Issue 19, 2005

Ion pairing in tetraphenylporphyrin oxidation: a semiquantitative study

Abstract

In 1,2-difluorobenzene (DFB), electrolyte conductivity measurements and cyclic voltammetric titration on the traditional benchmark tetraphenylporphyrin, H2tpp, permit the first estimate of ion pair association constants for singly- and doubly-oxidized free-base porphyrins. From ion titration cyclic voltammetry and digital simulation, measured association constants for H2tpp+X were 65, 120, 210, 520 and 730 M−1, for X = PF6, ClO4, NTf2, BF4 and OTf, respectively, relative to the association constant for the H2tpp+TFPB complex. By similar methods it was found that the association constants for the corresponding dication, H2tpp2+, were at least 3.0 × 104 M−1 (PF6), 2.5 × 106 M−1 (ClO4), 5.2 × 105 M−1 (NTf2), 1.9 × 106 M−1 (BF4) and 2.7 × 106 M−1 (OTf). We demonstrate that differences in association constants allow the formal potential of the second oxidation of H2tpp to be shifted by more than 800 mV simply by varying the solvent and electrolyte. In addition, calculated electrostatic potential energy maps for porphyrin dications suggest that exposure of the core N–H groups is responsible for the change in ordering of anion affinities that occurs upon oxidation of H2tpp+.

Graphical abstract: Ion pairing in tetraphenylporphyrin oxidation: a semiquantitative study

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 May 2005
Accepted
27 Jul 2005
First published
25 Aug 2005

Dalton Trans., 2005, 3148-3154

Ion pairing in tetraphenylporphyrin oxidation: a semiquantitative study

H. Sun, J. C. Biffinger and S. G. DiMagno, Dalton Trans., 2005, 3148 DOI: 10.1039/B506109A

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