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Rigidification of a macrocyclic tris-catecholate scaffold leads to electronic localisation of its mixed valent redox product
Greatorex, Sam,Vincent, Kevin B.,Baldansuren, Amgalanbaatar,McInnes, Eric J. L.,Patmore, Nathan J.,Sproules, Stephen,Halcrow, Malcolm A.
, p. 2281 - 2284 (2019)
The catecholate groups in [{Pt(L)}3(μ3-tctq)] (H6tctq = 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexahydroxy-4b,8b,12b,12d-tetramethyltribenzotriquinacene; L = a diphosphine chelate) undergo sequential oxidation to their semiquinonate forms by voltammetry, with ΔE1/2 = 160-170 mV. The monoradical [{Pt(dppb)}3(μ3-tctq)]+ is valence-localised, with no evidence for intervalence charge transfer in its near-IR spectrum. This contrasts with previously reported [{Pt(dppb)}3(μ3-ctc)]+ (H6ctc = cyclotricatechylene), based on the same macrocyclic tris-dioxolene scaffold, which exhibits partly delocalised (class II) mixed valency.