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pH Changes That Induce an Axial Ligand Effect on Nonheme Iron(IV) Oxo Complexes with an Appended Aminopropyl Functionality

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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
卷 60, 期 18, 页码 13821-13832

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01312

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  1. National Science Foundation [OAC-1531128]

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This study investigates the reactivity of biomimetic nonheme iron(IV) oxo complex towards olefin epoxidation through a combination of experimental and computational approaches. The results show that pH significantly affects the oxygen-atom-transfer reaction and the identity of the axial ligand influences the catalytic activity. Computational studies suggest that the change in OAT is due to electrostatic interactions of the pendant amine cation.
Nonheme iron enzymes often utilize a high-valent iron(IV) oxo species for the biosynthesis of natural products, but their high reactivity often precludes structural and functional studies of these complexes. In this work, a combined experimental and computational study is presented on a biomimetic nonheme iron(IV) oxo complex bearing an aminopyridine macrocyclic ligand and its reactivity toward olefin epoxidation upon changes in the identity and coordination ability of the axial ligand. Herein, we show a dramatic effect of the pH on the oxygen-atom-transfer (OAT) reaction with substrates. In particular, these changes have occurred because of protonation of the axial-bound pendant amine group, where its coordination to iron is replaced by a solvent molecule or anionic ligand. This axial ligand effect influences the catalysis, and we observe enhanced cyclooctene epoxidation yields and turnover numbers in the presence of the unbound protonated pendant amine group. Density functional theory studies were performed to support the experiments and highlight that replacement of the pendant amine with a neutral or anionic ligand dramatically lowers the rate-determining barriers of cyclooctene epoxidation. The computational work further establishes that the change in OAT is due to electrostatic interactions of the pendant amine cation that favorably affect the barrier heights.

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