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  • Title: Cobalt(II) "Scorpionate" complexes as electronic ground state models for cobalt-substituted zinc enzymes: Structure investigation by magnetic circular dichroism.
    Author: Plugis NM, Rudd ND, Krzystek J, Swenson DC, Telser J, Larrabee JA.
    Journal: J Inorg Biochem; 2020 Feb; 203():110876. PubMed ID: 31756558.
    Abstract:
    Zinc centers in pseudo-tetrahedral geometry are widely found in biology, often with three histidine ligands from protein. The trispyrazolylborate "scorpionate" ligand is used as a model for this tris(histidine) motif, and spectroscopically active CoII is often used as a substitute for spectroscopically silent ZnII. In this work, four pseudo-tetrahedral scorpionate complexes with the formula (Tpt-Bu,Tn)CoL, where Tpt-Bu,Tn = hydrotris(3-tert-butyl, 5-2'-thienyl-pyrazol-1-yl)borate anion and L = Cl-, N3-, NCO-, or NCS-, were studied using variable-temperature, variable-field magnetic circular dichroism (VTVH MCD) spectroscopy. The major goal was to determine the axial and rhombic zero field splitting (ZFS) parameters (D and E, respectively) of these S = 3/2 systems and compare these ZFS parameters to those determined previously by high-frequency and -field electron paramagnetic resonance (HFEPR) spectroscopy on the same (L = Cl- and NCS-) or closely related complexes. Additionally, HFEPR studies were undertaken here on the complexes with L = N3-, NCO-. Crystal structures for these two complexes are also first reported here. The values of D determined by VTVH MCD were + 12.8 and + 3.6 cm-1 for the L = Cl- and NCS- complexes, respectively. These values are in close agreement with those for the same complexes as previously determined by HFEPR. The values of D determined by VTVH MCD were + 3.0 and + 6.6 cm-1 for the L = N3- and NCO- complexes, respectively. These values were not as close to those determined by HFEPR in the present study, which are 4.2 cm-1 ≤ |D| ≤ 5.6 cm-1 in Tpt-Bu,TnCoN3, and 8.3 cm-1 ≤ |D| ≤ 11.0 cm-1 in Tpt-Bu,TnCoNCO. The bands in MCD spectra of these complexes were assigned in C3v symmetry and a complete ligand-field analysis of the MCD data was made using the Angular Overlap Model (AOM), which is compared to previous results.
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