Ammine Complexes of Osmium, Including Amminenitrosyls

Submitted by F. BOTTOMLEY and S. B. TONG Checked by R. O. HARRIST and N. K. HOTAt 

Until recently ammine complexes of osmium have been little studied compared with their ruthenium analogs. This appears to have been caused by the lack of suitable synthetic routes to them. The discovery of pentaammine(dini-trogen)osmium (II) opened convenient routes to pentaammines of osmium (III), and a convenient synthesis of hexaammineosmium(IIl)2 gave new routes to the previously unknown nitrosyls of osmium(II). Here are given the synthesis of [Os(NH3)s(N2)]l2 and its conversion to [Os(NH3)5l]l2 the synthesis of [Os(NH3)6]l3 and its conversion to [Os(NH3)5(NO)]X3 H20(X = Cl, Br, I) and the preparation of [OsX(NH3)4(NO)]2+(X = OH, Cl, Br, I) from [Os(NH3)5(NO)]3+. 

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