Trans Doubly N-Confused Porphyrins: Cu(III) Complexation and Formation of Rodlike Hydrogen-Bonding Networks

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Trans Doubly N-Confused Porphyrins: Cu(III) Complexation and Formation of
Rodlike Hydrogen-Bonding Networks
Hiromitsu Maeda,†,‡ Atsuhiro Osuka,‡ and Hiroyuki Furuta*,†
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu UniVersity,
Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan, and Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto UniVersity,
Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Received September 15, 2003; E-mail: hfuruta@cstf.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Since the serendipitous discovery of N-confused porphyrin
(NCP),1 a number of unusual properties that are different from
normal porphyrins have been disclosed in a variety of confused
porphyrinoids.2 Among such confused analogues, doubly N-
confused porphyrin (N2CP) is of particular interest because there
exist two inner core carbon and two nitrogen atoms that can be
used for metal coordination and two outer peripheral nitrogen atoms
for the interaction to the external ions or molecules. Previously,
we reported the synthesis of cis-type N2CP, in which two neighbor-
ing pyrroles are confused, and showed the formation of complexes
with rare Cu(III) and Ag(III) metals3a,b and 1-D hydrogen-bonding
zigzag chains in the solid state.3c Theoretically, N2CP consists of
five regioisomers with different stabilities and aromaticities.4 Thus,
it has been an open question whether such properties are limited
only to a cis-isomer or even applicable to another possible trans-
isomer whose two confused pyrroles are located at the countered
sides (Chart 1).4 In this communication, synthesis, characterization,
and metal coordination of the first trans-N2CP are reported.
The explicit structure of 4b was determined by X-ray diffraction
analysis (Figure 1a).8 In the crystal, the two confused pyrrole rings,
unsubstituted and a methoxy attached, bent to the same side at 21.2
and 21.9° to the macrocyclic mean plane consisting of a core of
24 atoms, respectively. The remaining normal pyrroles cant 6.8
and 9.3° to the opposite side. The macrocycle exhibits a saddle
conformation, wherein a solvent toluene molecule is captured by
the two trans-N2CP with a distance of 3.16 Å. In the case of toluene-
free crystals of 4a, a π-stacked columnar structure is observed,9
which is different from the zigzag chain of cis-isomer 6.3c
Chart 1. Basic Framework of NCP and trans-, cis-N2CP
Figure 1. X-ray single-crystal structures of (a) 4b and (b) Cu(III) complex
5a. The thermal ellipsoids were scaled to the 50% probability level. In both
cases, solvent molecules are omitted for clarity.
In the 1H NMR spectrum of 4a in CDCl3, the peripheral protons
resonate at 8.85-8.44 ppm, and the two inner NH and two inner
CH protons are observed at -2.73, -3.21 and -4.34, -4.36 ppm,
respectively, indicating the 18π aromatic character of trans-N2CP.
This is a marked contrast to the cis-isomer 6, which possesses only
three protons in the core (6.40, 3.52, and 3.22 ppm for inner NH
and two inner CH, respectively), displaying the weak aromatic
character.3a Supporting this, the absorption spectrum of trans-N2-
CP (4a) in CH2Cl2 exhibits a sharp normal, porphyrin-like Soret
band at 449.0 nm, which is quite different from the broad one at
424.0 nm of cis-N2CP (6) (Figure 2a).
The synthesis of trans-N2CP was performed by using [2 + 2]
self-cyclization of carbinol derivative of pentafluorobenzoyl-substi-
tuted N-confused dipyrromethane 2. Surprisingly, the isolated main
product after 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquionone (DDQ)
oxidation was not an expected trans-N2CP, but its isomer of N-fused
type (N-confused,N-fused porphyrin, NcFP, 3) (Scheme 1a).5-7 This
is contrasted to the straightforward synthesis of cis-N2CP (6) from
N-confused dipyrromethane (1) and pentafluorobenzaldehyde.3a
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The structure of 3 was determined from the H NMR spectrum
in CDCl3, where the peripheral and inner CH protons are seen at
8.62-7.67 and 1.48 ppm, respectively, reflecting the aromatic nature
of 3. The lower field shift of the inner NH at 8.37 ppm is due to
the intramolecular hydrogen bonding. The absorption spectrum of
3 in CH2Cl2 exhibits a sharp Soret-like band at 486.0 nm, and the
edge of Q-bands in the long wavelength region reaches around 1000
nm. As demonstrated in N-fused porphyrin (NFP),5 the treatment
of NcFP (3) with KOH/EtOH or KOH/MeOH afforded ring-opened
product, alkoxy-substituted trans-N2CP (4a,b), in 53 and 31%
yields, respectively (Scheme 1a).
Figure 2. UV/vis absorption spectra of (a) trans-N2CP (4a, solid line) and
cis-N2CP (6, dotted line)3b and (b) Cu(III) complexes of trans-N2CP (5a,
solid line) and cis-N2CP (7, dotted line)3b in CH2Cl2.
The preferential formation of an aromatic tautomer observed in
4 is well consistent with the results of DFT calculations,4 where
† Kyushu University.
‡ Kyoto University.
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Scheme 1. Syntheses and Cu(III) Complexation of (a) trans-N2CP (4a,b) and (b) cis-N2CP (6)3a
the most stable form of trans-N2CP favors the fully conjugated
aromatic inner 4H-type, while the cis-N2CP 6 prefers the weak
aromatic inner 3H-type tautomer.10
supramolecular architecture. In addition, the combination of acid
and base moieties at the periphery of multiply N-confused isomers
would make these “imidazole porphyrinoids” attractive for the use
as catalysts15 and anion/cation sensors.14,16
The metal coordination of 4a,b was examined by using Cu(OAc)2
as performed in the cis-isomer 6 (Scheme 1a,b). After stirring the
reaction mixture in CH2Cl2 for 5 h at room temperature, red-colored
copper complexes (5a,b) were formed in 59 and 46% yield,
Acknowledgment. We thank Dr. Kenji Yoza at Bruker AXS
and Professor Yoshio Hisaeda and Mr. Isao Aritome at Kyushu
University for the help of X-ray measurements. H.M. thanks JSPS
for a Research Fellowship for Young Scientists.
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respectively. The H NMR of 5a shows distinct signals at 8.50-
7.52 ppm assignable to peripheral CH, while the outer NH appears
at 10.22 ppm. The absence of the inner CH and NH signals suggests
that the obtained copper complex contains the diamagnetic center
metal cation, Cu(III) in the core. The UV/vis absorption spectrum
of 5a in CH2Cl2 exhibits strong transition at 337 nm and broad
bands from 400 to 800 nm, which is contrasted to the Cu(III)
complex of cis-isomer (7) (Figure 2b).
Supporting Information Available: Synthetic procedures and
spectral data of 2-5, DFT calculations for NcFP structures, crystal
packing of 4a, 5a, and 7 (PDF). CIF files for the X-ray structural
analyses of 4b and 5a. This material is available free of charge via the
Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.
The X-ray structure of Cu(III) complex 5a exhibits square-planar
complex (Figure 1b).11 The distances between Cu-C are 1.940(7)
and 1.944(7) Å, and Cu-N are 1.965(6) and 1.967(6) Å, respec-
tively, which are comparable to that of Cu(III) complex of cis-N2-
CP, Cu-C: 1.939(3) and 1.934(4) Å, Cu-N: 1.969(3) and
1.954(4) Å.3a The molecule is rather planar with small deviation
(0.06 Å) from a mean plane consisting of 25 core atoms compared
to the distorted free base 4b (0.30 Å). Cu(III) complex 5a forms
intermolecular hydrogen-bonding linear chains as comparable with
zigzag chains of cis-N2CP (Figure 3).3c The dihedral angle between
neighboring planes and the distance of N-H‚‚‚N are 83.74° and
2.980 Å, respectively.12 The nearest Cu(III)-Cu(III) distance is
10.83 Å which is longer than that of cis-isomer (7), 8.40 Å,
reflecting the linear structure of 5a.
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(6) The most possible tautomeric form estimated by DFT calculations of 3 is
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(7) Less amount of oxidant (0.5 equiv of DDQ) gave the nonconjugated
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27.0071(18) Å, c ) 14.7614(10) Å, â ) 98.643(2)°, V ) 4193.6(5) Å3,
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) 91.195(2)°, V ) 5045.7(7) Å3, Dc ) 1.710 g/cm3, Z ) 4, R ) 0.0792,
wR (all data) ) 0.2433, GOF ) 0.968 (I > 2σ(I)).
Figure 3. Hydrogen bonding 1-D chain in the solid state of Cu(III) complex
(5a). Dotted lines indicate hydrogen bondings. Solvent molecules are omitted
for clarity.
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In the Cu(III) complexes, both cis- and trans-N2CP serve as
trianionic ligands despite the difference of preferential tautomeric
form (inner 3H or 4H) in the free base. As the result, just like an
imidazole, one of the nitrogen atoms at the periphery is protonated
(NH), and the other is deprotonated (N). The relative arrangement
of such an acid-base pair in the Cu(III)N2CP determines the
structures of the hydrogen-bonding assemblies.13 As the N2CP is a
potent tetraanionic ligand, the redox change Cu(II)/Cu(III) or
Cu(III)/Cu(IV), similar to the Cu(II)/Cu(III) change in the NCP
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