Few families of compounds have been as intensely studied as iron porphyrin complexes. In spite of this, a truly four-coordinate Fe(III) porphyrin cation has never before been reported.1 The exceptional electrophilicity of the four-coordinate [FeIII(Porph)]+ cation will even coordinate arene solvent upon crystallization if the counteranion is extremely non-coordinating, as in the work of Reed wi...
