Issue 40, 2015

Theoretical modeling of valence tautomeric dinuclear cobalt complexes. Adducts of CoII diketonates with cyclic redox-active tetraone ligands

Abstract

The approach to the employment of the mechanism of valence tautomerism (VT) for the design of molecular 2-qubit quantum gates has been extended to adducts 5–8 of CoII bis-(malonates), bis-(acetylacetonates), bis-(hexafluoroacetylacetonates) and bis-(trifluoroacetylacetonates) with tetradentate tetraone (cyclic di-o-quinones) redox-active piperazine-2,3,5,6-tetraone L5 (X = NH), 3,3,6,6-tetramethylcyclohexane-1,2,4,5-tetraone L5 (X = C(CH3)2), cyclopenta[fg]acenaphthylene-1,2,5,6-tetraone L6, cyclopenta[fg]acenaphthylene-3,4,7,8-tetraone L7 and pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone L8 and computationally studied using the B3LYP*/6-311++G(d,p) method. The calculations reveal ferromagnetic ordering of unpaired electrons in the low-spin electromeric forms of complexes 8 (R1, R2 = H, CH3, CF3) on the basis of L8, which provides for the paramagnetic character of all three interconverting electromers of 8 and makes it possible to realize the two-step mechanism of thermally driven migration of paramagnetic centers between the pyrene-tetraone fragment and metal ions. Through the structural variation of the ancillary diketonate ligands the energy gaps between the electromeric forms of adducts 8 and energy barriers for their interconversion were adjusted to the range of values typical of thermal VT rearrangements. The best energy parameters for the occurrence of thermal two-step VT rearrangements involving all three paramagnetic electromeric forms can be achieved for complex 8 (R1 = CH3, R2 = CF3), which was shown to meet the principal conditions for compounds with a potential role of spin qubit carriers: thermal stability with respect to dissociation into the components, thermally accessible energy barriers for the interconversion of the electromers and weak coupling between their paramagnetic centers.

Graphical abstract: Theoretical modeling of valence tautomeric dinuclear cobalt complexes. Adducts of CoII diketonates with cyclic redox-active tetraone ligands

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Jul 2015
Accepted
07 Sep 2015
First published
09 Sep 2015

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 17819-17828

Theoretical modeling of valence tautomeric dinuclear cobalt complexes. Adducts of CoII diketonates with cyclic redox-active tetraone ligands

V. I. Minkin, A. G. Starikov and A. A. Starikova, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 17819 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT02609A

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