Spectroscopic and Computational Investigations of a Mononuclear Manganese(IV)-Oxo Complex Reveal Electronic Structure Contributions to Reactivity

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• 作者：Domenick F. Leto ; Allyssa A. Massie ; Derek B. Rice ; Timothy A. Jackson
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 30, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：138
• 期：47
• 页码：15413-15424
• 全文大小：691K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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The mononuclear Mn(IV)-oxo complex [Mn^IV(O)(N4py)]²⁺, where N4py is the pentadentate ligand N,N-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-N-bis(2-pyridyl)methylamine, has been proposed to attack C–H bonds by an excited-state reactivity pattern [Cho, K.-B.; Shaik, S.; Nam, W. te>J. Phys. Chem. Lett.te>an class="NLM_x">ttp://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ACS="http://namespace.acs.org/2008/acs" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:space="preserve"> an>2012an class="NLM_x">ttp://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ACS="http://namespace.acs.org/2008/acs" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:space="preserve">, an>3an class="NLM_x">ttp://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ACS="http://namespace.acs.org/2008/acs" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:space="preserve">, an>2851−2856 (DOI: <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jz301241z" class="ext-link">10.1021/jz301241z)]. In this model, a ⁴E excited state is utilized to provide a lower-energy barrier for hydrogen-atom transfer. This proposal is intriguing, as it offers both a rationale for the relatively high hydrogen-atom-transfer reactivity of [Mn^IV(O)(N4py)]²⁺ and a guideline for creating more reactive complexes through ligand modification. Here we employ a combination of electronic absorption and variable-temperature magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy to experimentally evaluate this excited-state reactivity model. Using these spectroscopic methods, in conjunction with time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) and complete-active space self-consistent-field calculations (CASSCF), we define the ligand-field and charge-transfer excited states of [Mn^IV(O)(N4py)]²⁺. Through a graphical analysis of the signs of the experimental C-term MCD signals, we unambiguously assign a low-energy MCD feature of [Mn^IV(O)(N4py)]²⁺ as the ⁴E excited state predicted to be involved in hydrogen-atom-transfer reactivity. The CASSCF calculations predict enhanced Mn^III-oxyl character on the excited-state ⁴E surface, consistent with previous DFT calculations. Potential-energy surfaces, developed using the CASSCF methods, are used to determine how the energies and wave functions of the ground and excited states evolved as a function of Mn═O distance. The unique insights into ground- and excited-state electronic structure offered by these spectroscopic and computational studies are harmonized with a thermodynamic model of hydrogen-atom-transfer reactivity, which predicts a correlation between transition-state barriers and driving force.