Old Dog, New Tricks: Innocent, Five-Coordinate Cyanocobalt Corroles
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Old Dog, New Tricks: Innocent, Five-coordinate Cyanocobalt Corroles W Osterloh, Nicolas Desbois, Valentin Quesneau, Stéphane Brandès, Paul Fleurat-Lessard, Yuanyuan Fang, Virginie Blondeau-Patissier, Roberto Paolesse, Claude P Gros, Karl M Kadish To cite this version: W Osterloh, Nicolas Desbois, Valentin Quesneau, Stéphane Brandès, Paul Fleurat-Lessard, et al.. Old Dog, New Tricks: Innocent, Five-coordinate Cyanocobalt Corroles. Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2020, 59 (12), pp.8562-8579. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01037. hal-03198113 HAL Id: hal-03198113 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03198113 Submitted on 7 May 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License Old Dog, New Tricks: Innocent, Five-coordinate Cyanocobalt Corroles W. Ryan Osterloh, Nicolas Desbois, Valentin Quesneau, Stephané Brandes,̀ Paul Fleurat-Lessard, Yuanyuan Fang, Virginie Blondeau-Patissier, Roberto Paolesse,* Claude P. Gros,* and Karl M. Kadish* ABSTRACT: Three mono-CN ligated anionic cobalt A3-triarylcorroles were synthesized and investigated as to their spectroscopic and electrochemical properties in CH2Cl2, pyridine (Py), and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The newly synthesized corroles provide the first examples of air-stable cobalt corroles with an anionic axial ligand and are represented III − + as [(Ar)3CorCo (CN)] TBA , where Cor is the trivalent corrole macrocycle, Ar is p-(CN)Ph, p-(CF3)Ph, or p-(OMe)Ph, and TBA+ is the tetra-n-butylammonium (TBA) cation. Multiple redox reactions are observed for each mono-CN derivative with a key feature being a more facile first oxidation and a more difficult first reduction in all three solvents as compared to all previously examined corroles with similar meso- and β-pyrrole substituents. Formation constants (log K) for conversion of the five-coordinate mono-CN complex to its six-coordinate bis-CN form ranged from 102.8 for Ar = p-(OMe)Ph to 104.7 for Ar = p-(CN)Ph in DMSO as determined by spectroscopic methodologies. The in situ generated bis-CN complexes, represented as [(Ar)3CorCoIII(CN)2]2−(TBA+)2, and the mixed ligand complexes, represented as [(Ar)3CorCoIII(CN) (Py)]−TBA+, were also investigated as to their electrochemical and spectroscopic properties. UV−visible spectra and electrode reactions of the synthesized mono-CN derivatives are compared with the neutral mono-DMSO cobalt corrole complexes and the in situ generated bis-CN and bis-Py complexes, and the noninnocent (or innocent) nature of each cobalt corrole system is addressed. The data demonstrate the ability of the CN− axial ligand(s) to stabilize the high-valent forms of the metallocorrole, leading to systems with innocent macrocyclic ligands. Although a number of six-coordinate cobalt(III) corroles with N-donor ligands were characterized in the solid state, a dissociation of one axial ligand readily occurs in nonaqueous solvents, and this behavior contrasts with the high stability of the currently studied bis-CN adducts in CH2Cl2, pyridine, or DMSO. Linear free energy relationships were elucidated between the meso-phenyl Hammett substituent constants (Σσ) and the measured binding constants, the redox potentials, and the energy of the band positions in the mono- CN and bis-CN complexes in their neutral or singly oxidized forms, revealing highly predictable trends in the physicochemical properties of the anionic corroles. INTRODUCTION The electrochemical and spectroscopic properties of numerous significantly easier to reduce than innocent macrocyclic corroles possessing a wide variety of meso- and β-pyrrole systems having the same formal oxidation state of the central − substituents have been reported over the last three decades.1 8 metal ion, thus providing insights into the electronic Many of these reports have focused on the use of these configuration of the molecule. compounds for applications as redox and bioinspired Numerous four- and five-coordinate metallocorroles with − − catalysts9 25 or sensors,26 36 with the focal point of cobalt copper, cobalt, and iron have been shown to possess an − corrolate application involving oxygen reduction12,23 25 and oxidized corrole ligand and a reduced metal ion,1−3,26 and − carbon monoxide detection.31 36 Moreover, a particular these complexes were assigned as having a noninnocent emphasis of corrole research has been placed on unveiling macrocyclic ligand in its cation-radical (Cor•2−) form rather 4,37−40 the electronic configuration of the molecule to aid in the than the formal trivalent Cor3− anion. Many of these design of new catalysts.41 The propensity of the corrole macrocycle to behave as a noninnocent ligand under specific conditions has often hindered the ability to definitively assign an exact metal and ligand oxidation state, but published reports from our laboratory2,18,42−50 and others13,21,26,37,38,51−55 have clearly demonstrated that noninnocent corrole macrocycles are 1 Chart 1. Structures and Numbering of Investigated Cobalt Triarylcorroles with p-(CN)Ph, p-(CF3)Ph, or p-(OMe)Ph meso- Substituents complexes with noninnocent macrocycles have also been •−II (Ar)3 Cor Co (DMSO)+ CN shown to undergo multiple reductions and oxidations in III − nonaqueous media, and a conversion between the different F [](Ar)3 CorCo (CN)+ DMSO (3) oxidation states of both the central metal ion and the corrole macrocyclic ligand is easily achieved through either electro- III − − [](Ar)3 CorCo (CN)+ CN chemical or synthetic methods,37,42,56 consequently leading to III 2− a shift from a noninnocent to an innocent metallocorrole F[](Ar)3 CorCo (CN)2 (4) system. fi Both direct and indirect spectroscopic criteria, such as X-ray The nal in situ generated bis-CN adducts in eq 4 were remarkably stable, independent of the Ar group on the corrole, absorption spectroscopy (XAS), electron paramagnetic reso- and exhibited the most-facile oxidation and most difficult nance spectroscopy, and UV−visible spectroscopy, laid out by 57 reduction of any cobalt corrole system investigated. Ganguly and Ghosh have been used to classify ligand After publication of our initial report on anion interaction noninnocence. In our own reports, we established an with cobalt corroles47 we attempted to isolate bis-CN electrochemical litmus test, where the existence of extremely derivatives in the solid state for further analysis but obtained, facile reductions (∼0.00 to −0.20 V vs saturated calomel in each case, only the mono-CN complexes, three of which are electrode (SCE)) for transition-metal corroles can be used as characterized in the current study. The chemical properties of one criterion to establish the presence of a noninnocent ligand these species are described on the following pages and in the case of metallocorroles with iron, cobalt, nickel, or 2,43,45,47−49 compared to the mono-DMSO precursors, [(Ar) CorCo- copper. For example, in the case of cobalt 3 (DMSO)],47 the corresponding in situ generated bis-CN and triarylcorroles, the four-coordinate complexes are reduced at bis-Py adducts, as well as the transient mixed-ligand adducts the macrocycle (eq 1), while the six-coordinate species are containing one CN− and one pyridine axial ligand. The mono- reduced at the central metal ion (eq 2), giving, in both cases, and bis-cyanocobalt complexes are the first known examples of the same cobalt(II) reduction product. air-stable cobalt corroles with anionic axial ligands and are •− − n− + II II represented as [(Ar)3CorCo(CN)n] (TBA )n, where Cor is (Ar)3 Cor Co+[ eF (Ar)3 CorCo ] (1) the trivalent corrole macrocycle, Ar is p-(CN)Ph, p-(CF3)Ph, or p-(OMe)Ph, and n = 1 or 2, as shown in Chart 1. TBA+ is III +[−−II ]+ (Ar)3 CorCo (L)23 eF (Ar) CorCo 2L (2) the tetra-n-butylammonium (TBA) cation. fi II − Although the same nal [(Ar)3CorCo ] product is formed EXPERIMENTAL SECTION in both cases, the difference in thermodynamic half-wave potentials for the one-electron addition can be significant, Materials and Instrumentation. All chemicals and solvents were of the highest electrochemical grade available and were used without varying by as much as 1.0 V depending on the type of axial fi ≥ fi 38,48,58 further puri cation. Anhydrous dichloromethane (CH2Cl2, 99.8%), ligand and speci c Ar substituents. ≥ ff anhydrous dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO, 99.9%), and anhydrous One problem with elucidating the e ect of axial coordina- pyridine (Py, ≥99.8%) were purchased and used as received. Tetra-n- tion on the redox potentials of hexacoordinate cobalt corroles butyl-ammonium perchlorate (TBAP, ≥99.0%) and 95.0% tetra-n- is the lability of the axial ligand(s) in solution, which results in butyl-ammonium cyanide (TBACN) were purchased from Sigma a concentration-dependent complexation where one, or both, Chemical Co. and stored in a desiccator until used. ligands dissociate in dilute solutions. In search of nonlabile NMR solvents were purchased from Eurisotope and were used coordinating ligands, we recently investigated the possible without further purification. 1H NMR spectra were recorded on a binding of anionic ligands to neutral cobalt triarylcorroles and Bruker Avance III 500 spectrometer operating at 500 MHz and − available at the PACSMUB-WPCM technological platform, which found that 10 of the 11 investigated anionic ligands (PF6 , − − − − − − − − − relies on the “Institut de Chimie Moleculairé de l’Université de BF4 , HSO4 , ClO4 ,Br,I,Cl, OAc ,F, OTs ) were Bourgogne” and SATT SAYENS “TM”, a Burgundy University private unable to bind to the cobalt center of the neutral complex, with 1 − subsidiary.