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Jee Eon Kim1, Patrick J Carroll, Eric J Schelter
1P. Roy and Diana T. Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. schelter@sas.upenn.edu.
Abstract:
We report the synthesis of 1,3-bis[(2′-tertbutyl)hydroxyaminophenyl]benzene (H2arene-diNOx) and its metal complexes, Ce(arene-diNOx)2 (1) and [(py)2K(18-crown-6)][La(arene-diNOx)2] (2). Electrochemical studies demonstrated that the H2arene-diNOx, bidentate nitroxide ligands significantly stabilized the Ce(IV/III) redox couple to −1.74 V versus Fc/Fc(+). Moreover, a reversible oxidation wave was observed for 1 at −0.37 V, leading to a novel, stable redox-active nitroxide ligand. DFT calculations confirmed that the observed oxidation is assignable to one of the nitroxide groups.
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