Cobalt Corroles with Bis‐Ammonia or Mono‐DMSO Axial Ligands. Electrochemical, Spectroscopic Characterizations and Ligand Binding Properties

International audience; Four bis-ammonia ligated cobalt corroles and four mono-DMSO ligated cobalt corroles with different mesoaryl substituents on the macrocycle (A 2 Band A 3-corroles) were synthesized and investigated as to their electrochemical and spec-troscopic properties under different solution conditions. The complexation energies of the investigated cobalt corroles were theoretically calculated to illustrate the propensity of the cobalt center for pentacoordination or hexa-coordination with various axial ligands (DMSO, CO, py and NH 3). The structure of one hexacoordinate bis-NH 3 cobalt corrole complex was also determined by X-ray diffraction.