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NATURE CHEMISTRY
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 15-20Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.1501
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- US National Science Foundation [CHE-1057904]
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [F-1018]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan [20108010, 23750014]
- World Class University Program of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [R32-2010-000-10217-0, R31-2008-000-10010-0]
- Basic Science Research Programs, National Research Foundation [2009-0087013]
- BK21, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
- Department of Science and Technology India [SR/S1/IC-20/2007]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1057904] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20108001, 20108010, 23750014] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) processes are among the most important phenomena that control a variety of chemical and biological transformations. Although extensively studied in a variety of natural systems and discrete metal complexes, PCET mechanisms are less well codified in the case of purely organic compounds. Here we report that a planar beta,beta'-phenylene-bridged hexaphyrin (1.0.1.0.1.0), a 24 pi-electron antiaromatic species termed rosarin, displays unique redox reactivity on protonation. Specifically, treatment with acid (for example, HI) yields a 26 pi-electron aromatic triprotonated monocationic species that is produced spontaneously via an intermediate-but stable-25 pi-electron non-aromatic triprotonated monoradical dication. This latter species is also produced on treatment of the original 24 pi-electron antiaromatic starting material with HCl or HBr. The stepwise nature of the proton-coupled reduction observed in the planar rosarin stands in marked contrast to that seen for non-annulated rosarins and other ostensibly antiaromatic expanded porphyrinoids.
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