arrangement and hemilability of the two pyridine donors allows the ligand to adapt to the different stereoelectronic and coordination requirements of CuI versus CuII /CuIII . Analytical methods such as NMR, UV/Vis, IR, electron paramagnetic resonance, and Cu Kβ high-energy-resolution fluorescence detection X-ray absorption spectroscopies, as well as DFT calculations, give insight into the geometric and electronic structures of the complexes. The XAS signatures of 1-3 are textbook examples for CuI , CuII , and CuIII species. Facile 2-electron interconversion combined with the exposure of two basic pyridine N sites in the reduced CuI form suggest that [LCu]+/2+/3+ may operate in catalysis via coupled 2 e- /2 H+ transfer.
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- Yang Liu
- Institute of Inorganic ChemistryUniversity of GöttingenTammannstrasse 437077GöttingenGermany
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- Institute of Inorganic ChemistryUniversity of GöttingenTammannstrasse 437077GöttingenGermany
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- Institute of Inorganic ChemistryUniversity of GöttingenTammannstrasse 437077GöttingenGermany
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- Department of Inorganic SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstrasse 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
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- Institute of Inorganic ChemistryUniversity of GöttingenTammannstrasse 437077GöttingenGermany
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- Institute of Inorganic ChemistryUniversity of GöttingenTammannstrasse 437077GöttingenGermany
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- Department of Chemistry & Catalysis Research CenterTechnische Universität MünchenLichtenbergstrasse 485748Garching bei MünchenGermany
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- Department of Inorganic SpectroscopyMax Planck Institute for Chemical Energy ConversionStiftstrasse 34–3645470Mülheim an der RuhrGermany
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- Institute of Inorganic ChemistryUniversity of GöttingenTammannstrasse 437077GöttingenGermany
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