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Johannessen K, Johansen MAL, Einrem RF, McCormick McPherson LJ, Alemayehu AB, Borisov SM, Ghosh A. Influence of Fluorinated Substituents on the Near-Infrared Phosphorescence of 5d Metallocorroles. ACS Org Inorg Au 2023; 3:241-245. [PMID: 37810408 PMCID: PMC10557119 DOI: 10.1021/acsorginorgau.3c00016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
Abstract
The influence of fluorinated substituents on the luminescent properties of rhenium-oxo, osmium-nitrido, and gold triarylcorroles was studied via a comparison of four ligands: triphenylcorrole (TPC), tris(p-trifluoromethylphenyl)corrole (TpCF3PC), tris{3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl}corrole (T3,5-CF3PC), and tris(pentafluorophenyl)corrole (TPFPC). For each metal series examined, fluorinated substituents were found to enhance the luminescent properties, with the phosphorescence quantum yields and triplet decay times increasing in the order TPC < TpCF3PC < T3,5-CF3PC < TPFPC. Among the 11 complexes examined, the highest phosphorescence quantum yield, 2.2%, was recorded for Re[TPFPC](O).
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department
of Chemistry, UiT−The Arctic University
of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- EPSRC
National Crystallography Service, School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry, UiT−The Arctic University
of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Institute
of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Department
of Chemistry, UiT−The Arctic University
of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Einrem RF, Jonsson ET, Teat SJ, Settineri NS, Alemayehu AB, Ghosh A. Regioselective formylation of rhenium-oxo and gold corroles: substituent effects on optical spectra and redox potentials. RSC Adv 2021; 11:34086-34094. [PMID: 35497316 PMCID: PMC9042328 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra05525a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Vilsmeier–Haack formylation of ReO and Au meso-triarylcorroles over 16–18 hours affords moderate to good yields (47–65%) of the ReO-3-formyl and Au-3,17-diformyl derivatives in a highly regioselective manner. Formylation was found to effect substantial upshifts for redox potentials (especially the reduction potentials) as well as significant to dramatic redshifts for both the Soret and Q bands. Vilsmeier–Haack formylation of ReO and Au meso-triarylcorroles over 16–18 hours affords moderate to good yields (47–65%) of the ReO-3-formyl and Au-3,17-diformyl derivatives in a highly regioselective manner.![]()
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- Rune F Einrem
- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway N-9037 Tromsø Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway N-9037 Tromsø Norway
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720-8229 USA
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720-8229 USA.,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley California 94720 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway N-9037 Tromsø Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway N-9037 Tromsø Norway
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Alemayehu AB, Thomas KE, Einrem RF, Ghosh A. The Story of 5d Metallocorroles: From Metal-Ligand Misfits to New Building Blocks for Cancer Phototherapeutics. Acc Chem Res 2021; 54:3095-3107. [PMID: 34297542 PMCID: PMC8382219 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [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: 12/19/2022]
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Porphyrin chemistry is Shakespearean: over a
century of study has
not withered the field’s apparently infinite variety. Heme
proteins continually astonish us with novel molecular mechanisms,
while new porphyrin analogues bowl us over with unprecedented optical,
electronic, and metal-binding properties. Within the latter domain,
corroles occupy a special place, exhibiting a unique and rich coordination
chemistry. The 5d metallocorroles are arguably the icing on that cake. New Zealand chemist Penny Brothers has used the word “misfit”
to describe the interactions of boron, a small atom with a predilection
for tetrahedral coordination, and porphyrins, classic square-planar
ligands. Steve Jobs lionized misfits as those who see things differently
and push humanity forward. Both perspectives have inspired us. The
5d metallocorroles are misfits in that they encapsulate a large 5d
transition metal ion within the tight cavity of a contracted porphyrin
ligand. Given the steric mismatch inherent in their structures,
the syntheses
of some 5d metallocorroles are understandably capricious,
proceeding under highly specific conditions and affording poor yields.
Three broad approaches may be distinguished. (a) In the metal–alkyl approach, a free-base
corrole is exposed to an alkyllithium and the resulting lithio-corrole
is treated with an early transition metal chloride; a variant of the
method eschews alkyllithium and deploys a transition metal–alkyl
instead, resulting in elimination of the alkyl group as an alkane
and insertion of the metal into the corrole. This approach is useful
for inserting transition metals from groups 4, 5, and, to some extent,
6, as well as lanthanides and actinides. (b) In our laboratory,
we have often deployed a low-valent
organometallic approach for the middle transition elements
(groups 6, 7, 8, and 9). The reagents are low-valent metal–carbonyl
or −olefin complexes, which lose one or more carbon ligands
at high temperature, affording coordinatively unsaturated, sticky
metal fragments that are trapped by the corrole nitrogens. (c)
Finally, a metal acetate approach provides
the method of choice for gold and platinum insertion (groups 10 and
11). This Account provides a first-hand perspective
of the three approaches, focusing on the last two, which were largely
developed in our laboratory. In general, the products were characterized
with X-ray crystallography, electrochemistry, and a variety of spectroscopic
methods. The physicochemical data, supplemented by relativistic DFT
calculations, have provided fascinating insights into periodic trends
and relativistic effects. An unexpected feature of many 5d metallocorroles,
given their misfit
character, is their remarkable stability under thermal, chemical,
and photochemical stimulation. Many of them also exhibit long triplet
lifetimes on the order of 100 μs and effectively sensitize singlet
oxygen formation. Many exhibit phosphorescence in the near-infrared
under ambient conditions. Furthermore, water-soluble ReO and Au corroles
exhibit impressive photocytotoxicity against multiple cancer cell
lines, promising potential applications as cancer phototherapeutics.
We thus envision a bright future for the compounds as rugged building
blocks for new generations of therapeutic and diagnostic (theranostic)
agents.
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Affiliation(s)
- Abraham B. Alemayehu
- Department of Chemistry, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromso, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromso, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromso, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromso, Norway
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Thomassen IK, Rasmussen D, Einrem RF, Ghosh A. Simple, Axial Ligand-Mediated Route to Water-Soluble Iridium Corroles. ACS Omega 2021; 6:16683-16687. [PMID: 34235340 PMCID: PMC8246702 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c02399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
The synthesis and purification of water-soluble porphyrin-type compounds for photodynamic therapy and other medical applications is often a tedious exercise. Here, we have investigated the simple stratagem of adding a water-soluble axial ligand to the standard protocol for iridium insertion into simple meso-triarylcorroles. Early results showed that six-coordinate Ir[TpXPC](dna)2 derivatives, in which TpXPC = tris(para-X-phenyl)corrole (X = CF3, CN, H, and OMe) and dna = dinicotinic acid, are highly water-soluble. In the end, however, all axially nitrogen-ligated complexes proved unstable with respect to chromatographic purification and storage. Five-coordinate water-soluble phosphine adducts, fortunately, proved a great improvement. From the point of view of ease of purification and storage, the best products proved to be Ir[TpXPC](L), where X = CF3 and OMe and L = tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine (tcep) and trisodium tris(3-sulfonatophenyl)phosphine (tppts); carefully optimized synthetic protocols are presented for these four compounds.
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Alemayehu AB, Einrem RF, McCormick-McPherson LJ, Settineri NS, Ghosh A. Synthesis and molecular structure of perhalogenated rhenium-oxo corroles. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19727. [PMID: 33184456 PMCID: PMC7665048 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76308-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
As part of our efforts to develop rhenium-oxo corroles as photosensitizers for oxygen sensing and photodynamic therapy, we investigated the potential β-perhalogenation of five ReO meso-tris(para-X-phenyl)corroles, Re[TpXPC](O) (X = CF3, H, F, CH3, and OCH3), with elemental chlorine and bromine. With Cl2, β-octachlorinated products Re[Cl8TpXPC](O) were rapidly obtained for X = CF3, H, and CH3, but X = OCH3 resulted in overchlorination on the meso-aryl groups. Full β-octabromination proved slower relative to Cu and Ir corroles, but the desired Re[Br8TpXPC](O) products were finally obtained for X = H and F after a week at room temperature. For X = CH3 and OCH3, these conditions led to undecabrominated products Re[Br11TpXPC](O). Compared to the β-unsubstituted starting materials, the β-octahalogenated products were found to exhibit sharp 1H NMR signals at room temperature, indicating that the aryl groups are locked in place by the β-halogens, and substantially redshifted Soret and Q bands. Single-crystal X-ray structures of Re[Cl8TpCF3PC](O), Re[Cl8TpCH3PC](O), and Re[Br8TpFPC](O) revealed mild saddling for one Cl8 structure and the Br8 structure. These structural variations, however, appear too insignificant to explain the slowness of the β-octabromination protocols, which seems best attributed to the deactivating influence of the high-valent Re center.
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Affiliation(s)
- Abraham B Alemayehu
- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720-8229, USA.,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway.
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Einrem RF, Alemayehu AB, Borisov SM, Ghosh A, Gederaas OA. Amphiphilic Rhenium-Oxo Corroles as a New Class of Sensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy. ACS Omega 2020; 5:10596-10601. [PMID: 32426618 PMCID: PMC7227046 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c01090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
A set of rhenium(V)-oxo meso-triarylcorroles bearing ester and carboxylic acid functionalities were synthesized with a view to determining their potential for photodynamic therapy. Toward this end, we measured their near-IR phosphorescence and their ability to sensitize singlet oxygen formation. The two esters studied, ReVO 5,10,15-tris(meta-carbomethoxyphenyl)corrole and ReVO 5,10,15-tris(para-carbomethoxyphenyl)corrole, were found to exhibit phosphorescence quantum yields of around 1% and fairly long phosphorescence lifetimes of about 60 μs in toluene. The corresponding carboxylic acids, which were examined in ethanolic/aqueous media, in contrast, showed much lower phosphorescence quantum yields on the order of 0.01% and somewhat shorter phosphorescent lifetimes. The quantum yields for singlet oxygen formation, on the other hand, turned out to be equally high (0.72 ± 0.02) for the esters and corresponding carboxylic acids. For the two carboxylic acids, we also carried out photocytotoxicity measurements on rat bladder cancer cells (AY27) and human colon carcinoma cells (WiDr). Cell viability measurements (MTT assays) indicated 50% cell death (LD50) for AY27 cells upon 5 min of blue light exposure with the meta carboxylic acid and upon 7 min of exposure with the para carboxylic acid; complete cell death resulted after 20 min for both compounds. The WiDr cells proved less sensitive, and LD50 values were reached after 8 and 12 min illumination with the meta and para carboxylic acids, respectively.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rune F. Einrem
- Department
of Chemistry, UiT—The Arctic University
of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department
of Chemistry, UiT—The Arctic University
of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
| | - Sergey M. Borisov
- Institute
of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Department
of Chemistry, UiT—The Arctic University
of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department
of Clinical and Molecular Medicine and Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Borisov SM, Einrem RF, Alemayehu AB, Ghosh A. Ambient-temperature near-IR phosphorescence and potential applications of rhenium-oxo corroles. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2019; 18:1166-1170. [DOI: 10.1039/c8pp00473k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Abstract
Presented herein is a first photophysical investigation of a series rhenium(v)-oxo tris(p-X-phenyl)corroles, Re[TpXPC](O), where X = CF3, F, H, CH3, and OCH3.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sergey M. Borisov
- Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry
- Graz University of Technology
- 8010 Graz
- Austria
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- Department of Chemistry
- UiT
- The Arctic University of Norway
- N-9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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- Department of Chemistry
- UiT
- The Arctic University of Norway
- N-9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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Einrem RF, Braband H, Fox T, Vazquez-Lima H, Alberto R, Ghosh A. Synthesis and Molecular Structure of 99 Tc Corroles. Chemistry 2016; 22:18747-18751. [PMID: 27802367 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201605015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
The first 99 Tc corroles have been synthesized and fully characterized. A single-crystal X-ray structure of a 99 TcO triarylcorrole revealed nearly identical geometry parameters as the corresponding ReO structure. A significant spectral shift between the Soret maxima of TcO (410-413 nm) and ReO (438-441 nm) corroles was observed and, based on two-component spin-orbit ZORA TDDFT calculations, ascribed to relativistic effects in the Re case. The syntheses reported herein potentially pave the way toward 99m Tc-porphyrinoid-based radiopharmaceuticals.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rune F Einrem
- Department of Chemistry, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway
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Norheim HK, Capar J, Einrem RF, Gagnon KJ, Beavers CM, Vazquez-Lima H, Ghosh A. Ligand noninnocence in FeNO corroles: insights from β-octabromocorrole complexes. Dalton Trans 2016; 45:681-9. [DOI: 10.1039/c5dt03947a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
With a noninnocent {FeNO}7-(corrole˙2−) formulation, the first FeNO octabromocorrole derivatives deepen our appreciation of ligand noninnocence.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hans-Kristian Norheim
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
- 9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
- 9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
- 9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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- Advanced Light Source
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Berkeley
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
- 9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
- 9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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Einrem RF, Gagnon KJ, Alemayehu AB, Ghosh A. Metal-Ligand Misfits: Facile Access to Rhenium-Oxo Corroles by Oxidative Metalation. Chemistry 2015; 22:517-20. [PMID: 26639951 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201504307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
With the exception of a single accidental synthesis, rhenium corroles are unknown, but of great interest as catalysts and potential radiopharmaceuticals. Oxidative metalation of meso-triarylcorroles with [Re2 (CO)10 ] in refluxing decalin has provided a facile and relatively high-yielding route to rhenium(V)-oxo corroles. The complexes synthesized could all be fully characterized by single-crystal X-ray structure analyses.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rune F Einrem
- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø (Norway)
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720-8229 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø (Norway).
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- Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø (Norway).
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Abstract
Multiple lines of evidence, including electronic absorption spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and broken-symmetry DFT calculations, indicate that the well-known FeNO corroles, long assumed to be {FeNO}6 complexes, are in fact better described as {FeNO}7-(corrole˙2−).
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- Hugo Vazquez-Lima
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
- 9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
- 9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
- 9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
- 9037 Tromsø
- Norway
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