Chromium complex compounds cations, with

Direct Dyes. These water-soluble anionic dyes, when dyed from aqueous solution in the presence of electrolytes, are substantive to, i.e., have high affinity for, cellu-losic fibers. Their principal use is the dyeing of cotton and regenerated cellulose, paper, leather, and, to a lesser extent, nylon. Most of the dyes in this class are polyazo compounds, along with some stilbenes, phthalocyanines, and oxazines. Aftertreatments, frequently applied to the dyed material to improve washfastness properties, include chelation with salts of metals (usually copper or chromium), and treatment with formaldehyde or a cationic dye-complexing resin. 

Apart from the di- and oligoolefm iron tricarbonyl complexes, which nowadays are frequently used in organic synthesis [71, 72], the chemistry of the readily accessible cyclohepatriene chromium and molybdenum tricarbonyls 2 and 3 was the focus of intense research efforts as well. Only a few months after the synthesis of 2 and 3 was published [58,59], both Hyp Dauben and Peter Pauson reported that these compounds react with triphenylmethyl tetrafluoro-borate in methylene chloride to give the tropylium complexes 4 and 5 in excellent yield (Scheme 7.1) [73, 74]. Later this method of hydride abstraction was also used for the preparation of the tropylium cation itself and subsequently led to the generation of several cationic rc-complexes of iron, manganese and cobalt [71, 72], The reactions of the cations of 4 and 5 with nucleophilic... 

The Amberlyst A-26 resin consists of a complex hydrocarbon network with cationic ammonium ion appendages that serve as counterions to the anionic chromium oxidant, HCr04". Heating the insoluble polymeric reagent with an alcohol results in oxidation to a carbonyl compound, with formation of an insoluble Cr by-product. Not only can the metal by-product be removed by filtration without added solvent, it can also be regenerated and reused in a subsequent reaction. 

Bisbenzene chromium reacts with good 77-acceptor Lewis acids to form complexes (CgHg)2Cr L" (L = tetracyanoethylene, trinitrobenzene, -quinone, chloranil) in which electron transfer from the (CgHg)2Cr to the Lewis acid has taken place. The complexes are best described as bisbenzene chromium cation salts of radical anions (765). The crystal structure of one such compound [(MeCgHg)2Cr] (TCNQ) (TCNQ = 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane) has been determined and consists of Stacks of TCNQ anions and bisbenzene chromium cations with interplanar spacings of 3.42 A (577). 

It is well known that the tricarbonylchromium-complexed benzylic anions and cations are stabilized due to overlapping between d-orbital of the chromium and p-orbital of the benzylic carbon [1]. Tricarbonylchromium complexes of a-te-tralone and a-indanone having a carbonyl group at the side chain underwent a deprotonation of the exo-benzylic protons by treatment with base to give the stereo-controlled tricyclic compounds (Eqs. 1 and 2) [2]. In these cases, Robinson annulation products were formed in less than 10% yield. Also, base treatment of benzyl ether chromium complex having a chlorine at the side chain 3 gave cyclization product as a diastereomeric mixture (Eq. 3) [3]. 

The preparation of some optically active tris(dithiocarbamato)chromium(iii) complexes is described on p. 101. The synthesis of the first dithio-acetylacetonato-complex of a Group VI transition metal (55) has been achieved by the reduction of the 3,5-dimethyl-l,2-dithiolinium cation with chromium(ii). This dark-green compound consists of discrete molecules which undergo a... 

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