The Modular Nature of All-Ferrous Edge-Bridged Double Cubanes
- 14 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Inorganic Chemistry
- Vol. 49 (4), 1647-1650
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ic902050k
Abstract
Two all-ferrous, edge-bridged 8Fe−8S clusters, one capped with carbenes (2) and the other with phosphenes (3), have been characterized by 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy. The clusters have diamagnetic ground states that yield spectra consisting of one quadrupole doublet with a large splitting (25% of absorption) and one (3) or two (2) doublets with much smaller splittings (75% of absorption). These patterns closely resemble those observed for all-ferrous 4Fe−4S clusters. Structurally, the 4Fe−4S fragments of 2 and 3 are remarkably similar to all-ferrous 4Fe−4S clusters, sharing with them the characteristic 3:1 pattern of the iron sites, a differentiation that has been shown previously to reflect spontaneous distortions of the cluster core. These spectroscopic and geometric similarities suggest that the diamagnetic ground state of the 8Fe−8S cluster results from antiferromagnetic exchange coupling of two identical 4Fe−4S modules, each carrying spin S4Fe = 4. The iron atoms with the largest quadrupole splittings are located at the opposite ends of the body diagonal containing the bridging sulfides.Keywords
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