title: Photochemical generation of a highly reactive iron-oxo intermediate. A true iron(V)-oxo species?
abstract: Laser flash photolysis of 5,10,15-tris(pentafluorophenyl)corrole-iron(IV) chlorate or nitrate, prepared from the corresponding chloride, gave a highly reactive iron-oxo transient identified as an iron(V)-oxo species on the basis of its UV-visible spectrum and high reactivity as well as by analogy to photochemical ligand cleavage reactions of related manganese species. The transient was shown to be an oxo transfer agent in a preparative reaction with cis-cyclooctene. Representative rate constants for oxidation reactions by the new transient at ambient temperature were k = 5900 M-1 s-1 for cyclooctene and k = 570 M-1 s-1 for ethylbenzene. The new transient is more than 6 orders of magnitude more reactive with typical organic reductants than expected for an iron(IV)-oxo corrole radical cation and 100 times more reactive than an analogous positively charged iron(IV)-oxo porphyrin radical cation. Slow electron transfer isomerization of ligand iron(V)-oxo species to iron(IV)-oxo ligand radical cations might be important in reactions of porphyrin-iron catalysts in the laboratory and in nature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA.
authors.forename: Dilusha N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Harischandra
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Newcomb
mesh_terms: D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000528:radiation effects*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry*; D010777:Photochemistry
chemical_list: D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D007501:Iron; D010100:Oxygen