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Protonation of the dinitrogen-reduction catalyst [HIPTN3N]Mo(III) investigated by ENDOR spectroscopy.


ABSTRACT: Dinitrogen is reduced to ammonia by the molybdenum complex of L = [HIPTN3N](3-) [Mo; HIPT = 3,5-(2,4,6-iPr3C6H2)2C6H3]. The mechanism by which this occurs involves the stepwise addition of proton/electron pairs, but how the first pair converts MoN2 to MoN ? NH remains uncertain. The first proton of reduction might bind either at N? of N2 or at one of the three amido nitrogen (N(am)) ligands. Treatment of MoCO with [2,4,6-Me3C5H3N]BAr'4 [Ar' = 2,3-(CF3)2C6H3] in the absence of reductant generates HMoCO(+), whose electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum has greatly reduced g anisotropy relative to MoCO. (2)H Mims pulsed electron nuclear double-resonance spectroscopy of (2)HMoCO(+) shows a signal that simulations show to have a hyperfine tensor with an isotropic coupling, aiso((2)H) = -0.22 MHz, and a roughly dipolar anisotropic interaction, T((2)H) = [-0.48, -0.93, 1.42] MHz. The simulations show that the deuteron is bound to N(am), near the Mo equatorial plane, not along the normal, and at a distance of 2.6 Å from Mo, which is nearly identical with the (Nam)(2)H(+)-Mo distance predicted by density functional theory computations.

SUBMITTER: Kinney RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3139016 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Protonation of the dinitrogen-reduction catalyst [HIPTN3N]Mo(III) investigated by ENDOR spectroscopy.

Kinney R Adam RA   McNaughton Rebecca L RL   Chin Jia Min JM   Schrock Richard R RR   Hoffman Brian M BM  

Inorganic chemistry 20101214 2


Dinitrogen is reduced to ammonia by the molybdenum complex of L = [HIPTN3N](3-) [Mo; HIPT = 3,5-(2,4,6-iPr3C6H2)2C6H3]. The mechanism by which this occurs involves the stepwise addition of proton/electron pairs, but how the first pair converts MoN2 to MoN ═ NH remains uncertain. The first proton of reduction might bind either at Nβ of N2 or at one of the three amido nitrogen (N(am)) ligands. Treatment of MoCO with [2,4,6-Me3C5H3N]BAr'4 [Ar' = 2,3-(CF3)2C6H3] in the absence of reductant generates  ...[more]

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