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Switching from Metal- to Ligand-Based Oxidation in Cobalt Complexes with Redox-Active Bisguanidine Ligands.


ABSTRACT: The control of the redox reactivity, magnetic and optical properties of the different redox states of complexes with redox-active ligands permits their rational use in catalysis and materials science. The redox-chemistry of octahedrally coordinated high-spin CoII complexes (three unpaired electrons) with one redox-active bisguanidine ligand and two acetylacetonato (acac) co-ligands is completely changed by replacing the acac by hexafluoro-acetylacetonato (hfacac) co-ligands. The first one-electron oxidation is metal-centered in the case of the complexes with acac co-ligands, giving diamagnetic CoIII complexes. By contrast, in the case of the less Lewis-basic hfacac co-ligands, the first one-electron oxidation becomes ligand-centered, leading to high-spin CoII complexes with a radical monocationic guanidine ligand unit (four unpaired electrons). Ferromagnetic coupling between the spins on the metal and the organic radical in solution is evidenced by temperature-dependent paramagnetic NMR studies, allowing to estimate the isotropic exchange coupling constant in solution. Second one-electron oxidation leads to high-spin CoII complexes with dicationic guanidine ligand units (three unpaired electrons) in the presence of hfacac co-ligands, but to low-spin CoIII complexes with radical monocationic, peralkylated guanidine ligand (one unpaired electron) in the presence of acac co-ligands. The analysis of the electronic structures is complemented by quantum-chemical calculations on the spin density distributions and relative energies of the possible redox isomers.

SUBMITTER: Lohmeyer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8457109 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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