Solvothermal One-Pot Synthesis of a New Family of Chiral [Fe<sub>4</sub>O<sub>4</sub>]-Cubane Clusters with Redox Active Cores

Autor(en)
Marco Seifried, Frieda M. Kapsamer, Michael Reissner, Jan M. Welch, Gerald Giester, Danny Müller, Peter Weinberger
Abstrakt

The two achiral ligands tris(1-methyl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)methanol ((mim)3COH) and bis(1-methyl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)(3-methylpyridin-2-yl)methanol ((mim)2(mpy)COH) form on reaction with Fe(BF4)2∙6H2O, the octahedral low-spin complexes [Fe((mim)3COH)2](BF4)2∙MeCN (1) and [Fe((mim)2(mpy)COH)2](BF4)2∙0.5MeCN (2). Both octahedral complexes immediately rearrange to the chiral [Fe4O4]-cubane clusters [Fe4(mim)3CO)4](BF4)4 (3) and [Fe4(mim)3CO)4](BF4)4∙CHCl3 (4), whereas the highly symmetrical 3 crystallizes as racemate, 4 resolves based on the asymmetry introduced by the 2-methylpyridine moiety and crystallizes as an enantiomerically pure sample. Both clusters feature redox active [Fe4O4]-cubane cores with up to four individual accessible states, which directs towards a potential application as electron-shuttle.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie
Externe Organisation(en)
Technische Universität Wien
Journal
Magnetochemistry
Band
8
Anzahl der Seiten
14
ISSN
2312-7481
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry8090095
Publikationsdatum
08-2022
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
104005 Elektrochemie, 104021 Strukturchemie, 105113 Kristallographie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Chemistry (miscellaneous), Materials Chemistry
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