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Kühne IA, Ozarowski A, Sultan A, Esien K, Carter AB, Wix P, Casey A, Heerah-Booluck M, Keene TD, Müller-Bunz H, Felton S, Hill S, Morgan GG. Homochiral Mn 3+ Spin-Crossover Complexes: A Structural and Spectroscopic Study. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:3458-3471. [PMID: 35175771 PMCID: PMC8889584 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
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Structural, magnetic,
and spectroscopic data on a Mn3+ spin-crossover complex
with Schiff base ligand 4-OMe-Sal2323, isolated in crystal
lattices with five different counteranions,
are reported. Complexes of [Mn(4-OMe-Sal2323)]X where X
= ClO4– (1), BF4– (2), NO3– (3), Br– (4), and I– (5) crystallize isotypically in the chiral
orthorhombic space group P21212 with a range of spin state preferences for the [Mn(4-OMe-Sal2323)]+ complex cation over the temperature range
5–300 K. Complexes 1 and 2 are high-spin,
complex 4 undergoes a gradual and complete thermal spin
crossover, while complexes 3 and 5 show
stepped crossovers with different ratios of spin triplet and quintet
forms in the intermediate temperature range. High-field electron paramagnetic
resonance was used to measure the zero-field splitting parameters
associated with the spin triplet and quintet states at temperatures
below 10 K for complexes 4 and 2 with respective
values: DS=1 = +23.38(1) cm–1, ES=1 = +2.79(1) cm–1,
and DS=2 =
+6.9(3) cm–1, with a distribution of E parameters for the S = 2 state. Solid-state circular
dichroism (CD) spectra on high-spin complex 1 at room
temperature reveal a 2:1 ratio of enantiomers in the chiral conglomerate,
and solution CD measurements on the same sample in methanol show that
it is stable toward racemization. Solid-state UV–vis absorption
spectra on high-spin complex 1 and mixed S = 1/S = 2 sample 5 reveal different
intensities at higher energies, in line with the different electronic
composition. The statistical prevalence of homochiral crystallization
of [Mn(4-OMe-Sal2323)]+ in five lattices with
different achiral counterions suggests that the chirality may be directed
by the 4-OMe-Sal2323 ligand. Zero-field
splitting parameters of the spin triplet and
quintet forms of a spin-crossover Mn3+ complex stabilized
in lattices with different counterions are measured by high-field
electron paramagnetic resonance at different frequencies. The homochiral
crystallization of the enantiopure Δ or Λ forms of the
chelate complex, despite the use of achiral anions, is attributed
to the steric influence of the ligand substituent.
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Affiliation(s)
- Irina A Kühne
- School of Chemistry, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.,FZU - Institute of Physics - Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, Prague 8 182 21, Czech Republic
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- School of Chemistry, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- School of Chemistry & CRANN Institute & AMBER Centre, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School of Chemistry, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- School of Chemistry, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- School of Chemistry, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States.,Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, United States
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- School of Chemistry, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Lawson Daku LM. Spin-state dependence of the structural and vibrational properties of solvated iron( ii) polypyridyl complexes from AIMD simulations: III. [Fe(tpen)]Cl 2 in acetonitrile. RSC Adv 2020; 10:43343-43357. [PMID: 35519674 PMCID: PMC9058091 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra09499d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
In order to achieve an in-depth understanding of the role played by the solvent in the photoinduced low-spin (LS) → high-spin (HS) transition in solvated Fe(ii) complexes, an accurate description of the solvated complexes in the two spin states is required. To this end, we are applying state-of-the-art ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations to the study of the structural and vibrational properties of iron(ii) polypyridyl complexes. Two aqueous LS complexes were investigated in this framework, namely, [Fe(bpy)3]2+ (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine) [Lawson Daku and Hauser, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2010, 1, 1830; Lawson Daku, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 6236] and [Fe(tpy)2]2+ (tpy = 2,2′:6′,2′′-ter-pyridine) [Lawson Daku, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 650]. For aqueous [Fe(bpy)3]2+, combining the results of forefront wide-angle X-ray scattering experiments with those of the AIMD simulations allowed the visualization of the interlaced coordination and solvation spheres of the photoinduced HS state [Khakhulin et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 9277]. In this paper, we report the extension of our AIMD studies to the spin-crossover complex [Fe(tpen)]2+ (tpen = N,N,N′,N′-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine) in acetonitrile (ACN). The determined LS and HS solution structures of the complex are in excellent agreement with the experimental results obtained by high-resolution transient X-ray absorption spectroscopy [Zhang et al., ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 6375]. The first solvation shell of [Fe(tpen)]2+ consists of ACN molecules located in the grooves defined by the chelating coordination motif of the tpen ligand. Upon the LS → HS change of states, the solvation number of the complex is found to increase from ≈9.2 to ≈11.9 and an inner solvation shell is formed. This inner solvation shell originates from the occupancy by about one ACN molecule of the internal cavity which results from the arrangement of the 4 pyridine rings of the tpen ligand, and which becomes accessible to the solvent molecules in the HS state only thanks to the structural changes undergone by the complex. The presence of this inner solvation shell for the solvated HS complex probably plays a key role in the spin-state dependent reactivity of [Fe(tpen)]2+ in liquid solutions. AIMD study of the SCO [Fe(tpen)]2+ complex in acetonitrile: radial distribution functions and running coordination numbers characterizing its solvation structure in the HS state.![]()
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