One of the more active areas in bioorganometallic chemistry is the preparation and reactivity studies of active site mimics of the [NiFe]-hydrogenases. One area of particular recent progress involves reactions that interconvert Ni(μ-X)Fe centers for X = OH, H, CO, as described by Song et al. Such reactions illustrate new ways to access intermediates related to the Ni-R and Ni-SI states of the enzyme. Most models are derivatives of the type (diphosphine)Ni(SR)2Fe(CO)3-n(PR′3)n. In recent work, the methodology has been generalized to include FeII(diphosphine) derivatives of Ni(N2S2), where N2S22- is the tetradentate diamine-dithiolate (CH2N(CH3)CH2CH2S-)2. Indeed, models based on Ni(N2S2) have proven valuable, but these studies also highlight challenges in working with heterobimetallic complexes, specifically the tendency of some such Ni-Fe complexes to convert to homometalliic Ni-Ni derivatives. This kind of problem is not readily detected by X-ray crystallography. With this caution in mind, we argue that one series of complexes recently described in this journal are almost certainly misassigned.

Basu, D., Gray, D., Woods, T., Rauchfuss, T., Arrigoni, F., Zampella, G. (2021). Challenges in the Synthesis of Active Site Mimics for [NiFe]-Hydrogenases. ORGANOMETALLICS, 40(19), 3306-3312 [10.1021/acs.organomet.1c00412].

Challenges in the Synthesis of Active Site Mimics for [NiFe]-Hydrogenases

Arrigoni F.;Zampella G.
2021

Abstract

One of the more active areas in bioorganometallic chemistry is the preparation and reactivity studies of active site mimics of the [NiFe]-hydrogenases. One area of particular recent progress involves reactions that interconvert Ni(μ-X)Fe centers for X = OH, H, CO, as described by Song et al. Such reactions illustrate new ways to access intermediates related to the Ni-R and Ni-SI states of the enzyme. Most models are derivatives of the type (diphosphine)Ni(SR)2Fe(CO)3-n(PR′3)n. In recent work, the methodology has been generalized to include FeII(diphosphine) derivatives of Ni(N2S2), where N2S22- is the tetradentate diamine-dithiolate (CH2N(CH3)CH2CH2S-)2. Indeed, models based on Ni(N2S2) have proven valuable, but these studies also highlight challenges in working with heterobimetallic complexes, specifically the tendency of some such Ni-Fe complexes to convert to homometalliic Ni-Ni derivatives. This kind of problem is not readily detected by X-ray crystallography. With this caution in mind, we argue that one series of complexes recently described in this journal are almost certainly misassigned.
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hydrogen; enzyme model; Ni; Fe; iron; nickel; DFT; organometallic compound;
English
2021
40
19
3306
3312
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Basu, D., Gray, D., Woods, T., Rauchfuss, T., Arrigoni, F., Zampella, G. (2021). Challenges in the Synthesis of Active Site Mimics for [NiFe]-Hydrogenases. ORGANOMETALLICS, 40(19), 3306-3312 [10.1021/acs.organomet.1c00412].
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