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Synthesis and Photophysical and Electrochemical Study of Tyrosine Covalently Linked to High-Valent Copper(III) and Manganese(IV) Complexes

✍ Scribed by Ming Xia; Jianhui Liu; Yan Gao; Björn Åkermark; Licheng Sun


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
German
Weight
129 KB
Volume
90
Category
Article
ISSN
0018-019X

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Abstract

As bio‐inspired chemical model of the oxygen‐evolving complex (OEC) in photosystem II, a new tyrosine‐modified corrole ligand 3 and its high‐valent copper and manganese complexes 3a and 3b were synthesized and characterized. The copper complexes 1a and 2a of corrole 1 and 2 were also prepared for comparison. The emission property indicates that the emission of ligands 2 and 3 is located at 670 nm, but no emission is observed for their metal complexes due to its suppression by the metal center. The electrochemical study shows that 3a might dimerize at the first two reversible oxidations, a behavior which was not observed in the case of 1a and 2a. The corrolato manganese(IV) complex 3b shows one reversible reduction and one quasireversible oxidation at −0.17 and 0.77 V vs. Ag/Ag^+^, respectively.