We have synthesized 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octachloro-meso-tetraphenylporphyrinatooxidovanadium(iv) (VOTPPCl8) and characterized by various spectroscopic (UV-Vis, IR and EPR) techniques, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and elemental analysis. The DFT optimized structure of VOTPPCl8 in CH3CN exhibited a highly nonplanar saddle shape conformation of the porphyrin macrocycle. The cyclic voltammogram of VOTPPCl8 showed a 500 mV anodic shift in the first ring reduction potential and 220 mV in the first ring oxidation potential compared to VOTPP indicating the electron deficient nature of the porphyrin π-system and further proving the existence of a nonplanar conformation of the macrocycle in solution. Further, VOTPPCl8 exhibited very high thermal stability till 390 °C as indicated in its thermogram. The oxidation state of the metal ion (V(IV)) was confirmed by EPR spectroscopy and VOTPPCl8 exhibited an axial spectrum which corresponds to the axially compressed dxy(1) configuration. VOTPPCl8 was utilised for the selective epoxidation of various olefins in good yields with very high TOF numbers (6566-9650 h(-1)) in the presence of H2O2 as an oxidant and NaHCO3 as a promoter in a CH3CN/H2O mixture. The oxidoperoxidovanadium(v) species is expected to be the intermediate during the catalytic reaction which is probed by (51)V NMR spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF mass analysis. Notably, VOTPPCl8 is stable after the catalytic reaction and doesn't form a μ-oxo dimer due to the highly electron deficient nonplanar porphyrin core and can be reused for several cycles.

Reactions between the tridentate ONN donor ligands, Hbzpy-tch () and Hbzpy-inh (), with [V(IV)O(acac)2] in dry methanol give two different types of complexes, [V(IV)O(acac)(bzpy-tch)] () and [V(IV)O(OMe)(bzpy-inh)] (), respectively. Irrespective of their nature in methanol upon aerial oxidation and precipitation both yield dinuclear [{V(V)O(bzpy-tch)}2(μ-O)2] () and [{V(V)O(bzpy-inh)}2(μ-O)2] (). Treatment of or in methanol with H2O2 yields the oxidomonoperoxidovanadium(v) complexes [{V(V)O(bzpy-tch)}2(μ-O2)2] () and [V(V)O(O2)(bzpy-inh)] (). Reactions of and with imidazolomethylpolystyrene cross-linked with 5% divinylbenzene (PS-im) in DMF give the polymer-supported PS-im[V(V)O2(bzpy-inh)] () and PS-im[V(V)O2(bzpy-tch)] (). The compounds are characterized by various spectroscopic techniques and compounds and were also analyzed by thermal, atomic force microscopy (AFM), field-emission scanning electron micrographs (FE-SEM) as well as energy dispersive X-ray (EDAX) studies. The molecular structures of and of [V(V)O(O2)(bzpy-inh)(H2O)]·0.5MeOH () were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, confirming the μ-bis(O) and ONN binding mode in the dinuclear complexes and , as well as the side-on coordination of the peroxido ligand in and . The polymer-grafted compounds and were used for the catalytic oxidation of isoeugenol using aqueous H2O2 as an oxidant. The intermediate peroxido species, expected to be involved during catalytic action, were also generated from solutions of and studied by UV-Vis and (51)V NMR. The catalytic activity of the several systems was tested and the polymer-supported versions showed higher conversions than their neat counterparts. The polymer-supported complexes allow for recyclable catalytic systems, thus providing additional advantages over their homogeneous counterparts in terms of increased catalyst lifetime and easier separation from the reaction mixture.

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