FTIR Study of Manganese Dimers with Carboxylate Donors As Model Complexes for the Water Oxidation Complex in Photosystem II

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Abstract

The carboxylate stretching frequencies of two high-valent, di-μ-oxido bridged, manganese dimers has been studied with IR spectroscopy in three different oxidation states. Both complexes contain one monodentate carboxylate donor to each Mn ion, in one complex, the carboxylate is coordinated perpendicular to the Mn-(μ-O)(2)-Mn plane, and in the other complex, the carboxylate is coordinated in the Mn-(μ-O)(2)-Mn plane. For both complexes, the difference between the asymmetric and the symmetric carboxylate stretching frequencies decrease for both the Mn(2)(IV,IV) to Mn(2)(III,IV) transition and the Mn(2)(III,IV) to Mn(2)(III,III) transition, with only minor differences observed between the two arrangements of the carboxylate ligand versus the Mn-(μ-O)(2)-Mn plane. The IR spectra also show that both carboxylate ligands are affected for each one electron reduction, i.e., the stretching frequency of the carboxylate coordinated to the Mn ion that is not reduced also shifts. These results are discussed in relation to FTIR studies of changes in carboxylate stretching frequencies in a one electron oxidation step of the water oxidation complex in Photosystem II.

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