The reaction of [PPN][Fe(CO)
3(NO)] and S
8 in a 1:1 molar ratio in THF proceeded to give the dinitrosyl ironcomplex [PPN][S
5Fe(NO)
2] (
1) and the known [PPN]
2[S
5Fe(
-S)
2FeS
5] (
2). EPR signals of
g values
gz = 2.0148,
gx = 2.0270, and
gy = 2.0485 at 77 K confirmed the existence of the unpaired electron in compound
1. Thetemperature-dependent magnetic moment of complex
1 indicates that the ground state is one unpaired electronwith (
St,
SL) = (
1/
2, 1) at very low temperature (S
t is the total spin quantum number of the system; S
L is the sumof the spin quantum numbers of two NO
ligands). The O K-edge absorptions of complex
1 and [(NO)Fe(S
2CNEt
2)
2]at 532.1 and 532.5 eV are assigned to the transition of 1s
*(NO) and 1s
*(NO
+), respectively. For theelectronic structure of the {Fe(NO)
2} core, DFT calculations, magnetic susceptibi
lity measurement, EPR, and FeK-/L-edge XAS spectroscopy of complex
1 lead to a description of {Fe
1+(
NO)
2}
9. [2Fe-2S] cluster
2 treated withnitric oxide in THF shows that cluster
2 is transformed into the dinitrosyl iron complex
1 identified by IR, UV-vis,and X-ray diffraction analysis. The reaction may be reversed by the photolysis of the THF solution of
1 in thepresence of the NO-accepting reagent [(C
4H
8O)Fe(S,S-C
6H
4)
2]
- to reform
2. This result demonstrates a successfulbiomimetic reaction cycle of the degradation and reassembly of [2Fe-2S] cluster [S
5Fe(
-S)
2FeS
5]
2- relevant tothe repair of nitric oxide-modified [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin by cysteine desulfurase and
L-cysteine in vitro.