Quantum mechanical calculations, using both CASPT2 and DFT methods, for the model systems (MeMMMe, PhMMPh, (MeMMMe)(C6H6)2, Ar(S)MMAr(S), Ar (#)MMAr(#); M = Cr, Fe, Co; Ar(S) = C6H4-2(C6H5), Ar(#) = C6H3-2,6(C6H3-2,6-Me2)2) are described. These studies were undertaken to provide a multireference description of the metal-metal bond in the simple dimers MeMMMe and PhMMPh (M = Cr, Fe, Co) and to determine the extent of secondary metal-arene interaction involving the flanking aryl rings of the terphenyl ligands in quintuply bonded Ar'CrCrAr' (Ar' = C6H3-2,6(C6H3-2,6-Pr(i)2)2). We show that in the Cr-Cr species the Cr-arene interaction is a feeble one that causes only a small weakening of the quintuple bond. In sharp contrast, in the analogous Fe and Co species strong eta(6)-arene interactions that preclude significant metal-metal bonding are predicted.
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January 2008
Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK.
Sterically encumbered amido ligands based on a 1,8-diarylcarbazol-9-yl backbone have been investigated as electronically distinct alternatives to the widely-used terphenyl ligand class in the stabilization of low-coordinate metal complexes, and structurally characterized for the first time. While 1,8-diphenylcarbazol-9-yl derivatives are readily available, facile rotation about the Cipso-Cipso bonds leads to structurally characterized main group derivatives {e.g.
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April 2008
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields AVenue, Davis,California 95616, USA.
Quantum mechanical calculations, using both CASPT2 and DFT methods, for the model systems (MeMMMe, PhMMPh, (MeMMMe)(C6H6)2, Ar(S)MMAr(S), Ar (#)MMAr(#); M = Cr, Fe, Co; Ar(S) = C6H4-2(C6H5), Ar(#) = C6H3-2,6(C6H3-2,6-Me2)2) are described. These studies were undertaken to provide a multireference description of the metal-metal bond in the simple dimers MeMMMe and PhMMPh (M = Cr, Fe, Co) and to determine the extent of secondary metal-arene interaction involving the flanking aryl rings of the terphenyl ligands in quintuply bonded Ar'CrCrAr' (Ar' = C6H3-2,6(C6H3-2,6-Pr(i)2)2). We show that in the Cr-Cr species the Cr-arene interaction is a feeble one that causes only a small weakening of the quintuple bond.
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May 2007
Neurochemistry and Physical Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.
Detailed physicochemical features inherent in the dynamic cation-pi interactions of aromatic amino acid side chains in the secondary coordination spheres around metal ions were extracted and mapped by intrinsic tyrosine fluorescence titration experiments with two homologous, artificially engineered metal-binding scaffolds which mimic metal-binding sites in metalloproteins. A newly formulated method for the treatment of fluorescence titration data allows straightforward assessment of both the magnitudes and properties of metal-chelation-assisted cation-aromatic interactions (K2) underlying a proposed two-step metallosupramolecular association process. The unprecedented linear platform-motif correlations between the two contrasting scaffolds in their changes in tyrosine fluorescence on binding of 3d metal cations help to elucidate the properties of general cation-arene recognition corresponding to the metal-responsive characteristics of the second-shell Tyr residue surrounding the metal-binding sites in the supramolecular context, and thereby define a new noncovalent design principle for metal-ion recognition in aqueous solution.
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