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Easy Demetalation of Porphyrins
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A simple, mild method to convert nickel porphyrins to free-base porphyrins using a Grignard reagent
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Porphyrins are essential in nature, playing key roles in oxygen transport, storage, and photosynthesis. To mimic these biological functions, scientists have synthesized many porphyrin derivatives. Nickel porphyrins are widely used due to their ability to be easily characterized by NMR spectroscopy, thanks to the diamagnetic nature of nickel. However, they are unsuitable for photophysical studies as as their photoexcited states decay to the ground state in a matter of picoseconds. To overcome this, researchers must remove the nickel before studying these properties, but conventional methods require harsh acidic conditions that can degrade the material.
Atsuhiro Osuka and colleagues, Kyoto University, Japan, have found that treatment of metal porphyrins, such as nickel, zinc, copper, and silver porphyrins, with the Grignard reagent 4-methylphenylmagnesium bromide in toluene results in smooth transmetalation of magnesium for nickel and the other metals. The magnesium can then be removed under mildly acidic conditions to afford the free-base porphyrin. The team found that cobalt and palladium porphyrins do not react in the same way.
The denickelation mechanism begins with the nucleophilic attack of the arylmagnesium reagent on the nickel center of the porphyrin, forming a nickelate porphyrin intermediate. Subsequent nickel–nitrogen bond cleavage allows magnesium insertion, leading to a magnesium–porphyrin complex. A second arylmagnesium equivalent further facilitates nickel displacement, yielding magnesium porphyrin and diarylnickel(II), which undergoes reductive elimination to form nickel(0) and a biaryl byproduct. The researchers propose a similar pathway for zinc, copper, and silver porphyrins.
This new method provides a much easier alternative to the typically harsh, acidic conditions traditionally required for the demetalation of metal porphyrins.
Reference
Demetalation of Metal Porphyrins via Magnesium Porphyrins by Reaction with Grignard Reagent,
K. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, H. Yorimitsu, A. Osuka,
Chem. Eur. J. 2013.
https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201301146
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