TY - JOUR
T1 - Trapping iron(III)-Oxo species at the boundary of the "oxo Wall"
T2 - Insights into the nature of the Fe(III)-O bond
AU - Andris, Erik
AU - Navrátil, Rafael
AU - Jašík, Juraj
AU - Puri, Mayank
AU - Costas, Miquel
AU - Que, Lawrence
AU - Roithovaá, Jana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/10/30
Y1 - 2019/10/30
N2 - Terminal non-heme iron(IV)-oxo compounds are among the most powerful and best studied oxidants of strong C-H bonds. In contrast to the increasing number of such complexes (>80 thus far), corresponding one-electron-reduced derivatives are much rarer and presumably less stable, and only two iron(III)-oxo complexes have been characterized to date, both of which are stabilized by hydrogen-bonding interactions. Herein we have employed gas-phase techniques to generate and identify a series of terminal iron(III)-oxo complexes, all without built-in hydrogen bonding. Some of these complexes exhibit ~70 cm-1 decrease in ν(Fe-O) frequencies expected for a half-order decrease in bond order upon one-electron reduction to an S = 5/2 center, while others have ν(Fe-O) frequencies essentially unchanged from those of their parent iron(IV)-oxo complexes. The latter result suggests that the added electron does not occupy a d orbital with Fe=O antibonding character, requiring an S = 3/2 spin assignment for the nascent FeIII-O- species. In the latter cases, water is found to hydrogen bond to the FeIII-O- unit, resulting in a change from quartet to sextet spin state. Reactivity studies also demonstrate the extraordinary basicity of these iron(III)-oxo complexes. Our observations show that metal-oxo species at the boundary of the "Oxo Wall" are accessible, and the data provide a lead to detect iron(III)-oxo intermediates in biological and biomimetic reactions.
AB - Terminal non-heme iron(IV)-oxo compounds are among the most powerful and best studied oxidants of strong C-H bonds. In contrast to the increasing number of such complexes (>80 thus far), corresponding one-electron-reduced derivatives are much rarer and presumably less stable, and only two iron(III)-oxo complexes have been characterized to date, both of which are stabilized by hydrogen-bonding interactions. Herein we have employed gas-phase techniques to generate and identify a series of terminal iron(III)-oxo complexes, all without built-in hydrogen bonding. Some of these complexes exhibit ~70 cm-1 decrease in ν(Fe-O) frequencies expected for a half-order decrease in bond order upon one-electron reduction to an S = 5/2 center, while others have ν(Fe-O) frequencies essentially unchanged from those of their parent iron(IV)-oxo complexes. The latter result suggests that the added electron does not occupy a d orbital with Fe=O antibonding character, requiring an S = 3/2 spin assignment for the nascent FeIII-O- species. In the latter cases, water is found to hydrogen bond to the FeIII-O- unit, resulting in a change from quartet to sextet spin state. Reactivity studies also demonstrate the extraordinary basicity of these iron(III)-oxo complexes. Our observations show that metal-oxo species at the boundary of the "Oxo Wall" are accessible, and the data provide a lead to detect iron(III)-oxo intermediates in biological and biomimetic reactions.
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U2 - 10.1021/jacs.8b08950
DO - 10.1021/jacs.8b08950
M3 - Article
C2 - 30336001
AN - SCOPUS:85055336486
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 140
SP - 14391
EP - 14400
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 43
ER -