Laser photolysis of nitritomanganese(III)tetraphenylporphyrin, Mn
IIITPP(ONO)(
1), in degassed toluene givesmanganese(II) tetraphenylporphyrin, Mn
IITPP(
2), plus NO
2. The quantum yield,
, forthe formation of Mn
IITPP is dependent on the excitation wavelength:
= 0.045 at 355 nmand
= 0.0064 at 532 nm. Continuousphotolysis studies reveal that the quantum yield for the netphotodecomposition of
1 is much sma
ller(10
-4).Thus, Mn
IITPP produced by laser photolysis ofMn
IIITPP(ONO) mostly returns to
1 byrecombination with NO
2according to second-order kinetics with a rate constant 2.2 ×10
9 M
-1s
-1. The kinetics for the reactionsofMn
IITPP with O
2, NO, and pyridine wereinvestigated in detail. In aerated toluene,Mn
IITPP reversibly reactswith oxygen to yield the dioxygen adduct, MnTPP(O
2)(
3). The rate constants,
kf(O
2) and
kb(O
2), for theformationand dissociation of
3 at 300 K were determined to be 1.93× 10
7 M
-1s
-1 and 9.0 × 10
4s
-1, respectively, andthe equilibrium constant,
kf(O
2)/
kb(O
2),is therefore 2.1 × 10
2 M
-1.Mn
IITPP reacts with pyridine to giveMn
IITPP(Py) with a rate constant of 9.5 × 10
8M
-1 s
-1.Mn
IITPP reacts with NO to yield nitrosylmanganeseporphyrin,Mn
IITPP(NO), with the rate constant 5.3 ×10
8 M
-1s
-1. The association reactions ofMn
IITPP with NO, pyridine,O
2, and NO
2 are discussed in comparison withthose of other metalloporphyrins.