The
synthe
si
s and characterization of the trifluoromethane
sulfonate
salt of bi
s(2,6-xylyl i
socyanide)tetraki
s(
p-tolyl)porphyrinatoiron(III), [(
p-TTP)Fe(2,6-xylylNC)
2]CF
3SO
3 (
1), i
s reported. The cry
stal
structure
show
s that the porphyrinate ring i
s strongly ruffled. The equatorial Fe-N bond di
stance
s average to 1.961(7)Å for
1, which i
s quite
short for low-
spin iron(III) porphyrinate derivative
s. Two additional complexe
s, havingTPP (
2) and
m-TTP (
3) a
s the porphyrinate
s, were al
so
synthe
sized and
studied by NMR, EPR, and Mö
ssbauer
spectro
scopy. All phy
sical propertie
s are con
si
stent with a low-
spin iron(III) porphyrinate with the le
ss-commonground-
state configuration (d
xz,d
yz)
4(d
xy)
1. The
1H NMR chemical
shift of the pyrrole proton
s at 297 K i
s+10.7 ppm for
1. The EPR
spectrum of
1 in
solution i
s axial, with
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g2 = 13.0,while in the
solid
state
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g2 = 13.4. The Mö
ssbauer
spectrum of
1 at 190 K ha
s ani
somer
shift of 0.14 mm/
s and quadrupole
splitting of 1.81 mm/
s. Magnetic Mö
ssbauer
spectra analyzed in theintermediate
spin-
spin relaxation regime by the dynamic line-
shape formali
sm of
Blume and Clau
ser confirmthi
s electron configuration and yield large negative quadrupole
splitting
s,
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EQ = -1.8 to -2.0 mm/
s for thethree complexe
s. To our knowledge, thi
s i
s the fir
st ca
se in which the Mö
ssbauer
spectra of low-
spin ferriheme
sy
stem
s have been analyzed in term
s of the effect of intermediate rate
s of
spin fluctuation
s on the appearanceof the
spectra. Analy
si
s of the temperature dependence of the quadrupole
splitting,
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EQ, for
2 yielded a differente
stimate of the energy
separation between the (d
xz,d
yz)
4(d
xy)
1 ground
state and an excited
state than did thetemperature dependence of the NMR i
sotropic
shift
s. It i
s po
stulated that the excited
state i
s actually theplanar tran
sition
state between the two ruffled conformation
s of the porphyrinate that are related by "inver
sion".To explain the temperature dependence of both NMR i
sotropic
shift
s and Mö
ssbauer quadupole
splitting
s, theplanar tran
sition
state mu
st have the (d
xy)
2(d
xz,d
yz)
3 electron configuration. The energy barrier appear
s to be
smaller in homogeneou
s solution than in the
solid
state and i
s con
siderably lower than that predicted for the(d
xz,d
yz)
3(d
xy)
2 excited electronic
state of the ruffled conformation on the ba
si
s of the EPR
g value
s.