文摘
We report the synthesis and physical characterization of a series of peripherally functionalizedporphyrazines (pzs) of the forms H2[pz(A;B3)] and trans-H2[pz(A2;B2)], where A is a dithiolene chelate ofmolybdocene or vanadocene and B is a solublizing group. The precursor pz's 8 and 9, of the form H2[pz(A;B3)], where A = (4-(butyloxycarbonyl)-S-benzyl)2 and B = di-tert-butylphenyl (8) or di-n-propyl (9), havebeen prepared, deprotected, and peripherally metalated with molybdocene and vanadocene to form 1(MoIV)and 1(VIV), prepared from 8, and 2(MoIV) from 9, respectively. Likewise, the protected trans-H2[pz(A2;B2)],where A = (S-benzyl)2 and B = 3,6-butyloxybenzene (12) or A = (S-benzyl)2 and B = (tert-butylphenyl)2(13), have been prepared and peripherally metalated with molybdocene and vanadocene to give the transdinuclear complexes, 3(MoIV,MoIV), 3(VIV,VIV) (from 12), and 4(VIV,VIV) (from 13). A crystal structure ofthe trans vanadocene pz 4(VIV,VIV) is presented; the distance between the two vanadium atoms is 14.5 Å. Themolybdocene-appended pz's are highly redox active and exhibit cyclic voltammograms that are more than justthe sum of the metallocene and the parent pz's. Chemical oxidation with FcPF6 gives the MoV species 1(MoV),2(MoV), 3(MoV,MoIV), and 3(MoV,MoV). Their EPR spectra are indicative of extensive delocalization fromthe MoV into the dithiolato-pz. The EPR spectrum of the mononuclear paramagnetic vanadocene pz, 1(VIV),shows an expected 8-line pattern for an S = 2 system with hyperfine coupling to a single 51V (I = 7/2) nucleus,but the dinuclear vanadocene pz's, 3(VIV,VIV) and 4(VIV,VIV), exhibit a striking 15-line pattern of the samebreadth from the S = 1 state formed by exchange coupling between the S = 2 vanadium centers of a dinuclearcomplex. Thus, the porphyrazine macrocycle is capable of mediating magnetic exchange interactions betweenmetal ions bound to the periphery, separated by 14.5 Å.