Coordination of imidazole to manganese(III) porphyrazine and phthalocyanine modified by multiple peripheral substitution by trifluoromethylphenyl, trifluoromethylphenoxy, tert-butylphenyl, and 3,5-ditert-butylphenoxy groups was studied by spectrophotometric titration, and UV, visible, and IR spectroscopy. Manganese(III) complexes were found to react with imidazole with formation of 1 : 1 complexes in one-step reversible process. Specificity of the effect of multiple substitution of the macroring on quantitative parameters of reactions with the organic base is related to structural features of the organic complexes.Biologically active porphyrin complexes, in particular chlorophyll, blood heme in hemoglobin, catalases, and peroxidases, are characterized by a developed system of functional substituents. The action of these complexes in natural entities implies coordinative saturation of the central metal ion [1][2][3]. Coordinative unsaturation is achieved by choice of metal atom and formation of periphery of macroheterocycle; the larger the formal charge on the metal ion, the higher its coordinative unsaturation. Complexes of metal cations whose charge exceeds in absolute value the charge of porphyrin dianion (P 2-) attract the strongest interest. Coordination of bases to complexes of highly charged cations is complicated due to possibility for redox transformations of the central atom and replacement of existing acyclic ligands [4][5][6]. Manganese(III) complexes are appropriate subjects for studying the effect of structural modification of organic ligand in such reactions. Strong bases, such as piperidine, diethylamine, triethylamine, and 3-hydroxypiperidine, favor reduction of (X)Mn III TPP (where X is a singly charged anionic ligand, and TPP is 5,10,15,20-tetraphenyl-21H,23H-porphyrin dianion) to manganese(II) complexes in toluene [7,8]. The resulting molecular complexes possess different properties. Solutions of (L)Mn II P (L is methylimidazole or pyridine) are fairly resistant to atmospheric oxygen: irreversible oxidation to manganese(III) porphyrins is slow (it takes several hours), whereas Mn II P is oxidized instantaneously [9]. Comparison with analogous porphyrazine complexes makes it possible to estimate the role of aromatic system in the transmission of substituent effects on the reaction center in base coordination processes.An attempt was made [6] to determine a relation between the stability of donor-acceptor complexes of (X)Mn III TPP with bases [molecular complexes (L)(X)Mn III TPP] and the nature of anionic ligand X -. However, the effect of the structure of the organic part on the formation of molecular complexes remains an open and important problem.In the present work we studied the stoichiometry, quantitative parameters of complex formation process, and spectral properties of soluble donor-acceptor complexes of imidazole (Im) with heavily substituted porphyrazine and phthalocyanine manganese(III) complexes I-V [(AcO)Mn III TAP and (AcO)Mn III Pc, respectively].The purity of complexes I-V was c...