Electron-transfer series are descri
bed for three ferric complexes of the pentadentate ligand 4,8,11-trimethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane-1-acetate (Me
3cyclam-acetate) with axial chloride, fluoride, andazide ligands. These complexes can all
be reduced coulometrically to their Fe(II) analogs and oxidizedreversi
bly to the corresponding Fe(IV) species. The Fe(II), Fe(III), and Fe(IV) species have
been studiedspectroscopically and their UV-vis, M&
ouml;ss
bauer, EPR, and IR spectra are presented. The fluoro species[(Me
3cyclam-acetate)FeF]
n+ (
n = 0, 1, 2) have
been studied computationally using density functional theory(DFT), and the electronic structure of the Fe(IV) dication [(Me
3cyclam-acetate)FeF]
2+ is compared withthat of the isoelectronic Fe(IV) oxo cation [(Me
3cyclam-acetate)FeO]
+; the different properties of the twospecies are mainly due to the significantly covalent Fe=O
bonds in the latter.