Manganese Nitride Complexes in Oxidation States III, IV, and V: Synthesis and Electronic StructureClick to copy article linkArticle link copied!
- Henning Kropp
- Amanda E. King
- Marat M. Khusniyarov
- Frank W. Heinemann
- Kyle M. Lancaster
- Serena DeBeer
- Eckhard Bill
- Karsten Meyer
Abstract

The synthesis and characterization of a series of manganese nitrides in a tripodal chelating tris(carbene) ligand framework is described. Photolysis of [(TIMENxyl)Mn(N3)]+ (where TIMENxyl = tris[2-(3-xylylimidazol-2-ylidene)ethyl]amine) yields the isolable molecular MnIV nitride, [(TIMENxyl)Mn(N)]+. Spectroscopic and DFT studies indicate that this MnIV d3 complex has a doublet electronic ground state. The metal-centered one-electron oxidation of this MnIV species results in formation of the pentavalent MnV nitride, [(TIMENxyl)Mn(N)]2+. Unlike previously reported, tetragonal MnV nitrides with a d2, nonmagnetic S = 0 ground state, this trigonal bipyramidal complex has a triplet ground state S = 1. One-electron reduction of [(TIMENxyl)Mn(N)]+ produces the neutral, nonmagnetic trivalent [(TIMENxyl)Mn(N)] species with a d4 low-spin, S = 0, ground state.
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