A series of nitrosyl tris(5,10,15-aryl)corrolate complexes of iron(III) Fe(Ar
3C)(NO) with different substituents on thearyl groups ha
ve been prepared, and certain spectroscopic and reaction properties were compared. The cyclic
voltammetric analysis of the
various Fe(Ar
3C)(NO) complexes demonstrated that both the one-electron oxidationand one-electron reduction potentials respond in systematic and nearly identical trends relati
ve to the electron-donor properties of the substituents. A similar pattern was seen in the nitrosyl stretching frequency,
NO, whichmodestly decreased with the stronger donor substituents. Flash photolysis of Fe(Ar
3C)(NO) solutions in tolueneleads to NO dissociation followed by rapid [NO]-dependent decay of the transients formed (presumably Fe(Ar
3C))to regenerate the original spectra. As was seen in an earlier flash photolysis study of Fe(TNPC)(NO) (TNPC
3- =5,10,15-tris(4-nitro-phenyl)corrolate; Joseph, C.; Ford, P. C.
J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2005,
127, 6737-6743), the second-order rate constants,
kNO, are all much faster ((1-9) × 10
8 M
-1 s
-1 at 298 K) than those for analogous iron(III)complexes of porphyrins. Howe
ver, on a more microscopic le
vel there is no ob
vious pattern in these rates withrespect to the donor properties of the aryl ring substituents. The high reacti
vity of the ferric triarylcorrolates with NOdata is interpreted in terms of the strongly electron-donating character of the Ar
3C
3- ligand and the quartet electronicconfiguration of the Fe(Ar
3C) intermediate.