New avenues for ligand-mediated processes–expanding metal reactivity by the use of redox-active catechol, o-aminophenol and o-phenylenediamine ligands

DLJ Broere, R Plessius, JI van der Vlugt - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Redox-active ligands have evolved from being considered spectroscopic curiosities–
creating ambiguity about formal oxidation states in metal complexes–to versatile and useful …

Controlling radical-type single-electron elementary steps in catalysis with redox-active ligands and substrates

NP van Leest, FJ de Zwart, M Zhou, B de Bruin - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Advances in (spectroscopic) characterization of the unusual electronic structures of open-
shell cobalt complexes bearing redox-active ligands, combined with detailed mapping of …

Catalytic Synthesis of N-Heterocycles via Direct C(sp3)–H Amination Using an Air-Stable Iron(III) Species with a Redox-Active Ligand

B Bagh, DLJ Broere, V Sinha, PF Kuijpers… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Coordination of FeCl3 to the redox-active pyridine–aminophenol ligand NNO H2 in the
presence of base and under aerobic conditions generates FeCl2 (NNO ISQ)(1), featuring …

Understanding the origin of one-or two-step valence tautomeric transitions in bis (dioxolene)-bridged dinuclear cobalt complexes

GK Gransbury, BN Livesay, JT Janetzki… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Valence tautomerism (VT) involves a reversible stimulated intramolecular electron transfer
between a redox-active ligand and redox-active metal. Bis (dioxolene)-bridged dinuclear …

Complexes of “late” transition metals of the 3d row based on functionalized o-iminobenzoquinone type ligands: Interrelation of molecular and electronic structure …

KI Pashanova, AI Poddel'sky, AV Piskunov - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present review covers the coordination compounds of the “late” transition metals of the
3d row (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu) based on sterically hindered functionalized o …

Valence tautomerism and delocalization in transition metal complexes of o-amidophenolates and other redox-active ligands. Some recent results

A Rajput, AK Sharma, SK Barman, A Saha… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2020 - Elsevier
The archetypal temperature-driven valence tautomeric process 'Co III (Cat)(SQ)'⇌'Co II (SQ)
2'(spin state of cobalt changes from S= 0 to S= 3/2), where Cat 2− and SQ·− are catecholato …

Putting the squeeze on valence tautomerism in cobalt-dioxolene complexes

A Summers, FZM Zahir, GF Turner, MA Hay… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Molecules that can reversibly switch between electronic states under an external stimulus
are of interest to numerous applications. Complexes of open shell metal ions with redox …

Ligand Modifications Produce Two‐Step Magnetic Switching in a Cobalt (dioxolene) Complex

K Kc, T Woods, L Olshansky - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mononuclear monodioxolene valence tautomeric (VT) cobalt complexes typically exist in
their low spin (ls) CoIII (cat2−) and high spin (hs) CoII (sq⋅−) forms (cat2−= catecholato, and …

Helicene quinones: redox-triggered chiroptical switching and chiral recognition of the semiquinone radical anion lithium salt by electron nuclear double resonance …

D Schweinfurth, M Zalibera, M Kathan… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We present the synthesis and characterization of enantiomerically pure [6] helicene o-
quinones (P)-(+)-1 and (M)-(−)-1 and their application to chiroptical switching and chiral …

How innocent are potentially redox non-innocent ligands? Electronic structure and metal oxidation states in iron-PNN complexes as a representative case study

B Butschke, KL Fillman, T Bendikov… - Inorganic …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Herein we present a series of new α-iminopyridine-based iron-PNN pincer complexes
[FeBr2LPNN](1),[Fe (CO) 2LPNN](2),[Fe (CO) 2LPNN](BF4)(3),[Fe (F)(CO) 2LPNN](BF4)(4) …