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Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of a High‐Spin {FeNO} 6 Complex with an Iron(IV)−NO − Electronic Structure
Author(s) -
Speelman Amy L.,
Zhang Bo,
Krebs Carsten,
Lehnert Nicolai
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201601742
Subject(s) - ferrous , adduct , ferric , chemistry , ligand (biochemistry) , mössbauer spectroscopy , covalent bond , redox , crystallography , electronic structure , spin states , spin (aerodynamics) , inorganic chemistry , photochemistry , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , biochemistry , receptor , engineering , aerospace engineering
Although the interaction of low‐spin ferric complexes with nitric oxide has been well studied, examples of stable high‐spin ferric nitrosyls (such as those that could be expected to form at typical non‐heme iron sites in biology) are extremely rare. Using the TMG 3 tren co‐ligand, we have prepared a high‐spin ferric NO adduct ({FeNO} 6 complex) via electrochemical or chemical oxidation of the corresponding high‐spin ferrous NO {FeNO} 7 complex. The {FeNO} 6 compound is characterized by UV/Visible and IR spectroelectrochemistry, Mössbauer and NMR spectroscopy, X‐ray crystallography, and DFT calculations. The data show that its electronic structure is best described as a high‐spin iron(IV) center bound to a triplet NO − ligand with a very covalent iron−NO bond. This finding demonstrates that this high‐spin iron nitrosyl compound undergoes iron‐centered redox chemistry, leading to fundamentally different properties than corresponding low‐spin compounds, which undergo NO‐centered redox transformations.