Carbonyl compounds, valence-shell

It also forms compounds known as carbonyls with many metals. The best known is nickel tetracarbonyl, Ni(CO)4, a volatile liquid, clearly covalent. Here, donation of two electrons by each carbon atom brings the nickel valency shell up to that of krypton (28 -E 4 x 2) the structure may be written Ni( <- 0=0)4. (The actual structure is more accurately represented as a resonance hybrid of Ni( <- 0=0)4 and Ni(=C=0)4 with the valency shell of nickel further expanded.) Nickel tetracarbonyl has a tetrahedral configuration,... 

In a similar vein, we observe nickel(O), possessing ten electrons in its valence shell, to require four carbonyl ligands to satisfy the eighteen electron rule and form [Ni(CO)4l, whilst chromium(O), with six electrons in its valence shell forms [Cr(CO)6]. These latter compounds are tetrahedral and octahedral respectively. 

The relationship between boranes and metal-carbonyl clusters can be extended by considering the compound Fe5(CO)i5C, which has the square-based pyramidal structure shown in Fig. 13, with the carbide carbon atom just below the center of the Fe square, clearly contributing all its valence shell electrons to the cluster 24). The metal-carbonyl residue FeB(CO)i4 formally left by removal of this carbon as has the nido structure appropriate for a cluster with 5 skeletal atoms and seven skeletal bond pairs. 

The highly covalent nature of transition metal carbonyls and their derivatives leads to the 18-electron rule being closely followed. The mononuclear species Ni(CO)4, Fe(CO)5, Ru(CO)5, Os(CO)5, Cr(CO)6, Mo(CO)6 and W(CO)6 obey this well and, if the formalized rules of electron counting are applied, so do the metal—metal bonded and carbonyl bridged species. Such compounds are therefore coordinately saturated and the normal (but by no means unique) mode of substitution is dissociative (a 16-electron valence shell being less difficult to achieve than one with 20 electrons).94... 

For binary metal carbonyl compounds, the 18-electron mle is a very useful concept. Stable metal complexes will be formed when the metal has 18 electrons in its valence shell (metal valence electrons -H 2 electrons from each CO ligand). Since Tc(0) has 7 valence electrons, the neutral monomeric species Tc(CO) cannot be stable, but ions like [Tc(CO)6]" or [Tc(CO)5] attain a total of 18 electrons. In the neutral molecule, it will dimerize to Tc2(CO)io in order to obey the 18-electron rule. The formation of a Tc-Tc bond adds an electron on each Tc atom. This 18-electron mle is quite useful to predict the stmctures of the metal binary carbonyl compounds. 

Although less fully documented than osmium cluster chemistry, rhenium cluster chemistry has been subjected to many structural studies, including those on approximately 20 neutral or anionic carbonyls, particularly carbonyl hydrides [Rev(CO). H ] of nuclearities x = 2 to 6 (Fig. 7). In addition, some ten or more rhenium carbonyl carbides [Rev(CO)vH C] have been shown to contain a core carbon atom, usually occupying a central octahedral site. These systems offer scope not only to explore for rhenium the trends we have already shown for osmium, but also to study the effect on metal-metal distances (and so enthalpies) of such core carbon atoms, which formally donate all four of their valence shell electrons to the cluster bonding. To our knowledge only one rhenium carbonyl cluster compound, Re2(CO)io, has been subjected to calorimetric study to determine its enthalpy of formation. ... 

One of the first variations of the Wittig reaction was initially reported by Homer and coworkers and rapidly followed by an initial report by Wadsworth and Emmons. These examples made use of phosphine oxide/phosphonate derivatives of the ylides first reported by Wittig and are now collectively known as the Homer-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction (HWE). Ylide formation occurs upon deprotonation of dialkoxy phosphonate 31 and alkene 32 is formed from carbonyl compound 30 with loss of the corresponding phosphate derivative 33. The use of this variation has advantages over the eonventional version a) phosphonate carbanions are known to be more nucleophilic due to decreased stabilization by valence shell expansion of the phosphorous atom, thus are able to react with a wider diversity of carbonyl compounds, b) the phosphorous-based product of the reaction, a water-soluble phosphate, allows for a greater ease of reaction work-up. c) the enhanced reactivity of the phosphonate permits direct derivitization of the reagent, d) the Arbuzov reaction allows for ready preparation of the desired phosphonate. 

On the descriptive side, previously known binary carbonyl cations are usually of the [M(C0)6] type with M = Mn, Tc or Re (82), The oxidation state of the metal in these or other ternary cations is 0 or +1, and the ionic charge of the complex does not exceed +1. In addition, far more basic anions are used as counter ions. The effective atomic number rule, which plays an important role in judging stability, structure and reactivity of transition-metal carbonyls, is not valid for the noble-metal carbonyl compounds reported so far. The silver(I) and gold(I) carbonyl derivatives have 14, and the Pt(II) carbonyls have 16 electrons in the metal valence shell. 

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