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A more reactive trigonal-bipyramidal high-spin oxoiron(IV) complex with a cis-labile site
Jason England1, Yisong Guo, Katherine M Van Heuvelen
1Department of Chemistry and Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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The trigonal-bipyramidal high-spin (S = 2) oxoiron(IV) complex [Fe(IV)(O)(TMG(2)dien)(CH(3)CN)](2+) (7) was synthesized and spectroscopically characterized. Substitution of the CH(3)CN ligand by anions, demonstrated here for X = N(3)(-) and Cl(-), yielded additional S = 2 oxoiron(IV) complexes of general formulation [Fe(IV)(O)(TMG(2)dien)(X)](+) (7-X). The reduced steric bulk of 7 relative to the published S = 2 complex [Fe(IV)(O)(TMG(3)tren)](2+) (2) was reflected by enhanced rates of intermolecular substrate oxidation.
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