Effect of Imidazole on the Electrochemistry of Zinc Porphyrins: An Electrochemical and Computational Study
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Abstract
In this study, the electrochemical behavior of zinc meso-substituted porphyrins in the presence of imidazole is examined by using both cyclic voltammetry (CV) and density functional theory (DFT) methods. The results show that the first half-wave oxidation potentials (1st E 1/2 ) of zinc porphyrins complexed with imidazole all move to the negative side, while the second ones (2nd E 1/2 ) move to the positive side, resulting in larger half-wave oxidation potential splittings of the two oxidation states (Δ E = second E 1/2 – first E 1/2 ) comparing with the zinc porphyrins. By employing DFT calculations, we have found that both sterically controlled inter π-conjugation between porphyrin rings and meso-substituted phenyl groups and deformation of porphyrin rings do play important roles in contributing to the half-wave oxidation potentials. Imidazole exhibits strong effects on the deformation of porphyrin rings which is dominant in determining the first E 1/2 while the inter π-conjugation between porphyrin rings and meso-substituted phenyl groups mainly contributes to the second E 1/2 . Without imidazole, the inter π-conjugation between porphyrin rings and meso-substituted phenyl groups is the only important criterion which effects both first E 1/2 and second E 1/2 of zinc porphyrins.
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| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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