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Noninnocently Behaving Bridging Anions of the Widely Distributed Antioxidant Ellagic Acid in Diruthenium Complexes

, , , , and . Inorganic Chemistry, 54 (20): 10049--10057 (2015)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01868

Abstract

Dinuclear compds. L2Ru(m-E)RuL2n where L is acetylacetonate (acac-, 2,4-pentanedionate), 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy), or 2-phenylazopyridine (pap) and EH4 is ellagic acid, an antioxidative bis-catechol natural product, were studied by voltammetric and spectroelectrochem. techniques (UV-vis-NIR and ESR). The electronic structures of the isolated forms (NBu4)2(acac)2Ru(m-E)Ru(acac)2 ((NBu4)21), (bpy)2Ru(m-E)Ru(bpy)2ClO4 (2ClO4), and (pap)2Ru(m-E)Ru(pap)2 (3) were characterized by d. functional theory (DFT) in conjunction with EPR and UV-vis-NIR measurements. The crystal structure of (NBu4)21 revealed the meso form and a largely planar Ru(m-E)Ru center. Several addnl. charge states of the compds. were electrochem. accessible and were identified mostly as complexes with noninnocently behaving pap0/.bul.- or bridging ellagate (En-) anions (n = 2, 3, 4) but not as mixed-valence intermediates. The free anions En-, n = 1-4, were calcd. by time-dependent DFT to reveal NIR transitions for the radical forms with n = 1 and 3 and a triplet ground state for the bis(o-semiquinone) dianion E2-. on SciFinder(R)

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