Metal-Ligand Misfits: Facile Access to Rhenium-Oxo Corroles by Oxidative Metalation

Rune F Einrem; Kevin J Gagnon; Abraham B Alemayehu; Abhik Ghosh

doi:10.1002/chem.201504307

Metal-Ligand Misfits: Facile Access to Rhenium-Oxo Corroles by Oxidative Metalation

Chemistry. 2016 Jan 11;22(2):517-20. doi: 10.1002/chem.201504307. Epub 2015 Dec 7.

Authors

Rune F Einrem¹, Kevin J Gagnon², Abraham B Alemayehu³, Abhik Ghosh⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø (Norway).
² Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720-8229 (USA).
³ Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø (Norway). abraham.alemayehu@uit.no.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø (Norway). abhik.ghosh@uit.no.

PMID: 26639951
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201504307

Abstract

With the exception of a single accidental synthesis, rhenium corroles are unknown, but of great interest as catalysts and potential radiopharmaceuticals. Oxidative metalation of meso-triarylcorroles with [Re2 (CO)10 ] in refluxing decalin has provided a facile and relatively high-yielding route to rhenium(V)-oxo corroles. The complexes synthesized could all be fully characterized by single-crystal X-ray structure analyses.

Keywords: corroles; metalation; oxidation; rhenium; size mismatch.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.