Date of Award

2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Natural Sciences

First Advisor

Sherman, Suzanne

Keywords

Bioinorganic, Synthetic Models, Iron

Area of Concentration

Chemistry

Abstract

The N2O heteroscorpionate ligand bis-3,5-diisopropylpyrazol-1-ylacetate (bdippza) has been synthesized for use in modeling the active site of nonheme iron enzymes. The active sites of nonheme iron enzymes consist of two histidine residues and a carboxylate residue. The ligand Hbdippza can serve as a good mimic of that coordination environment due to the presence of two pyrazole groups and a carboxylate arm. The pale green crystalline bis complex Fe(bdippza)2 was isolated after treating bdippza with [NEt4]2[Cl3FeOFeCl3], and the synthesis was found to be replicable. The yield of the reaction was 6.24%. Formation of a bis complex was confirmed by FT-IR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The relevance of the complex for future synthetic models is also discussed.

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