title: Structural and magnetic effects of meso-substitution in alkyl-substituted metalloporphyrinate pi-cation radicals: characterization of [Fe(TalkylP*)(Cl)]SbCl6 (alkyl = ethyl and n-propyl).
abstract: We report the preparation and characterization of two meso-alkyl substituted porphyrin pi-cation radical derivatives, [Fe(TalkylP(*))(Cl)]SbCl(6) (alkyl = ethyl or propyl). Both complexes have been characterized by UV/vis/near-IR, IR, and Mossbauer spectroscopy, temperature-dependent solid-state magnetic susceptibility measurements, and X-ray structure determinations. All data for both oxidized species are consistent with the formulation of the complexes as ring-oxidized iron(III) porphyrin species. The molecular structures of the two five-coordinate species have the typical square-pyramidal coordination group of high-spin iron(III) derivatives. The crystal structures also reveal that the species form cofacial pi-pi dimers with lateral shifts of 1.44 A and 3.22 A, respectively, for the propyl and ethyl radical derivatives. Both radicals exhibit porphyrin cores with alternating bond distance patterns in the inner 16-membered ring. In addition, [Fe(TEtP(*))(Cl)]SbCl(6) and [Fe(TPrP(*))(Cl)]SbCl(6) have been characterized by temperature-dependent (6-300 K) magnetic susceptibility studies, the best fitting of the temperature-dependent moments reveal strong coupling between iron spins and porphyrin radical, and a smaller magnitude of antiferromagnetic coupling between ring radicals, which are opposite to those found in the five-coordinate iron(III) OEP radicals. The differences in structure and properties of the cation radical meso-alkyl and beta-alkyl derivatives possibly reflect differences in properties of a(1u)- and a(2u)-forming radicals.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Teresa J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Neal
authors.forename: Graeme R A
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Wyllie
authors.forename: Charles E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: W Robert
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Scheidt
mesh_terms: D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008280:Magnetics; D008665:Metalloporphyrins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D008665:Metalloporphyrins; D011166:Porphyrins; C028565:porphyrin pi cation radical
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