A Balancing Act: Stability versus Reactivity of Mn(O) Complexes.
A Balancing Act: Stability versus Reactivity of Mn(O) Complexes.
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00273
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发表时间:
2015-10-20
影响因子:
18.3
通讯作者:
Goldberg DP
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作者:
Neu HM;Baglia RA;Goldberg DP
A large class of heme and nonheme metalloenzymes utilize O2 or its derivatives (e.g. H2O2) to generate high-valent metal-oxo intermediates for performing challenging and selective oxidations. Due to their reactive nature, these intermediates are often short-lived and very difficult to characterize. Synthetic chemists have sought to prepare analogous metal-oxo complexes with ligands that impart enough stability to allow for their characterization and an examination of their inherent reactivity. The challenge in designing these molecules is to achieve a balance between their stability, which should allow for their in situ characterization or isolation, and their reactivity, in which they can still participate in interesting chemical transformations. This review focuses on our recent efforts to generate and stabilize high-valent manganese-oxo porphyrinoid complexes, and tune their reactivity in the oxidation of organic substrates. Dioxygen can be used to generate a high-valent MnV(O) corrolazine (MnVO(TBP8Cz)) by irradiation of MnIII(TBP8Cz) with visible light in the presence of a C–H substrate. Quantitative formation of the MnV(O) complex occurs with concomitant selective hydroxylation of the benzylic substrate hexamethylbenzene. Addition of a strong H+ donor converted this light/O2/substrate reaction from a stoichiometric to a catalytic process with modest turnovers. The addition of H+ likely activates a transient MnV(O) complex to achieve turnover, whereas in the absence of H+, the MnV(O) complex was an unreactive, “dead-end” complex. Addition of anionic donors to the MnV(O) complex also leads to enhanced reactivity, with a large increase in the rate of 2-electron oxygen-atom-transfer (OAT) to thioether substrates. Spectroscopic characterization (Mn K-edge X-ray absorption and resonance Raman spectroscopies) revealed that the anionic donors (X−) bind to the MnV ion to form six-coordinate [MnV(O)(X)]− complexes. An unusual “V-shaped” Hammett plot for the oxidation of para-substituted thioanisole derivatives suggested that six-coordinate [MnV(O)(X)]− complexes can act as both electrophiles or nucleophiles, depending on the nature of the substrate. Oxidation of the MnV(O) corrolazine resulted in the in situ generation of an MnV(O) π-radical cation complex, [MnV(O)(TBP8Cz•+)]+, which exhibited more than a 100-fold rate increase in the oxidation of thioethers. The addition of Lewis acids (LA: ZnII, B(C6F5)3) to the closed-shell, diamagnetic MnV(O)(TBP8Cz) stabilized a paramagnetic valence tautomer MnIV(O)(TBP8Cz•+):LA, which was characterized as a second π-radical cation complex by NMR, EPR, UV-vis, and high resolution CSI-MS. The MnIV(O)(TBP8Cz•+):LA complexes are able to abstract H• from phenols and exhibit a rate enhancement of up to ∼100-fold over the parent MnV(O) valence tautomer. In contrast, a large decrease in rate is observed for OAT for the MnIV(O)(TBP8Cz•+):LA complexes. The rate enhancement for HAT may derive from the higher redox potential for the π-radical cation complex, while the large rate decrease seen for OAT may come from a decrease in electrophilicity for an MnIV(O) versus MnV(O) complex.