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Dipankar Sahoo¹, Rakesh Mazumdar¹, Subhadip Pramanik¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India. sprath@iitk.ac.in.

Dalton Transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)

|June 20, 2023

Abstract:

A family of five- and six-coordinated Fe-porphyrins which enable us to scrutinize the effects of non-covalent interactions on the out-of-plane displacement of iron and its spin-states and axial ligand orientation in a single distorted macrocyclic environment has been reported. Combined analysis using single-crystal X-ray structure determination and EPR spectral investigation revealed the stabilization of the high-spin state of iron in the five-coordinate complex Fe^III(TPPBr₈)(OCHMe₂), while six-coordinate complexes [Fe^III(TPPBr₈)(MeOH)₂]ClO₄, [Fe^III(TPPBr₈)(H₂O)₂]ClO₄ and [Fe^III(TPPBr₈)(1-MeIm)₂]ClO₄ stabilize admixed-high, admixed-intermediate and low-spin states, respectively. The H-bonding interactions between the weak axial H₂O/MeOH and perchlorate anion resulted in an elongation of the Fe-O bond which eventually shortened the Fe-N(por) distances leading to the stabilization of the admixed spin state of iron which, otherwise, stabilizes the high-spin (S = 5/2) state only. In addition, the iron atom in [Fe^III(TPPBr₈)(H₂O)₂]ClO₄ is displaced by 0.02 Å towards one of the water molecules engaged in the H-bonding interactions leading to two different Fe-O (H₂O) distances of 2.098(8) and 2.122(9) Å. In contrast, iron in [Fe^III(TPPBr₈)(MeOH)₂]ClO₄ sits on the plane of the porphyrin since both the axial methanol units are engaged in similar H-bonding interactions with the ClO₄^- ion. Moreover, the X-ray structure of low-spin Fe^II(TPPBr₈)(1-MeIm)₂ revealed a dihedral angle of 63.0° between two imidazoles which deviates largely from the expected angle of 90° (perpendicular orientations) since the axial imidazole protons are engaged in strong intermolecular C-H⋯π interactions which thereby restrict the axial ligand movement. The complex also displays the shortest Fe-N(1-MeIm) bond along with smallest dihedral angles of 7.8° and 22.4° between the axial imidazole ring and the closest Fe-N_p axis due to strong π-interactions between iron and the axial imidazole ligand. Our work highlights the influence of non-covalent interactions on the out-of-plane displacement and spin state of iron and axial ligand orientations which are indeed important steps in the functioning of various hemoproteins.

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