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Lim H, Brueggemeyer MT, Transue WJ, Meier KK, Jones SM, Kroll T, Sokaras D, Kelemen B, Hedman B, Hodgson KO, Solomon EI. Kβ X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Cu(I)-Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase: Direct Observation of the Frontier Molecular Orbital for H 2O 2 Activation. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:16015-16025. [PMID: 37441786 PMCID: PMC10557184 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c04048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
Abstract
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) catalyze the degradation of recalcitrant carbohydrate polysaccharide substrates. These enzymes are characterized by a mononuclear Cu(I) active site with a three-coordinate T-shaped "His-brace" configuration including the N-terminal histidine and its amine group as ligands. This study explicitly investigates the electronic structure of the d10 Cu(I) active site in a LPMO using Kβ X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES). The lack of inversion symmetry in the His-brace site enables the 3d/p mixing required for intensity in the Kβ valence-to-core (VtC) XES spectrum of Cu(I)-LPMO. These Kβ XES data are correlated to density functional theory (DFT) calculations to define the bonding, and in particular, the frontier molecular orbital (FMO) of the Cu(I) site. These experimentally validated DFT calculations are used to evaluate the reaction coordinate for homolytic cleavage of the H2O2 O-O bond and understand the contribution of this FMO to the low barrier of this reaction and how the geometric and electronic structure of the Cu(I)-LPMO site is activated for rapid reactivity with H2O2.
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- Hyeongtaek Lim
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- IFF Health and Biosciences, Palo Alto, California 94304, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Kim B, Brueggemeyer MT, Transue WJ, Park Y, Cho J, Siegler MA, Solomon EI, Karlin KD. Fenton-like Chemistry by a Copper(I) Complex and H 2O 2 Relevant to Enzyme Peroxygenase C-H Hydroxylation. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:11735-11744. [PMID: 37195014 PMCID: PMC10364799 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c02273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases have received significant attention as catalytic convertors of biomass to biofuel. Recent studies suggest that its peroxygenase activity (i.e., using H2O2 as an oxidant) is more important than its monooxygenase functionality. Here, we describe new insights into peroxygenase activity, with a copper(I) complex reacting with H2O2 leading to site-specific ligand-substrate C-H hydroxylation. [CuI(TMG3tren)]+ (1) (TMG3tren = 1,1,1-Tris{2-[N2-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylguanidino)]ethyl}amine) and a dry source of hydrogen peroxide, (o-Tol3P═O·H2O2)2 react in the stoichiometry, [CuI(TMG3tren)]+ + H2O2 → [CuI(TMG3tren-OH)]+ + H2O, wherein a ligand N-methyl group undergoes hydroxylation giving TMG3tren-OH. Furthermore, Fenton-type chemistry (CuI + H2O2 → CuII-OH + ·OH) is displayed, in which (i) a Cu(II)-OH complex could be detected during the reaction and it could be separately isolated and characterized crystallographically and (ii) hydroxyl radical (·OH) scavengers either quenched the ligand hydroxylation reaction and/or (iii) captured the ·OH produced.
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- Bohee Kim
- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Emerging Materials Science, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Transue WJ, Snyder RA, Caranto JD, Kurtz DM, Solomon EI. Particle Swarm Fitting of Spin Hamiltonians: Magnetic Circular Dichroism of Reduced and NO-Bound Flavodiiron Protein. Inorg Chem 2022; 61:16520-16527. [PMID: 36223761 PMCID: PMC9942269 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c02234] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
A particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is described for the fitting of ground-state spin Hamiltonian parameters from variable-temperature/variable-field (VTVH) magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) data. This PSO algorithm is employed to define the ground state of two catalytic intermediates from a flavodiiron protein (FDP), a class of enzymes with nitric oxide reductase activity. The bimetallic iron active site of this enzyme proceeds through a biferrous intermediate and a mixed ferrous-{FeNO}7 intermediate during the catalytic cycle, and the MCD spectra of these intermediates are presented and analyzed. The fits of the spin Hamiltonians are shown to provide important geometric and electronic insight into these species that is compared and contrasted with previous reports.
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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Jose A, Schaefer AW, Roveda AC, Transue WJ, Choi SK, Ding Z, Gennis RB, Solomon EI. The three-spin intermediate at the O-O cleavage and proton-pumping junction in heme-Cu oxidases. Science 2021; 373:1225-1229. [PMID: 34516790 DOI: 10.1126/science.abh3209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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[Figure: see text].
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- Anex Jose
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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Transue WJ, Dai Y, Riu MLY, Wu G, Cummins CC. 31P NMR Chemical Shift Tensors: Windows into Ruthenium Phosphinidene Complex Electronic Structures. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:9254-9258. [PMID: 34152768 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Abstract
A series of octamethylcalix[4]pyrrole/ruthenium phosphinidene complexes (Na2[1=PR]) can be accessed by phosphinidene transfer from the corresponding RPA (A = C14H10, anthracene) compounds (R = tBu, iPr, OEt, NH2, NMe2, NEt2, NiPr2, NA, dimethylpiperidino). Isolation of the tert-butyl and dimethylamino derivatives allowed comparative studies of their 31P nuclear shielding tensors by magic-angle-spinning solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Density functional theory and natural chemical shielding analyses reveal the relationship between the 31P chemical shift tensor and the local ruthenium/phosphorus electronic structure. The general trend observed in the 31P isotropic chemical shifts for the ruthenium phosphinidene complexes was controlled by the degree of deshielding in the δ11 principal tensor component, which can be linked to the σRuP/πRuP* energy gap. A "δ22-δ33 crossover" effect for R = tBu was also observed, which was caused by different degrees of deshielding associated with polarizations of the σPR and σPR* natural bond orbitals.
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- Wesley J Transue
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Riu MLY, Transue WJ, Rall JM, Cummins CC. An Azophosphine Synthetic Equivalent of Mesitylphosphaazide and Its 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:7635-7640. [PMID: 33999612 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Dibenzo-7-phosphanorbornadiene-substituted diazene MesN2PA (1, where Mes = mesityl, A = anthracene, or C14H10), a synthetic equivalent of mesitylphosphaazide (MesN2P) and anthracene, was synthesized by treatment of [Ph3BPA][Na(OEt2)2] with [MesN2]OTf (OTf = CF3SO3-) in thawing tetrahydrofuran (14% isolated yield). Treatment of 1 with unsaturated molecules cyclooctyne, [Na(dioxane)2.5][OCP] (phosphaethynolate), and Ad-C≡P (Ad = adamantyl) results in the corresponding [3 + 2] phosphaazide-(phospha)alkyne cycloadducts, with concomitant loss of anthracene in 65%, 49%, and 38% isolated yield, respectively. Structural data for the phosphaethynolate cycloadduct ([3][Na(12-crown-4)2]) were obtained in a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. A diazatriphosphole was generated by combining 1 with P2A2, a thermally activated anthracene-based molecular precursor to diphosphorus (P2). Thermolysis (33-65 °C) of 1 in benzene-d6 leads to anthracene extrusion. This process has a unimolecular kinetic profile and proceeds with activation parameters of ΔH⧧ = 21.6 ± 0.3 kcal/mol and ΔS⧧= -4.9 ± 0.8 cal/(mol K).
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- Martin-Louis Y Riu
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Bhadra M, Transue WJ, Lim H, Cowley RE, Lee JYC, Siegler MA, Josephs P, Henkel G, Lerch M, Schindler S, Neuba A, Hodgson KO, Hedman B, Solomon EI, Karlin KD. A Thioether-Ligated Cupric Superoxide Model with Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Reactivity. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:3707-3713. [PMID: 33684290 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c00260] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
The central role of cupric superoxide intermediates proposed in hormone and neurotransmitter biosynthesis by noncoupled binuclear copper monooxygenases like dopamine-β-monooxygenase has drawn significant attention to the unusual methionine ligation of the CuM ("CuB") active site characteristic of this class of enzymes. The copper-sulfur interaction has proven critical for turnover, raising still-unresolved questions concerning Nature's selection of an oxidizable Met residue to facilitate C-H oxygenation. We describe herein a model for CuM, [(TMGN3S)CuI]+ ([1]+), and its O2-bound analog [(TMGN3S)CuII(O2•-)]+ ([1·O2]+). The latter is the first reported cupric superoxide with an experimentally proven Cu-S bond which also possesses demonstrated hydrogen atom abstraction (HAA) reactivity. Introduction of O2 to a precooled solution of the cuprous precursor [1]B(C6F5)4 (-135 °C, 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (2-MeTHF)) reversibly forms [1·O2]B(C6F5)4 (UV/vis spectroscopy: λmax 442, 642, 742 nm). Resonance Raman studies (413 nm) using 16O2 [18O2] corroborated the identity of [1·O2]+ by revealing Cu-O (446 [425] cm-1) and O-O (1105 [1042] cm-1) stretches, and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy showed a Cu-S interatomic distance of 2.55 Å. HAA reactivity between [1·O2]+ and TEMPO-H proceeds rapidly (1.28 × 10-1 M-1 s-1, -135 °C, 2-MeTHF) with a primary kinetic isotope effect of kH/kD = 5.4. Comparisons of the O2-binding behavior and redox activity of [1]+ vs [2]+, the latter a close analog of [1]+ but with all N atom ligation (i.e., N3S vs N4), are presented.
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- Mayukh Bhadra
- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Paderborn D-33098, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Paderborn D-33098, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Justus-Liebig University of Gießen, Giessen D-35392, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Justus-Liebig University of Gießen, Giessen D-35392, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Paderborn D-33098, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States.,Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States.,Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Affiliation(s)
- Martin-Louis Y. Riu
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Riu MLY, Jones RL, Transue WJ, Müller P, Cummins CC. Isolation of an elusive phosphatetrahedrane. Sci Adv 2020; 6:eaaz3168. [PMID: 32232162 PMCID: PMC7096166 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz3168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
This exploratory synthesis investigation was undertaken to determine the viability of replacing a single carbon vertex with another p-block element in a highly strained tetrahedrane molecule. Phosphorus was selected for this purpose because the stable molecular form of elemental phosphorus is tetrahedral. Our synthetic strategy was to generate an unsaturated phosphorus center bonded to a substituted cyclopropenyl group, a situation that could lead to closure to provide the desired phosphatetrahedrane framework. This was accomplished by dehydrofluorination of the in situ generated fluorophosphine H(F)P(C t Bu)3. Tri-tert-butyl phosphatetrahedrane, P(C t Bu)3, was then isolated in 19% yield as a low-melting, volatile, colorless solid and characterized spectroscopically and by a single-crystal x-ray diffraction study, confirming the tetrahedral nature of the molecule's PC3 core. The molecule exhibits unexpected thermal stability.
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Geeson MB, Transue WJ, Cummins CC. Identification of Reactive Intermediates Relevant to Dimethylgermylene Group Transfer Reactions of an Anthracene-Based Precursor. Organometallics 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Michael B. Geeson
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Geeson MB, Transue WJ, Cummins CC. Organoiron- and Fluoride-Catalyzed Phosphinidene Transfer to Styrenic Olefins in a Stereoselective Synthesis of Unprotected Phosphiranes. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:13336-13340. [PMID: 31408599 PMCID: PMC6727668 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b07069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [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: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
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Catalytic
phosphiranation has been achieved, allowing preparation
of trans-1-R-2-phenylphosphiranes (R = t-Bu: 1-t-Bu; i-Pr: 1-i-Pr) from the corresponding dibenzo-7-(R)-7-phospha-norbornadiene
(RPA, A = C14H10,
anthracene) and styrene in 73% and 57% isolated yields, respectively.
The cocatalyst system requires tetramethylammonium fluoride (TMAF)
and [Fp(THF)][BF4] (Fp = Fe(η5-C5H5)(CO)2). In the case of the t-Bu derivative, the reaction mechanism was probed using stoichiometric
reaction studies, a Hammett analysis, and a deuterium labeling experiment.
Together, these suggest the intermediacy of iron-phosphido FpP(F)(t-Bu) (2), generated independently from the
stoichiometric reaction of [Fp(t-BuPA)][BF4] with TMAF. Two other plausible reaction intermediates,
[Fp(t-BuPA)][BF4] and [Fp(1-t-Bu)][BF4], were prepared independently
and structurally characterized.
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- Michael B Geeson
- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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Engesser TA, Transue WJ, Weis P, Cummins CC, Krossing I. As–P vs. P–P Insertion in AsP
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: Kinetic Control of the Formation of [AsP
3
NO]
+. Eur J Inorg Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201900267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Tobias A. Engesser
- Institut für Anorganische Chemie Christian‐Albrechts‐Universität zu Kiel Max‐Eyth‐Straße 2 24118 Kiel Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 02139 Cambridge Massachusetts USA
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- Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie Albert‐Ludwigs‐Universität Freiburg und Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF) Albertstr. 21 79104 Freiburg Germany
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- Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 02139 Cambridge Massachusetts USA
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- Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie Albert‐Ludwigs‐Universität Freiburg und Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF) Albertstr. 21 79104 Freiburg Germany
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Geeson MB, Ríos P, Transue WJ, Cummins CC. Orthophosphate and Sulfate Utilization for C-E (E = P, S) Bond Formation via Trichlorosilyl Phosphide and Sulfide Anions. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:6375-6384. [PMID: 30901207 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b01475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Reduction of phosphoric acid (H3PO4) or tetra- n-butylammonium bisulfate ([TBA][HSO4]) with trichlorosilane leads to the formation of the bis(trichlorosilyl)phosphide ([P(SiCl3)2]-, 1) and trichlorosilylsulfide ([Cl3SiS]-, 2) anions, respectively. Balanced equations for the formation of the TBA salts of anions 1 and 2 were formulated based on the identification of hexachlorodisiloxane and hydrogen gas as byproducts arising from these reductive processes: i) [H2PO4]- + 10HSiCl3 → 1 + 4O(SiCl3)2 + 6H2 for P and ii) [HSO4]- + 9HSiCl3 → 2 + 4O(SiCl3)2 + 5H2 for S. Hydrogen gas was identified by its subsequent use to hydrogenate an alkene ((-)-terpinen-4-ol) using Crabtree's catalyst ([(COD)Ir(py)(PCy3)][PF6], COD = 1,5-cyclooctadiene, py = pyridine, Cy = cyclohexyl). Phosphide 1 was generated in situ by the reaction of phosphoric acid and trichlorosilane and used to convert an alkyl chloride (1-chlorooctane) to the corresponding primary phosphine, which was isolated in 41% yield. Anion 1 was also prepared from [TBA][H2PO4] and isolated in 62% yield on a gram scale. Treatment of [TBA]1 with an excess of benzyl chloride leads to the formation of tetrabenzylphosphonium chloride, which was isolated in 61% yield. Sulfide 2 was used as a thionation reagent, converting benzophenone to thiobenzophenone in 62% yield. It also converted benzyl bromide to benzyl mercaptan in 55% yield. The TBA salt of trimetaphosphate ([TBA]3[P3O9]·2H2O), also a precursor to anion 1, was found to react with either trichlorosilane or silicon(IV) chloride to provide bis(trimetaphosphate)silicate, [TBA]2[Si(P3O9)2], characterized by NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and elemental analysis. Trichlorosilane reduction of [TBA]2[Si(P3O9)2] also provided anion 1. The electronic structures of 1 and 2 were investigated using a suite of theoretical methods; the computational studies suggest that the trichlorosilyl ligand is a good π-acceptor and forms σ-bonds with a high degree of s character.
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- Michael B Geeson
- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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Transue WJ, Nava M, Terban MW, Yang J, Greenberg MW, Wu G, Foreman ES, Mustoe CL, Kennepohl P, Owen JS, Billinge SJL, Kulik HJ, Cummins CC. Anthracene as a Launchpad for a Phosphinidene Sulfide and for Generation of a Phosphorus–Sulfur Material Having the Composition P2S, a Vulcanized Red Phosphorus That Is Yellow. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 141:431-440. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Wesley J. Transue
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart 70569, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L3N6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Chemistry Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T1Z1, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Transue WJ, Yang J, Nava M, Sergeyev IV, Barnum TJ, McCarthy MC, Cummins CC. Synthetic and Spectroscopic Investigations Enabled by Modular Synthesis of Molecular Phosphaalkyne Precursors. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:17985-17991. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Wesley J. Transue
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Bruker BioSpin Corporation, Billerica, Massachusetts 01821, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Harvard−Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Yuan QQ, Yang Z, Li RZ, Transue WJ, Li ZP, Jiang L, Govind N, Cummins CC, Wang XB. Magnetic-Bottle and velocity-map imaging photoelectron spectroscopy of APS− (A=C14H10 or anthracene): Electron structure, spin-orbit coupling of APS•, and dipole-bound state of APS−. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2018. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/31/cjcp1805114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- Qin-qin Yuan
- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P. O. Box 999, MS K8-88, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P. O. Box 999, MS K8-88, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P. O. Box 999, MS K8-88, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P. O. Box 999, MS K8-88, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P. O. Box 999, MS K8-91, Richland WA 99352, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P. O. Box 999, MS K8-88, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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Joost M, Transue WJ, Cummins CC. Diazomethane umpolung atop anthracene: an electrophilic methylene transfer reagent. Chem Sci 2018; 9:1540-1543. [PMID: 29675198 PMCID: PMC5890322 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc04506a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [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: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Formal addition of diazomethane's terminal nitrogen atom to the 9,10-positions of anthracene yields H2CN2A (1, A = C14H10 or anthracene).
Formal addition of diazomethane's terminal nitrogen atom to the 9,10-positions of anthracene yields H2CN2A (1, A = C14H10 or anthracene). The synthesis of this hydrazone is reported from Carpino's hydrazine H2N2A through treatment with paraformaldehyde. Compound 1 has been found to be an easy-to-handle solid that does not exhibit dangerous heat or shock sensitivity. Effective umpolung of the diazomethane unit imbues 1 with electrophilicity at the methylene carbon center. Its reactivity with nucleophiles such as H2CPPh3 and N-heterocyclic carbenes is exploited for C
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C bond formation with elimination of dinitrogen and anthracene. Similarly, 1 is demonstrated to deliver methylene to a nucleophilic singlet d2 transition metal center, W(ODipp)4 (2), to generate the robust methylidene complex [2
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CH2]. This behavior is contrasted with that of the Wittig reagent H2CPPh3, a more traditional and Brønsted basic methylene source that upon exposure to 2 contrastingly forms the methylidyne salt [MePPh3][2
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- Maximilian Joost
- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , MA 02139 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , MA 02139 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , MA 02139 , USA .
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Transue WJ, Velian A, Nava M, García-Iriepa C, Temprado M, Cummins CC. Mechanism and Scope of Phosphinidene Transfer from Dibenzo-7-phosphanorbornadiene Compounds. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:10822-10831. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Wesley J. Transue
- Department
of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Universidad de Alcalá, Department of Analytical
Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering, Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona Km. 33,600, Madrid 28871, Spain
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- Universidad de Alcalá, Department of Analytical
Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering, Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona Km. 33,600, Madrid 28871, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Hou GL, Chen B, Transue WJ, Yang Z, Grützmacher H, Driess M, Cummins CC, Borden WT, Wang XB. Spectroscopic Characterization, Computational Investigation, and Comparisons of ECX– (E = As, P, and N; X = S and O) Anions. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:8922-8930. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b02984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Gao-Lei Hou
- Physical
Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Baker
Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Physical
Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Applied Biology, ETH-Hönggerberg, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry: Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and
Modeling, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017, United States
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- Physical
Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Joost M, Nava M, Transue WJ, Cummins CC. An exploding N-isocyanide reagent formally composed of anthracene, dinitrogen and a carbon atom. Chem Commun (Camb) 2017; 53:11500-11503. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cc06516g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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An anthracene-based N-isocyanide was synthesized and its reactivity studied. This sensitive compound was structurally characterized as a free species and as a ligand in a ruthenium complex, and underwent C-atom transfer upon treatment with an O-atom donor to evolve CO.
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- Maximilian Joost
- Department of Chemistry
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cambridge
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cambridge
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cambridge
- USA
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Treatment of a four-coordinate tungsten(iv) complex with pnictaethynolate ions installs terminal tungsten–nitrogen, –phosphorus, and –arsenic triple bondsviadecarbonylation.
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- Maximilian Joost
- Department of Chemistry
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cambridge
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Cambridge
- USA
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Toward the preparation of a coordination complex of the heterodiatomic molecule PN, P≡N-V(N[tBu]Ar)3 (1, Ar = 3,5-Me2C6H3), we report the use of ClPA (A = C14H10, anthracene) as a formal source of phosphorus(I) in its reaction with Na[NV(N[tBu]Ar)3] (Na[4]) to yield trimeric cyclo-triphosphane [PNV(N[tBu]Ar)3]3 (3) with a core composed exclusively of phosphorus and nitrogen. In the presence of NapS2 (peri-1,8-naphthalene disulfide), NapS2P-NV(N[tBu]Ar)3 (6) is instead generated in 80% yield, suggesting trapping of transient 1. Upon mild heating, 3 readily fragments into dimeric [PNV(N[tBu]Ar)3]2 (2), while in the presence of bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene or cis-4-octene, the respective phosphirene (Ar[tBu]N)3VN-PC2(SiMe3)2 (7) or phosphirane (Ar[tBu]N)3VN-P(C8H16) (8) compounds are generated. Kinetic data were found to be consistent with unimolecular decay of 3, and [2+1]-cycloaddition with radical clocks ruled out a triplet intermediate, consistent with intermediate 1 reacting as a singlet phosphinidene. In addition, both 7 and 8 were shown to reversibly exchange cis-4-octene and bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene, serving as formal sources of 1, a reactivity manifold traditionally reserved for transition metals.
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- Marc-André Courtemanche
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Hou GL, Chen B, Transue WJ, Hrovat DA, Cummins CC, Borden WT, Wang XB. A Joint Experimental and Computational Study of the Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy of the 1-Phospha-2,3,4-triazolate Anion, HCPN3(.). J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:6228-35. [PMID: 27434547 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b06343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We report here the results of a combined experimental and computational study of the negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy (NIPES) of the recently synthesized, planar, aromatic, HCPN3(-) ion. The adiabatic electron detachment energy of HCPN3(-) (electron affinity of HCPN3(•)) was measured to be 3.555 ± 0.010 eV, a value that is intermediate between the electron detachment energies of the closely related (CH)2N3(-) and P2N3(-) ions. High level electronic structure calculations and Franck-Condon factor (FCF) simulations reveal that transitions from the ground state of the anion to two nearly degenerate, low-lying, electronic states, of the neutral HCPN3(•) radical are responsible for the congested peaks at low binding energies in the NIPE spectrum. The best fit of the simulated NIPE spectrum to the experimental spectrum indicates that the ground state of HCPN3(•) is a 5π-electron (2)A″ π radical state, with a 6π-electron, (2)A', σ radical state being at most 1.0 kcal/mol higher in energy.
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- Gao-Lei Hou
- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , P.O. Box 999, MS K8-88, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling, University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling, University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle, #305070, Denton, Texas 76203-5017, United States
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , P.O. Box 999, MS K8-88, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Porras JA, Mills IN, Transue WJ, Bernhard S. Highly Fluorinated Ir(III)-2,2':6',2″-Terpyridine-Phenylpyridine-X Complexes via Selective C-F Activation: Robust Photocatalysts for Solar Fuel Generation and Photoredox Catalysis. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:9460-72. [PMID: 27387149 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b03246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A series of fluorinated Ir(III)-terpyridine-phenylpyridine-X (X = anionic monodentate ligand) complexes were synthesized by selective C-F activation, whereby perfluorinated phenylpyridines were readily complexed. The combination of fluorinated phenylpyridine ligands with an electron-rich tri-tert-butyl terpyridine ligand generates a "push-pull" force on the electrons upon excitation, imparting significant enhancements to the stability, electrochemical, and photophysical properties of the complexes. Application of the complexes as photosensitizers for photocatalytic generation of hydrogen from water and as redox photocatalysts for decarboxylative fluorination of several carboxylic acids showcases the performance of the complexes in highly coordinating solvents, in some cases exceeding that of the leading photosensitizers. Changes in the photophysical properties and the nature of the excited states are observed as the compounds increase in fluorination as well as upon exchange of the ancillary chloride ligand to a cyanide. These changes in the excited states have been corroborated using density functional theory modeling.
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- Jonathan A Porras
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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Hou GL, Chen B, Transue WJ, Hrovat DA, Cummins CC, Borden WT, Wang XB. Negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy of P 2N 3-: electron affinity and electronic structures of P 2N 3˙. Chem Sci 2016; 7:4667-4675. [PMID: 30155115 PMCID: PMC6013798 DOI: 10.1039/c5sc04667j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [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: 12/04/2015] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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We report here a negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy (NIPES) and ab initio study of the recently synthesized planar aromatic inorganic ion P2N3-, to investigate the electronic structures of P2N3- and its neutral P2N3˙ radical. The adiabatic detachment energy of P2N3- (electron affinity of P2N3˙) was determined to be 3.765 ± 0.010 eV, indicating high stability for the P2N3- anion. Ab initio electronic structure calculations reveal the existence of five, low-lying, electronic states in the neutral P2N3˙ radical. Calculation of the Franck-Condon factors (FCFs) for each anion-to-neutral electronic transition and comparison of the resulting simulated NIPE spectrum with the vibrational structure in the observed spectrum allows the first four excited states of P2N3˙ to be determined to lie 6.2, 6.7, 11.5, and 22.8 kcal mol-1 above the ground state of the radical, which is found to be a 6π-electron, 2A1, σ state.
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- Gao-Lei Hou
- Physical Sciences Division , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , P. O. Box 999, MS K8-88 , Richland , WA 99352 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , NY 14853 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , MA 02139 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle, #305070 , Denton , Texas 76203-5017 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , MA 02139 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and the Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle, #305070 , Denton , Texas 76203-5017 , USA .
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- Physical Sciences Division , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , P. O. Box 999, MS K8-88 , Richland , WA 99352 , USA .
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Transue WJ, Velian A, Nava M, Martin-Drumel MA, Womack CC, Jiang J, Hou GL, Wang XB, McCarthy MC, Field RW, Cummins CC. A Molecular Precursor to Phosphaethyne and Its Application in Synthesis of the Aromatic 1,2,3,4-Phosphatriazolate Anion. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:6731-4. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b03910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Wesley J. Transue
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Harvard−Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Alexandra Velian
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Chirdon DN, Transue WJ, Kagalwala HN, Kaur A, Maurer AB, Pintauer T, Bernhard S. [Ir(N^N^N)(C^N)L]+: a new family of luminophores combining tunability and enhanced photostability. Inorg Chem 2014; 53:1487-99. [PMID: 24437359 DOI: 10.1021/ic402411g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The relatively unexplored luminophore architecture [Ir(N^N^N)(C^N)L](+) (N^N^N = tridentate polypyridyl ligand, C^N = 2-phenylpyridine derivative, and L = monodentate anionic ligand) offers the stability of tridentate polypyridyl coordination along with the tunability of three independently variable ligands. Here, a new family of these luminophores has been prepared based on the previously reported compound [Ir(tpy)(ppy)Cl](+) (tpy = 2,2':6',2″-terpyridine and ppy = 2-phenylpyridine). Complexes are obtained as single stereoisomers, and ligand geometry is unambiguously assigned via X-ray crystallography. Electrochemical analysis of the materials reveals facile HOMO modulation through ppy functionalization and alteration of the monodentate ligand's field strength. Emission reflects similar modulation shifting from orange to greenish-blue upon replacement of chloride with cyanide. Many of the new compounds exhibit impressive room temperature phosphorescence with lifetimes near 3 μs and quantum yields reaching 28.6%. Application of the new luminophores as photosensitizers for photocatalytic hydrogen generation reveals that their photostability in coordinating solvent is enhanced as compared to popular [Ir(ppy)2(bpy)](+) (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) photosensitizers. Yet, the binding of their monodentate ligand emerges as a source of instability during the redox processes of cyclic voltammetry and mass spectrometry. DFT modeling of electronic structure is provided for all compounds to elucidate experimental properties.
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- Danielle N Chirdon
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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