Sahoo Dipankar, Rath Sankar Prasad
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Dec 7;51(94):16790-3. doi: 10.1039/c5cc07111a.
For the first time, three iron(III) porphyrinato complexes have been synthesized selectively by varying the iodine concentration in the reaction mixture which eventually forms both five and six coordinate complexes with iodide and/or tri-iodide as axial ligands. Combined analysis using single crystal X-ray structure determination, and Mössbauer, (1)H NMR and EPR studies as well as VT magnetic studies has revealed the admixed-intermediate (iodo complex), pure intermediate (tri-iodide complex) and high-spin (1e-oxidized complex) states of iron.
