Bridging unsymmetric

A single CO bridging two M atoms - as in the case of the rather unstable Os2(CO)9 shown above - is uncommon unless the M atoms form additional bonds, apart from the terminal M-C bonds. An example is Co4(CO)12 (Fig. 8.8 in Section 8.5). In a number of cases, semi-bridging carbonyl is encountered two M atoms (directly bonded to each other) are bridged unsymmetrically by one or more CO groups so that one M-C distance is appreciably shorter than the other. Triply-bridging CO is also found, i.e. the C atom is bonded to three M atoms. 

Symmetrical diaLkyl peroxides are commonly named as such, eg, dimethyl peroxide. For unsymmetrical diaLkyl peroxides, the two radicals usually are hsted ia alphabetical order, eg, ethyl methyl peroxide. For organomineral peroxides or complex stmctures, ie, where R and R are difficult to name as radicals, the peroxide is named as an aLkyldioxy derivative, although alkylperoxy is stUl used by many authors. CycHc peroxides are normally named as heterocychc compounds, eg, 1,2-dioxane, or by substitutive oxa nomenclature, eg, 1,2-dioxacyclohexane however, when the two oxygens form a bridge between two carbon atoms of a ring, the terms epidioxy or epiperoxy are frequendy used. The resulting polycycHc stmcture has been called an endoperoxide, epiperoxide, or transaimular peroxide. 

The 1-alkoxytitatranes can be synthesized by the reaction of equimolar amounts of tetraalkyl titanates and triethanolamine (105). X-ray crystallographic analysis of the soHd isolated from the reaction of one mole of triethanolamine and one mole of TYZOR TPT confirms the stmcture as a centrosymmetric dimer having a Ti isopropoxy nitrilotriethoxy ratio of 1 1 1. The titanium atoms have achieved a coordination number of six via a rather unsymmetrical titanium—oxygen bridge (106). 

BgH22, and nonaborane(15) [19465-30-6] can generally be cleaved by nucleophiles in two ways termed symmetrical and unsymmetrical bridge... 

Examples of the unsymmetrical bridging mode (iv) are shown in the top diagram. 

Figure 11.19 Schematic diagram of the centrosymmetric dimer in [Cii2(NO ).i(py) lpy showing the two bridging nitrato groups each coordinated to the 2 Cii atoms by a single O atom the dimer also has an unsymmetrical bidentate nitrate group on each Cu.

The Amax of bridged dyes such as thiazoloindole symmetrical and unsymmetrical trimethine dyes are shifted toward shorter wavelength compared to the corresponding N-phenylthiazolocyanine. This hypsochromic shift corresponds to an electron-donating substituent in the opposition of the chain when steric hindrance is absent (121). 

Intramolecular reactions usually dominate intermolecular addition for favorable ring sizes. Semiempirical (AMI) calculations found the intramolecular TS favorable to a comparable intermolecular reaction.68 (See Figure 4.1) The intramolecular TS, which is nearly 4 kcal/mol more stable, is quite productlike with a C—O bond distance of 1.6 A, and a bond order of 0.62. The bromonium ion bridging is unsymmetrical and fairly weak. The bond parameters for the intra- and intermolecular TSs are quite similar. 

These new derivatives were isolated in good yields (60-94%) as high boiling liquids and were fully characterized by NMR spectroscopy (1H, 13C, and 11B) and elemental analysis. The proton NMR of the starting material 1 shows a well-resolved multiplet and quintet for the trimethylene bridge. Upon monosubstitution, however, three complex multiplets are observed, indicative of the unsymmetrical structures of these derivatives. Also, the nonequivalence of the N-C carbon atoms is clearly apparent in the 13C NMR spectra of 2-4. 

The zinc complex of a 14-membered CA-N2S2 dibenzo macrocycle with two pendent pyridyl-methyl groups was studied (L = 8,ll-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)5,6,7,8,9,10,16,17-octahydro-diben-zo[e,m][l,4]dithia[8,ll]diazacyclotetradecine). In solution, [ZnL]2+ takes up atmospheric carbon dioxide and transforms to the dinuclear complex [(//-C03)(ZnL)2](C104)2. The structures of both complexes have been elucidated. The zinc atoms, which are situated outside the macrocyclic ring, are unsymmetrically bridged by the //-carbonato group.739... 

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