Multireference Ground and Excited State Electronic Structures of Free- versus Iron Porphyrin-Carbenes
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0309294" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0309294</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00249" target="_blank" >10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00249</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Multireference Ground and Excited State Electronic Structures of Free- versus Iron Porphyrin-Carbenes
Original language description
Iron porphyrin carbenes (IPCs) are important reaction intermediates in engineered carbene transferase enzymes and homogeneous catalysis. However, discrepancies between theory and experiment complicate the understanding of IPC electronic structure. In the literature, this has been framed as whether the ground state is an open- vs closed-shell singlet (OSS vs CSS). Here we investigate the structurally dependent ground and excited spin-state energetics of a free carbene and its IPC analogs with variable trans axial ligands. In particular, for IPCs, multireference ab initio wave function methods are more consistent with experiment and predict a mixed singlet ground state that is dominated by the CSS (Fe(II) ← {:C(X)Y}0) configuration (i.e., electrophilic carbene) but that also has a small, non-negligible contribution from an Fe(III)–{C(X)Y}−• configuration (hole in d(xz), i.e., radical carbene). In the multireference approach, the “OSS-like” excited states are metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) in nature and are energetically well above the CSS-dominated ground state. The first, lowest energy of these “OSS-like” excited states is predicted to be heavily weighted toward the Fe(III)–{C(X)Y}−• (hole in d(yz)) configuration. As expected from exchange considerations, this state falls energetically above a triplet of the same configuration. Furthermore, potential energy surfaces (PESs) along the IPC Fe–C(carbene) bond elongation exhibit increasingly strong mixings between CSS/OSS characters, with the Fe(III)–{C(X)Y}−• configuration (hole in d(xz)) growing in weight in the ground state during bond elongation. The relative degree of electrophilic/radical carbene character along this structurally relevant PES can potentially play a role in reactivity and selectivity patterns in catalysis. Future studies on IPC reaction coordinates should evaluate contributions from ground and excited state multireference character.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10403 - Physical chemistry
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Inorganic Chemistry
ISSN
0020-1669
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
59
Issue of the periodical within the volume
13
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
8707-8715
UT code for WoS article
000548456300011
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85087532519