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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
卷 60, 期 13, 页码 9956-9969出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01233
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- VMI
- Summer Undergraduate Research Institute
- Wetmore Funds
- Jackson-Hope Funds
The research shows a strong correlation between the redox potentials of metal- and ligand-centered events with the Hammett parameters of aryl substituents. The introduction of a phenyl spacer results in a significant decrease in electron density, affecting the redox properties of homoleptic transition-metal complexes.
Homoleptic transition-metal complexes of 2,2':6',2 ''-terpyridine (terpy) and substituted derivatives of the form [M(R-terpy)(2)](2+) display a wide range of redox potentials that correlate well to the Hammett parameter of the terpy substituents. Less is known about the impact of incorporating a phenyl spacer between the functional group responsible for controlling the electron density of terpy and how that translates to metal complexes of the form [M(4'-aryl-terpy)(2)](2+), where M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Zn. Herein, we report our studies on these complexes revealed a good correlation of redox potentials of both metal- and ligand-centered events with the Hammett parameters of the aryl substituents, regardless of aryl-substitution pattern (i.e., the presence of multiple functional groups, combinations of withdrawing and donating functional groups). The phenyl spacer results in 60-80% attenuation of electron density as compared to the 4'-substituted terpy analogue, depending on the metal and redox couple analyzed. Density functional theory calculations performed on a simple model system revealed a strong correlation between the Hammett parameters and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energies of the corresponding substituted pyridine models, thus serving as an inexpensive predictive tool when coupled with electrochemical data. Overall, these data suggest that such ligand modifications may be used in combination with previous approaches to further fine-tune the redox potentials of homoleptic transition-metal complexes, which may have applications in photochemical and electrochemical catalytic processes.
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