Title
Energetics and structural consequences of axial ligand coordination in nonplanar nickel porphyrins
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2-2005
Abstract
The effects of ruffling on the axial ligation properties of a series of nickel(II) tetra(alkyl)porphyrins have been investigated with UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, resonance Raman spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, classical molecular mechanics calculations, and normal-coordinate structural decomposition analysis. For the modestly nonplanar porphyrins, porphyrin ruffling is found to cause a decrease in binding affinity for pyrrolidine and piperidine, mainly caused by a decrease in the binding constant for addition of the first axial ligand; ligand binding is completely inhibited for the more nonplanar porphyrins. The lowered affinity, resulting from the large energies required to expand the core and flatten the porphyrin to accommodate the large high-spin nickel(II) ion, has implications for nickel porphyrin-based molecular devices and the function of heme proteins and methyl-coenzyme M reductase.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Journal of the American Chemical Society
First Page
1179
Last Page
1192
Recommended Citation
Song, Y., Haddad, R., Jia, S., Hok, S., Olmstead, M., Nurco, D., Schore, N., Zhang, J., Ma, J., Smith, K., Gazeau, S., Pécaut, J., Marchon, J., Medforth, C., & Shelnutt, J. (2005). Energetics and structural consequences of axial ligand coordination in nonplanar nickel porphyrins. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127 (4), 1179-1192. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja045309n