The Exchange of Cyclometalated Ligands

Reactions of cyclometalated compounds are numerous. This account is focused on one of such reactions, the exchange of cyclometalated ligands, a reaction between a cyclometalated compound and an incoming ligand that replaces a previously cyclometalated ligand to form a new metalacycle: + H-C*~Z ⇄ + H-C~Y. Originally discovered for PdII complexes with Y/Z = N, P, S, the exchange appeared to be a mechanistically challenging, simple, and convenient routine for the synthesis of cyclopalladated complexes. Over four decades it was expanded to cyclometalated derivatives of platinum, ruthenium, manganese, rhodium, and iridium. The exchange, which is also questionably referred to as transcyclometalation, offers attractive synthetic possibilities and assists in disclosing key mechanistic pathways associated with the C–H bond activation by transition metal complexes and C–M bond cleavage. Both synthetic and mechanistic aspects of the exchange are reviewed and discussed.

Studies on the interaction of selenite and selenium with sulphur donors. Part 4. Thiosulfate

Raman and Se-77 NMR spectroscopy confirm that when selenous acid is reduced by thiosulfate in water selenopentathionate and tetrathionate are formed.[Formula: see text]Depending upon the stoichiometry and pH, two isomers of the selenopentathionate ion, O- and S-bonded, are formed. Insufficiently acid solutions cause decomposition to selenium and tetrathionate ion.[Formula: see text]Fresh solutions prepared from crystalline sodium selenopentathionate and water undergo slow decompositon. NMR and Raman spectra show the presence of both the O-bonded and S-bonded linkage isomers. The O-bonded isomer facilitates the formation of tetrathionate. Addition of thiosulfate to selenotrithionate solution or sulfite to selenopentathionate solution yields trithionate with no indication of dithionate or tetrathionate formation. This suggests that simple S—S bond formation at selenium does not occur but that there may be direct attack of the incoming ligand on the attached ligand. Key words: selenite, thiosulfate, selenopentathionate, Se-77 NMR, Raman spectroscopy, linkage isomerism.

Ligand exchange reactions of vanadium(III) β diketonate complexes

The kinetics of ligand exchange reactions of V(III) β diketonates have been studied. The replacement of acetylacetone by hexafluoroacetylacetone involves a rate law with both first- and second-order terms in the incoming ligand. The replacement of acetylacetone by deuteroacetyl-acetone involves terms zero-order and first-order in the incoming ligand. Both reactions are markedly catalyzed by acids and inhibited by bases. A mechanism involving a dangling ligand intermediate is suggested. The rates of ligand exchange are much less than the rates of isomerization.

The trans effect in cobalt(III) complexes. Kinetics and mechanism of substitution of cobalt(III) sulphito complexes

Equilibrium constants K and rate constants kf have been measured, at 25°C and ionic strength of 1.0, for the substitution of the labile water molecule in trans-[aquabis(ethylenediamine)sulphito-cobalt(III)] ion by thiosulphate ion (K = 1.8×102 mol-1 1., kf = 1.27×103 mol-1 1. s-1), thiocyanate ion (2.5×103, 2.75×102), nitrite ion (1.0×103, 2.06×102), azide ion (2.9×102, 2.4×102) ferricyanide ion (-, 1.72×103), hydrogen azide (< 1.2,1.4×10), ammonia (3.0, 6.7) and imidazole (2.6×102, 5.2). ��� The correlation of these rate constants with charge on the incoming ligand, as well as a decrease in the apparent second-order rate constants observed at high concentrations of the anionic ligands, requires a rapid outer-sphere pre-equilibrium step followed by a rate- determining dissociative interchange of the incoming ligand with the bound water molecule. The activation energy of the thiocyanate substitution was found to be 48 kJ mol-1. Aquation of cis- [azidobis(ethylenediamine)-sulphitocobalt(III)] ion, in the range of hydrogen ion concentration between 10-2 and 0.2 M, was found to give the trans-aquasulphito complex with a first-order rate constant consistent with the equation ��������������������������� k = 4.9×10-4[H+]+1.0×10-5 s-1 at 25°C and ionic strength 1.0.