Alkali metal complexes acid anions

Alkali metal complexes may be analyzed for their metal content by simple acidimetric titration. Analysis for adduct (hydroxide) content is more involved, and entails the assumption that there can be no water of hydration attached to an alcoholate anion. The method involves first, dissolving the complex in anhydrous methanol, and then, treating the resulting solution with an appropriate anhydrous add, such as tartaric acid. The acid serves to convert any hydroxide ion into water (reaction S),... 

Adenosine triphosphate alkali metal complexes, 34 vanadyl complexes, 568 Alane, 123 amine adducts, 107 phosphine adducts, 111 Alane, alkoxy-, 124 Alane, amino-, 109 Alane, imino-, 109 Alkali metal complexes, 1-70 acid anions, 30 acid salts, 30 bipyridyl, 13 crown ethers cavity size, 38 cryptates... 

Block copolymers of (R,S)-(3-butyrolactone and eCL have been synthesized by combining the anionic ROP of the first monomer with the coordinative ROP of the second one (Scheme 15) [71]. The first step consisted of the synthesis of hydroxy-terminated atactic P(3BL by anionic polymerization initiated by the alkali-metal salt of a hydroxycarboxylic acid complexed with a crown ether. The hydroxyl end group of P(3BL could then be reacted with AlEt3 to form a macroinitiator for the eCL ROP. 

Alkali metal salts of such tetracyanonickelate(II) anion may be crystallized from such solutions as hydrates, K2 [Ni(CN)4 3H2O upon evaporation of the solution. In strong cyanide solution, a pentacyano complex anion, red penta-cyanonickelate(ll), [Ni(CN)5] forms. Strong acids decompose cyanonickelate salts, precipitating nickel cyanide. 

Modem work on these and related bare post-transition element clusters began in the 1960s after Corbett and coworkers found ways to obtain crystalline derivatives of these post-transition element clusters by the use of suitable counterions. Thus, crystalline derivatives of the cluster anions had cryptate or polyamine complexed alkali metals as countercations [8]. Similarly, crystalline derivatives of the cluster cations had counteractions, such as AlCLj, derived from metal halide strong Lewis acids [9]. With crystalhne derivatives of these clusters available, their structures could be determined definitively using X-ray diffraction methods. 

Bipyridine is likewise reduced to 4,4 -bipiperidine by sodium and amyl alcohol and by catalytic hydrogenation. " 2,2 -Dimethyl-4,4 -bipyridine is reduced to 2,2 -dimethyl-4,4 -bipiperidine. Electrochemical reduction of 4,4 -bipyridine affords 4,4 -bipiperidine and some partly reduced 4,4 -bipyridines. Further work on the electroreduction of 4,4 -bipyridine has been reported. Reduction of 4,4 -bipyridine by tin and hydrochloric acid " or by controlled catalytic hydrogenation - gives l,2,3,4,5,6-hexahydro-4,4 -bipyridine. 4,4 -Bipyridine is reduced to its 1,4-dihydro derivative by bisdihydropyridyl metal complexes and to its radical anion by alkali metals and related processes. " " The ionization constant of the radical anion has been determined. ... 

BF3 reacts smoothly, in inert solvents, with alkali metal sulfates and phosphates to give stable 2 1 and 3 1 complexes (Table 9), whereas the intermediate complexes that form with NOT, SO and COl- decompose to [BF4] and B203.55 Brownstein et al. have established114 that BF3 reacts easily with alkylammonium salts in CH2C12 or liquid S02. [BF3A]- complex anions are formed with the salts of strong acids (equation 17) whereas complexes with salts of weak acids easily undergo disproportionation (equation 18) and/or conversion into a 2 1... 

Scandium complexes with chloride ion in aqueous solution, and there is ion-exchange evidence for anionic species, presumably ScClJ aq, in concentrated hydrochloric acid,119 while values of K = 90 and K2 - 37 for the first two association constants have been reported.1211 Solid salts of the anions ScClt-, St Cll- and ScCl2- have been isolated with alkali metal cations.121,122 It seems likely that both the first two species are octahedral and bridged-octahedral respectively, in line with Cs2NaScCl6 which has an X-ray powder pattern in accord with a face-centred cubic structure.123... 

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