Cationic complexes, coordinative

Silver(II) Compounds. Sdver(II) is stabilized by coordination with nitrogen heterocychc bases, such as pyridine and dipyridyl. These cationic complexes are prepared by the peroxysulfate oxidation of silver(I) solutions in the presence of an excess of the ligand. An extensive review of the higher oxidation states of silver has beenpubhshed (21). 

Certain metal cations are capable of electrophilic attack on alkenes. Addition is completed when a nucleophile adds to the alkene-cation complex. The nucleophile may be the solvent or a ligand from the metal ion s coordination sphere. 

LCo(H20)6] ion, and bidentate /V-donor ligands such as cn, bipy and phen form octahedral cationic complexes [Co(L-L)3] , which are much more stable to oxidation than is the hexaammine [Co(NH3)6l . Acac yields the orange [Co(acac)2(H20)2] which has the tram octahedral structure and can be dehydrated to [Co(acac)2l which attains octahedral coordination by forming the tetrameric species shown in Fig. 26.3. This is comparable with the trimeric [Ni(acac>2]3 (p. 1157), like which it shows evidence of weak ferromagnetic interactions at very low temperatures. fCo(edta)(H20)] is ostensibly analogous to the 7-coordinate Mn and complexes with the same stoichiometry, but in fact the cobalt is only 6-coordinate, 1 of the oxygen atoms of the cdta being too far away from the cobalt (272 compared to 223 pm for the other edta donor atoms) to be considered as coordinated. 

The Ti -coordinated Mn(CO)3 cationic complexes of thiophenes follow mainly from the direct interaction of a heterocyclic ligand with Mn(CO)5X (81HCA1288). The first successful synthesis of 79 (R = = H = Me, R = R" =... 

Reaction between [W(RC=C)Cl(CO)2(py)2] (R = Ph, Me) with the anionic chelating Schiff base pyrrole-2-carboxaldehyde methylimine yields the cationic complexes [NEt4][W(RCCO)(NN)2(CO)] (where NN is the dianion of the pyrrole ligand). These complexes react with methyltriflate, forming the neutral acetylenic complexes [W(NN)2(CO)(RC=COMe)] (87OM1503). One of the pyrrolic Schiff bases is coordinated via the pyrrole and imino nitrogen atoms, and another one only via the imino nitrogen atom. 

The N-coordinated compound [AuCljL] (L= l-ethyl-2-phenylimidazole) with silver tetrafluoroborate gives the cycloaurated species 102, which on further reaction with triphenylphosphine and sodium tetrafluoroborate or ammonium hexafluorophosphate forms the cationic complexes 103 (X = BF., PF,) (00JCS(D)271). 

Finally, an example of an x-ray structure of a cationic complex shall be mentioned. From the data for 12, a surprisingly weak coordination (Si —N 1.932(8) A [146, 147]) of the acetonitrile donor to the silicon is inferred. The deviation from a pure tetrahedral geometry at the silicon is the largest yet observed (Table 4). 

A theoretical basis for the description of the cationic complex [Cp Ru(PR3)2 = = SiR2]+ can also be given. For a d6 CpML2 system, a complete splitting of the three orbitals (octahedral symmetry) is to be expected. Consequently, a coordinated silylene ligand (without any base) should prefer the indicated (Fig. 10) conformation. 

The reaction of the coordinatively unsaturated ruthenium amidinates with [Cp RuCl]4 tetramer or [CpRufMeCNlsJPFg provides access to novel amidinate-bridged dinuclear ruthenium complexes (Scheme 146), which in turn can be transformed into cationic complexes or hydride derivatives. In these complexes, a bridging amidinate ligand perpendicular to the metal-metal axis effectively stabilizes the highly reactive cationic diruthenium species. 

The compound 70 has also been reported showing the ambident character (both C- and N-coordination) of the cyano-stabilized ylide as ligand. The authors have also transposed their work concerning the keto-bis-ylide and palladium, with the synthesis of the C-bonded complex 71 or the new cycloplatinated or-thometallated compound 72. The latter by various treatments allows one to obtain other ylidic cationic complexes of platinum such as 73. A C,C,C-terdentate coordination of the keto bis-ylide, already observed with the palladium is also obtained from the reaction of 73 with gold derivatives. 

X-ray crystallography and variable temperature H NMR studies show that the conformation of the coordinated imidazolidin-2-ylidene, in both the neutral and cationic complexes 70, is anti, anti with respect to the Ph of the backbone of the NHC, exclusively in the solid state and predominantly in solution at lower temperatures (-75°C). At room temperature in solution, possible conformer interconversion by the rotation around the phenyl-N bond of the NHC substituent is apparent from the broadness of the peaks in the NMR spectra. Hydrosilylation of acetophenone by Ph SiH catalysed by 70 at room temperature or at -20°C results in maximum ee of 58%. However, at lower temperatures the reaction rates are much slower [55]. 

Iron(III) complexes of 2-acetylpyridine Af-oxide iV-methyl- and 3-azabicyclo[3.2.2.]nonylthiosemicarbazone, 24 and 25, respectively, have been isolated from both iron(III) perchlorate and chloride [117], The perchlorate salt yields low spin, octahedral, monovalent, cationic complexes involving two deprotonated, tridentate thiosemicarbazone ligands coordinated via the N-oxide oxygen, azomethine nitrogen and thiol sulfur based on infrared spectral studies. Their powder ESR g-values are included in Table 1 and indicate that bonding is less covalent than for the analogous thiosemicarbazones prepared from 2-acetylpyridine, 3a and 4. Starting with iron (III) chloride, compounds with the same cations, but with tetrachloroferrate(III) anions, were isolated. 

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