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An Objective Alternative To IUPAC S Approach To Assign Oxidation States
1. German Edition: DOI: 10.1002/ange.201802745
Oxidation States
International Edition: DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802745
An Objective Alternative to IUPACQs Approach To Assign Oxidation
States
Vermnica Postils, Carlos Delgado-Alonso, Josep M. Luis, and Pedro Salvador*
Abstract: The IUPAC has recently clarified the term oxidation
state (OS), and provided algorithms for its determination based
on the ionic approximation (IA) of the bonds supported by
atomic electronegativities (EN). Unfortunately, there are
a number of exceptions and ambiguities in IUPACQs algo-
rithms when it comes to practical applications. Our compre-
hensive study reveals the critical role of the chemical environ-
ment on establishing the OS, which cannot always be properly
predicted using fix atomic EN values. By identifying what we
define here as subsystems of enhanced stability within the
molecular system, the OS can be safely assigned in many cases
without invoking exceptions. New insights about the effect of
local aromaticity upon OS are revealed. Moreover, we prove
that there are intrinsic limitations of the IA that cannot be
overcome. In this context, the effective oxidation state (EOS)
analysis arises as a robust and general scheme to derive an OS
without any external guidance.
The oxidation state (OS) is one of the most fundamental
chemical concepts that is widely used for rationalization,
categorization, and prediction of chemical reactivity of
(mostly inorganic) compounds. For years, the entry of this
term on IUPACQs Gold Book discussed a set of agreed-upon
rules for deriving the OS, but no formal definition was given.
Consequently, a considerable debate can be found in the
literature discussing misconceptions, inconsistencies, or alter-
native OS assignment in non-trivial bonding situations over
the years.[1–4]
In 2009, the IUPAC set up a task group lead by
Prof. Karen aiming at tackling the conundrum. Their con-
clusions were made public in 2014, with an extensive IUPAC
Technical Report gathering over a hundred examples, and an
essay in 2015 in this journal.[5]
Final recommendations and
summary of the task group were later provided, based on
which the IUPAC Gold Book entries of OS and oxidation
number have been most recently updated.[6]
A new generic
definition for OS of an atom has been given, namely “the
atomQs charge after ionic approximation of its heteronuclear
bonds”, together with practical algorithms appropriate for
molecules and solids. The IUPAC algorithm of assigning
bonds consists in first drawing an appropriate Lewis structure
and then assigning the bond electrons to the atom according
to the bond ionicity. Although the authors first appeal to the
molecular orbital (MO) picture, they admit that the bond
ionicity should be in practice inferred from another genuine
chemical concept like the electronegativity (EN): in partic-
ular, that given by AllenQs scale.[7]
For this reason, the IUPAC
report is riddled with a number of ambiguities and caveats.
Despite the OS being intrinsically related to the electron
distribution around atoms, the IUPAC reports did not discuss
in depth the role of quantum-chemical calculations for OS
assignment. The eventual success to ascertain formal OS from
first principles has been largely hindered by the tacit
assumption that partial atomic charges determine or are at
least related to OS. Partial atomic charges account for the
(non-integer) number of electrons that are, on average,
associated to an atom by one or another partitioning
scheme, while the OS is merely an integer fictitious charge.
It is striking that many reported disputes have revolved
around the association of partial atomic charges with OS[8–12]
(for example, another debate concerning the OS of Ti in TiO2
has just sparked[13]
on the basis of partial atomic charges
computed using one or another approach), while little
attention has been paid to the few computational efforts
going beyond this misinterpretation.[14,15]
In 2015 some of us introduced a new and general scheme
to derive OS from first principles.[16]
The effective oxidation
state (EOS) method is formally applicable on equal footing to
any molecular system and for any level of theory (single
determinant and multireference wavefunctions) or electronic
state. EOS analysis relies on the so-called effective atomic
orbitals (eff-AOs),[17]
a set of distorted hybrid atomic orbitals
obtained from the part of the moleculeQs electron density that
is assigned to each atom, thus taking into account their
chemical environment. Each eff-AO comes with an occupa-
tion number, that permits their identification with core/lone
pairs, valence or virtual hybrids. In the EOS Scheme, the eff-
AOs of all atoms or fragments/ ligands[18]
are gathered for
each spin case s (alpha or beta) and ranked in decreasing
occupation number (lA,s
m ) order. The first ns
eff-AOs (where
ns
is the number of s electrons) are considered occupied
(lA,s
m !1) and the remaining empty (lA,s
m !0), leading to the
effective configuration of the atoms or fragments/ligands
within the molecule, and hence to their OS. Moreover, the
larger the difference in the occupation number of the last
occupied (ls
LO) and the first unoccupied (ls
FU) eff-AO, the
better the electron distribution provided by the underlying
wavefunction can be pictured into the discrete ionic model.
As a result, a reliability index R / min(Ra
,Rb
) is obtained
from the frontier eff-AOs, together with the OS assignment,
defined as
[*] V. Postils, C. Delgado-Alonso, Dr. J. M. Luis, Dr. P. Salvador
Institut de Qu&mica Computacional i Cat/lisi i Departament de
Qu&mica, Universitat de Girona
Maria AurHlia Capmany 69, 17003 Girona (Spain)
E-mail: pedro.salvador@udg.edu
Supporting information and the ORCID identification number(s) for
the author(s) of this article can be found under:
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201802745.
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2. Rs
¼ 100 > minð1, ls
LO@ls
FU þ 1=2Þ, where ls
LO ^ ls
FU, ð1Þ
being R = 50% the worst-case scenario, with ls
LO = ls
FU. For
further details of the EOS scheme and, in particular, in the
case of (near) degeneracy of the frontier eff-AOs, we refer to
the Supporting Information.
The eff-AOs for the atom A and spin case s are obtained
as
cA,s
m ðrÞ ¼ ðlA,s
m Þ@1=2
X
ns
i UA,s
im fA,s
i ðrÞ m 2 1, ns
A ð2Þ
fA,s
i ðrÞ / wA
ðrÞfs
i ðrÞ, ð3Þ
where lA,s
m is the occupation number of the m-th eff-AO, UA
is
the unitary matrix that diagonalizes the ns
X ns
overlap matrix
of the occupied orbitals {fA,s
i (r)}, with eigenvalues lA,s
m , {fs
i (r)}
are the molecular spin orbitals and wA
(r) is a continuous
weight function that divides the 3D-space into atomic
domains. For each atom A there are ns
A % ns
non-zero
eigenvalues, that correspond to core/lone pairs (lA,s
m & 1),
valence (ca. 0.3 % lA,s
m % ca. 0.8) and virtual (lA,s
m & 0) hybrid
orbitals.
Unlike other approaches, EOS analysis does not consider
explicitly individual bonds or localized molecular orbitals (the
wavefunction representation of a Lewis structure), so it can
tackle with no additional provisions systems with more than
one dominant Lewis structure. It can also be applied to
molecular and non-molecular crystals, as the eff-AOs can be
obtained even in the absence of an underlying atom-centered
basis set.[17]
Moreover, the EOS analysis can be easily
implemented and linked to existing electronic structure
codes.[14f,19]
Encouraged by the revision of the concept of OS, we have
systematically assessed the performance of first-principles
techniques to retrieve the OS. We have analyzed over
a hundred molecular systems using the EOS method. Most
of the examples have been selected for being either partic-
ularly challenging or ambiguous for the IUPAC algorithms,
such as Lewis and p-adducts, TM complexes with non-
innocent ligands[20]
or TM carbenes. High OS TM compounds,
currently in the spotlight,[21]
have also been analyzed. To
assess EOS method performance, we have considered
IUPACQs assignments as reference OS values, where appli-
cable. In the case of p-adducts, reference OS are those
dictated by aromaticity of the ligands, while for carbenes the
textbook ionic picture of Fischer and Schrock carbenes has
been assumed. Experimental spectroscopic or geometric data,
when available, is in agreement with the reference OS.
Figure 1 summarizes the performance of the EOS anal-
ysis. In the majority of cases, the EOS approach predicts,
without using any external guidance, OS that fully coincide
with IUPACQs recipe. Where the application of the ionic
approximation (IA) is ambiguous, one of the plausible OS
given in the IUPAC reports or the literature is generally
obtained. We pinpoint here the most illustrative examples and
refer the reader to the Supporting Information for a complete
account of the results, including name, formula, and figures of
all molecules labeled herein with bold numbers in parenthesis.
The determination of very high oxidation states is
straightforward within the IA, but it may represent a challenge
for first principles analyses. To test the applicability of the
EOS method, we have explored polyoxides and polyhydrides
TM systems with formally very high OS, and identified up to
OsVIII
and IrIX
in OsO4 (30) and IrO4
+
(31) species. The
assignment of TiIV
in TiO2 (26) is undisputable, thus clearing
up the doubts expressed previously.[13]
For this particular set
of systems, partial atomic charges of the TM (obtained with
the same method as the eff-AOs) lie in the 1.5–2.7 range,
showing no correlation with OS.
Complexes bearing non-innocent ligands are among the
most difficult systems for IUPACQs algorithms because
several connectivities or Lewis structures are a priori possible.
Several types of non-innocent ligands have been considered
with the EOS method and the expected OS have been
obtained in all cases. For example, EOS analysis correctly
differentiates nitrosyl ligands between NO, NO+
, and NO@
types, even if they occur simultaneously in the same complex
(for example, Fe(NO)4
@
(35) exhibits two NO and two NO@
ligands). Another illustrative example is the Ni(S2C2Me2)2
n@
series, with n = 0,1,2 (36–38). In its most reduced form, the
system is best described as a NiII
and two closed-shell thiolate
(@2) ligands. In the oxidized forms the Ni atom retains its NiII
character, and the oxidation locally occurs on the thiolate
ligands.
A number of dihydrogen/hydrido complexes (39–43) have
also been scrutinized, being paradigmatic examples of ligand
non-innocence. Hydride (@1) ligands are well-identified with
EOS analysis for IrIII
and RuII
complexes. When H2 acts as
a hapto ligand, the corresponding OS obtained is (0), as
expected. For example, the EOS analysis clearly yields a H2(0)
ligand with R = 77% for the Fe complex (42), where H2 shows
a typical H@H distance of about 0.8 c. And even if there is
a significant stretching of the H@H distance up to more than
1.6 c,[22]
as in the Os(Cl)H2(L) complex (43) of Figure 2, the
EOS analysis defining both H atoms on the same fragment
yields a H2(0) unit with R = 58%.
The ability of IUPACQs algorithms to assign OS begins to
slip noticeably when they are applied to adducts. For instance,
sulfur dioxide can be found in TM complexes acting as either
Z-type or L-type ligands, or even forming a p-complex (44–
46, Figure 3). Each bonding situation requires a different
strategy to derive OS within the IA.[5]
In L-type compounds,
SO2 acts as a Lewis base (LB) donating two electrons to the
TM center to form the bond. Since S is more electronegative
than Rh, by virtue of the IA, the electron pair is assigned to S,
Figure 1. Summary of the performance of EOS analysis for 101
molecular systems in comparison with IUPAC’s reports[5]
and previous
literature.
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3. which was providing it in the first place. Overall, the OS of the
SO2 moiety is (0). However, in the Z-type case, the molecular
geometry already suggests that the ligand acts as a Lewis acid
(LA), thereby accepting an electron pair from the metal. The
application of the IUPAC algorithm without any special
provision would result in a SO2 (2@) moiety, which is at odds
with the diamagnetism of the complex and the reversible
binding of SO2. Then, to reconcile the OS assignment with
experimental evidences, an exception to the IA based on
AllenQs EN is introduced, namely, when the more electro-
negative atom is a net acceptor of electrons, the sign of the IA
must be reversed. However, there is no way to predict
whether the exception must be invoked or not without an
external input. On the contrary, the EOS analysis naturally
yields in all cases the expected neutral SO2 ligand, no matter
the bonding pattern and without any external guidance.
The expected results are also obtained with EOS analysis
for a set of five adducts (47–51) where the LA is a boron atom
and a lower-EN TM acts as a LB. Moreover, we have also
studied three adducts where both the LA and LB are TM, for
which the inherent ambiguity of the IUPAC heuristic
approach is particularly notorious. While in Fe{(CO)2Cp}@
Al{(C6H5)3} (52) and Ir{(CO)2(C5(CH3)5)}@W{(CO)5} (54) the
LB is the high-EN moiety (Fe and Ir, respectively), in the
analogous case of Rh{(CO)2Cp}@Pt{(CO)(C6F5)2} (53) the LB
is the low-EN Rh moiety and the abovementioned exception
must be applied. Notice that the acid/base character of the
moieties is given by the TM together with its ligands, and not
merely by nature and fix EN value of the TM atom. On the
other hand, the effect of the chemical environment is
naturally accounted for in the WF and thus EOS is able to
actually make predictions while treating all systems on equal
footing.
The OS assignment of systems involving p-adducts is also
particularly challenging following IUPACQs procedures, as the
hapticity should be known beforehand and yet it does not
uniquely determine the OS. It is the aromaticity of the p-
systems that, at the end of the day, determines the OS of both
the TM and the p-system. However, if the planarity of the p-
system is lost (which might be difficult to foresee) the
aromatic character can no longer be invoked and no clear
guidelines are provided. Consequently, we have also carried
out an in-depth examination of a large number of p-adducts,
including 17 complexes (56–72) mentioned in the IUPACQs
reports, as well as all low-lying electronic states of a series of
bis(cycloheptatrienyl) TM complexes (73–86) considered by
Wang et al.[23]
All p-systems with five-member rings (56–62)
are readily considered by the EOS analysis as 6p aromatic
anions (@1), thus following HgckelQs rule disregarding the
hapticity even when a cyclopentadienyl unit is bonded to two
TM (57). By the same rationale, in the case of six-membered
rings, neutral benzene-like moieties would be a priori
expected.
The case of the inverse-sandwich diuranium complex (64)
depicted in Figure 4 is very instructive. Karen points towards
an anionic (@4) C6H5Me moiety with 10p electrons.[5]
Note
that neutral (0) with 6p electrons would also be a plausible
option. Nevertheless, there is one more element in this puzzle
that has apparently gone unnoticed. The complex has
a ground triplet state and careful analysis of the electron
distribution reveals that the two unpaired electrons are
essentially located on the p-system. Indeed, the EOS analysis
assigns 5 alpha and 3 beta electrons to the p-system. That
makes a total of 8p electrons for a formal anionic (@2) p
system and two UIV
centers. This a priori odd result turns out
to be in full agreement with BairdQs rule of aromaticity for
triplet states.[24]
This behavior is not unique and it is also found
in several (74, 76–78) of the bis(cycloheptatryenil) TM
complexes analyzed. Notice that the local spin state of the
p-system does not necessarily match that of the complex. For
instance, Mn(C7H7)2 complex (77) is a ground-state doublet
Figure 2. Representation of the Os(Cl)H2(L) complex 43 (hydrogen
atoms in the ligands omitted for clarity) and results of the EOS
analysis.
Figure 3. Binding modes of the SO2 ligand and results of EOS analysis
(see text).
Figure 4. Sample cases of p-system ionicity driven by Baird’s aroma-
ticity (right) and conjugated segments (left), and results of the EOS
analysis.
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4. and the EOS analysis reveals that both C7H7 ligands are
triplets antiferromagnetically coupled to a high-spin MnII
center. Thus, we can state that the local spin state of the p-
systems critically determines their formal ionic charge, and
consequently also the OS of the TM. Computational
approaches are the only way to reveal such details of the
electronic structure.
In other p-adducts, the aromaticity (either Hgckel or
Baird) is no longer the main driving force. When the p-system
is not planar, the interpretation of its ionic character should
be made in terms of conjugated delocalized segments, for
which the electron count is much less predictable. For
instance, in Co(CO)3(h3
-C7H7) (70, Figure 4), the ligand is
clearly divided into a butadiene segment bearing two double
bonds and an allyl segment coordinated to the metal. Karen
assumes an allyl-anion (@1) segment[5]
whereas EOS analysis
predicts an allyl cation (+ 1), for an overall 6p bent C7H7
ligand. Either of the two options can hardly be considered
more appropriate without additional information, but we can
safely claim that EOS provides the most appropriate formal
ionic picture derived from its electronic distribution.
Thus far, we have seen the EOS analysis predicts without
introducing exceptions the OS of the most challenging cases
for the IUPAC algorithms. The results of the EOS analysis
only dissent for a particular subset of systems, that basically
involve main-group elements exhibiting several homonuclear
bonds, like borane derivatives and homoatomic chains.
Within the IA, the use of the EN criterion implies that the
electrons of a homonuclear bond must always be equally
divided between the atoms, whether they are symmetry-
equivalent or not. We should bear in mind that the homo-
nuclear bond is the worst-case scenario for the ionic model
picture of the OS, as usually homonuclear bonds are highly
covalent. In the language of EOS analysis, formally breaking
pure homonuclear bonds results in pairs of eff-AOs belonging
to different fragments with very similar occupations, which
eventually (if they become the frontier eff-AOs) leads to very
low values of R (close to 50%), thus blurring the OS obtained.
Moreover, the results of any quantum mechanical analysis
will necessarily reflect the symmetry properties of the system,
so if the two atoms/fragments are not symmetry-equivalent,
their OS may be different. We believe that although this issue
warrants mention, the OS of this kind of systems is not
important for their characterization. Conversely, since the
postulated homolytic splitting does not operate in EOS
analysis, a formal heterolytic homonuclear bond cleavage is
possible. This is indeed the expected result for Lewis adducts
where both the LA and LB moieties bear the same central
atom, like for instance some unsymmetrically substituted
diphosphines.[25]
In the simplest model system (55) on
Figure 5, the EOS analysis clearly supports the Lewis pair
picture originated from the heterolytic cleavage of the
homonuclear dative bond (R = 82%). The rationale behind
this OS assignment is the formation of a 6p aromatic
phospholide anion.
Thus, most of the ambiguities and caveats of IUPACQs
algorithms are overcome by first recognizing the appropriate
driving force behind the adduct formation, namely the
aromaticity (Hgckel or Baird) or the n-plet stability. We
introduce the general principle of identifying subsystems of
enhanced stability within the molecular system, to facilitate
proper OS assignment. Such principle readily operates in
EOS analysis as all such information is enclosed on the
wavefunction.
TM carbenes challenge another key rule associated with
the application of the IA, namely all electrons of the bonds
between two atoms are assigned to the most EN one. We have
seen many examples exhibiting formal multiple bonds where
the EOS analysis nicely reproduces this rule. Yet, is there
room for assigning the electrons of each bond to different
atoms in a multiple bond scenario? TM carbene complexes
are classified according to their reactivity as Fischer or
Schrock carbenes. Radical TM carbenes have also been
reported, and are best represented by a carbon–metal single
bond and an additional unpaired electron sitting on the
carbene fragment. From an OS perspective, the carbene
moiety in Schrock carbenes is considered ionic (@2), in line
with its nucleophilic character. This is readily obtained by
applying the IA to the carbon-metal bonds according to the
EN criterion. However, in Fisher-type systems, the carbene
moiety is considered neutral (0). One way to reach this OS is
to assume that both the s and p bonds exhibit null polarity,
but this is against the general rule for resolving the IA in
heteronuclear bonds. Another alternative, depicted in
Figure 6, is to consider the s bond polarized towards the
carbene and the p bond polarized towards the metal, who
keeps the electrons. This textbook picture challenges the rule
that the IA equally applies to all electrons of the bonds
between two atoms.
We have applied the EOS analysis to a set of prototype
singlet Fisher (87–91) and Schrock (92–98) carbenes,[26]
as well
as several complexes characterized as radical carbenes (99–
101). In six out of the seven Schrock-type carbenes, and in
four out of five Fisher-type carbenes, the expected ionic CR2
(@2) and neutral (0) character is obtained, respectively. As no
pseudodegeneracies are observed on the occupation of the
eff-AOs, the (0) OS on the carbene fragment necessarily
originates from a different splitting of the s and p bonds.
Visual inspection of the eff-AOs of the carbene fragment
clearly supports the picture of Figure 6. Finally, the EOS
analysis also reproduces the (@1) OS for the carbene moiety
in all radical carbenes in either singlet, doublet or triplet
states.
To summarize, the direct application of an algorithm
exclusively focused on the nature of the free atoms involved
Figure 5. The N-heterocyclic phosphenium–phospholide anion adduct
55 and results of the EOS analysis. P@P distance [b] and bond order
are also indicated.
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5. in each bond (as the IA approach supported by AllenQs EN
scale) precludes the invocation of a general rule for OS
assignment that accounts for all difficult cases without
exceptions. The chemical environment of the atoms is an
essential information that should be always explicitly used to
determine the proper OS. Here we suggest the identification
of subsystems of enhanced stability. However, intrinsic
limitations of the IA revealed here still remain. Opportunely,
the EOS method overcomes these pitfalls by not relying on
Lewis structures and by properly taking into account the
chemical environment encoded in the wavefunction. While in
some cases EOS and IUPACQs assignment differ, we consider
the former conceptually better, as it has the ability to predict
its own limits of applicability by means of the values of the R
index. When the R values are very close to 50% owing to
near-degeneracies on the occupations of the eff-AOs, the OS
assignation should be taken with caution. The EOS analysis
emerges as a general scheme to safely retrieve the OS without
any external guidance.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Dr. Eduard Matito for his helpful feedback
on the manuscript. This research has been funded by the
Spanish MINECO Projects CTQ2014-59212-P and CTQ2014-
52525-P, the Catalan DIUEs 2014SGR1202 and 2014SGR931,
the UdG grant GdRCompet-UdG2017, and the FEDER
grant UNGI104E-801. V.P. thanks the support from the
Spanish MINECO BES-2012-052801.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Keywords: adducts · carbenes · chemical concepts ·
computational chemistry · effective oxidation states
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Manuscript received: March 5, 2018
Revised manuscript received: April 25, 2018
Accepted manuscript online: May 22, 2018
Version of record online: June 25, 2018
Figure 6. Pictorial representation of singlet Schrock, Fisher, and radical
TM–carbene complexes and the expected OS.
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