A structural and Mössbauer study of complexes with Fe(2)(micro-O(H))(2) cores: stepwise oxidation from Fe(II)(micro-OH)(2)Fe(II) through Fe(II)(micro-OH)(2)Fe(III) to Fe(III)(micro-O)(micro-OH)Fe(III).
Dinuclear non-heme iron clusters containing oxo, hydroxo, or carboxylato bridges are found in a number of enzymes involved in O(2) metabolism such as methane monooxygenase, ribonucleotide reductase, and fatty acid desaturases. Efforts to model structural and/or functional features of the protein-bound clusters have prompted the preparation and study of complexes that contain Fe(micro-O(H))(2)Fe cores. Here we report the structures and spectroscopic properties of a family of diiron complexes with the same tetradentate N4 ligand in one ligand topology, namely [(alpha-BPMCN)(2)Fe(II)(2)(micro-OH)(2)](CF(3)SO(3))(2) (1), [(alpha-BPMCN)(2)Fe(II)Fe(III)(micro-OH)(2)](CF(3)SO(3))(3) (2), and [(alpha-BPMCN)(2)Fe(III)(2)(micro-O)(micro-OH)](CF(3)SO(3))(3) (3) (BPMCN = N,N'-dimethyl-N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane). Stepwise one-electron oxidations of 1 to 2 and then to 3 demonstrate the versatility of the Fe(micro-O(H))(2)Fe diamond core to support a number of oxidation states with little structural rearrangement. Insight into the electronic structure of 1, 2', and 3 has been obtained from a detailed Mössbauer investigation (2' differs from 2 in having a different complement of counterions). Mixed-valence complex 2' is ferromagnetically coupled, with J = -15 +/- 5 cm(-)(1) (H = JS(1).S(2)). For the S = (9)/(2) ground multiplet we have determined the zero-field splitting parameter, D(9/2) = -1.5 +/- 0.1 cm(-)(1), and the hyperfine parameters of the ferric and ferrous sites. For T < 12 K, the S = (9)/(2) multiplet has uncommon relaxation behavior. Thus, M(S) = -(9)/(2) <--> M(S) = +(9)/(2) ground state transition is slow while deltaM(S) = +/-1 transitions between equally signed M(S) levels are fast on the time scale of Mössbauer spectroscopy. Below 100 K, complex 2' is trapped in the Fe(1)(III)Fe(2)(II) ground state; above this temperature, it exhibits thermally assisted electron hopping into the state Fe(1)(II)Fe(2)(III). The temperature dependence of the isomer shifts was corrected for second-order Doppler shift, obtained from the study of diferrous 1. The resultant true shifts were analyzed in a two-state hopping model. The diferric complex 3 is antiferromagnetically coupled with J = 90 +/- 15 cm(-)(1), estimated from a variable-temperature Mössbauer analysis.
Stubna
Audria
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Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Jo
Du-Hwan
DH
Costas
Miquel
M
Brenessel
William W
WW
Andres
Hanspeter
H
Bominaar
Emile L
EL
Münck
Eckard
E
Que
Lawrence
L
D001665:Binding Sites; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D044943:Fatty Acid Desaturases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D005290:Ferric Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D005296:Ferrous Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D006878:Hydroxides / Q000737:chemistry*; D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry; D007700:Kinetics; D008024:Ligands; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D010105:Oxygenases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D012264:Ribonucleotide Reductases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D015204:Spectroscopy, Mossbauer; D013816:Thermodynamics
D005290:Ferric Compounds; D005296:Ferrous Compounds; D006878:Hydroxides; D008024:Ligands; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; C031356:hydroxide ion; D007501:Iron; D010105:Oxygenases; C021555:methane monooxygenase; D044943:Fatty Acid Desaturases; D012264:Ribonucleotide Reductases; D010100:Oxygen