. 2024 Jan 20;15(9):3165–3173. doi: 10.1039/d3sc06325a

Calculated and experimental (in brackets) reduction potentials vs. Fc^+/0 for compounds 1a–d, 2a–d, 1d_rot and 2a–d_rot.

Compounds	a	b	c	d
1	−3.42	−3.00	−3.44	−2.38 (−2.13)
2	−2.26 (−2.30)	−2.04 (−2.08)	−2.30 (−2.44)	−1.29 (−1.34)
[1]^‡	—	—	—	−2.09^a
[2]^‡	−1.68^a	−1.84^b	−1.58^a	−0.78^a

Coplanar TS.

Orthogonal TS.

Calculated and experimental (in brackets) reduction potentials vs. Fc+/0 for compounds 1a–d, 2a–d, 1drot and 2a–drot.