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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 19, Pages 5996-6004Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201300026
Keywords
electrochemistry; lanthanides; magnetism; oxidation; spectroscopy
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- NSF [CHE-1026553, CHE-0840438]
- Penn University Research Foundation
- Office of Science (OS), Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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Reaction of p-benzoquinone (BQ) with a series of rare-earth metal/alkali metal/1,1'-BINOLate (REMB) complexes (RE: La, Ce, Pr, Nd; M: Li) results in the largest recorded shift in reduction potential observed for BQ upon complexation. In the case of cerium, the formation of a 2: 1 Ce/BQ complex shifts the two-electron reduction of BQ by greater than or equal to 1.6 V to a more favorable potential. Reactivity investigations were extended to other REIII (RE = La, Pr, Nd) complexes where the resulting highly electron-deficient quinone ligands afforded isolation of the first lanthanide quinhydrone-type charge-transfer complexes. The large reduction-potential shift associated with the formation of 2: 1 Ce/BQ complexes illustrate the potential of Ce complexes to function both as a Lewis acid and an electron source in redox chemistry and organic-substrate activation.
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