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High-valent corrole metal complexes.

Z Gross
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Abstract

This commentary concentrates on corrole complexes with the three metal ions that are most relevant to oxidation catalysis: chromium, manganese, and iron. Particular emphasis is devoted to the only recently introduced meso-triarylcorroles and a comparison with the traditionally investigated beta-pyrrole-substituted corroles. Based on a combination of spectroscopic methods, electrochemistry, and X-ray crystallography, it is concluded that in most high-valent metallocorroles the corrole is not oxidized. Both experimental (for (oxo)chromium(V) corrole) and computational (for (oxo)manganese(V) corrole) evidence indicate that the stabilization of high-valent metal ions by corroles originates from a combination of short metal-nitrogen bonds and large metal out-of-plane displacements in the corrole, which lead to quite unexpected interactions of the oxo-metal pi* orbitals with the in-plane orbitals of the corrole.

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Z Gross. 2001. High-valent corrole metal complexes.. https://doi.org/10.1007/s007750100273

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