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. 2020 Dec 21;59(24):18010-18017.
doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02400. Epub 2020 Dec 10.

Catalytic Four-Electron Reduction of Dioxygen by Ferrocene Derivatives with a Nonheme Iron(III) TAML Complex

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Catalytic Four-Electron Reduction of Dioxygen by Ferrocene Derivatives with a Nonheme Iron(III) TAML Complex

Xiaoyan Lu et al. Inorg Chem. .

Abstract

A mononuclear nonheme iron(III) complex with a tetraamido macrocyclic ligand (TAML), [(TAML)FeIII]- (1), is a selective precatalyst for four-electron reduction of dioxygen by ferrocene derivatives in the presence of acetic acid (CH3COOH) in acetone. This is the first work to show that a nonheme iron(III) complex catalyzes the four-electron reduction of O2 by one-electron reductants. An iron(V)-oxo complex, [(TAML)FeV(O)]- (2), was produced by oxygenation of 1 with O2 via the formation of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), acting as an autocatalyst that shortened the induction time for the generation of 2. Decamethylferrocene (Me10Fc) and octamethylferrocene (Me8Fc) reduced 2 to 1 by two electrons in the presence of CH3COOH to produce decamethylferrocenium cation (Me10Fc+) and octamethylferrocenium cation (Me8Fc+), respectively. Then, 1 was oxygenated by O2 to regenerate 2 via the formation of TATP. In the cases of ferrocene (Fc), bromoferrocene (BrFc) and 1,1'-dibromoferrocene (Br2Fc), initial electron transfer from ferrocene derivatives to 2 occurred; however, neither a second proton-coupled electron transfer from ferrocene derivatives to 2 nor a catalytic four-electron reduction of O2 occurred.

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