Revisiting the electronic ground state of copper corroles
Revisiting the electronic ground state of copper corroles
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200603676
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Holthausen, Max C.
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作者:
Broering, Martin;Bregier, Frederique;Holthausen, Max C.
The oxidation state of the metal centers in corrole complexes is currently a topic of lively debate.[1–4] High-valent metal ions have been reported to be present in copper, iron, chromium, cobalt, and manganese corroles. Speculation that the corrole ligand in these complexes has a non-innocent character has stimulated renewed interest in this field. Metal porphyrins are usually employed as reference compounds for the discussion of metal corroles, despite the fact that the sizes of the N4 cavities of corrole and porphyrin ligands—and, thus, the strength of the metal–ligand interactions—differ significantly. A better reference ligand would be an aromatic porphyrinoid with the contracted N4 core of corrole and the double negative charge of porphyrin. We have now identified 10-oxacorrole as an ideally suited reference system. Herein, we present a comparative study of isostructural copper complexes with 10-oxacorrole and corrole ligands, in which the metal ions have different formal, yet identical physical oxidation states.[5]Copper corroles are simple porphyrinoid metal complexes with a diamagnetic ground state. The central copper ion in these complexes has been assigned an oxidation state of+ 3,[1] on the basis of X-ray diffraction (XRD; short CuÀN distances), and UV/Vis (porphyrinoid spectral type) and 1HNMR (low-field shift of the aromatic signals at low temperature) spectroscopy. These findings were subsequently confirmed by several authors for a number of related copper corroles.[2] DFT calculations, electrochemical studies, and Raman spectroscopy have provided additional support for the interpretation of copper corroles as typical low-spin copper-(III) complexes with a low-lying triplet excited state.[3] During our studies on the oxidative macrocyclization of open-chain tetrapyrrolic 2, 2’-bidipyrrins, we observed that, upon treatment with anhydrous copper (II) sulfate, 1 is