Cluster Chelates

The compounds described are useful materials for the study of the chemical and spectroscopic behavior of trinuclear Mo-S-clusters. 

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A 250-mL two-necked, round-bottomed flask fitted with an argon-inlet tube and a reflux condenser with a silicone oil bubbler is charged with Mo(CO)6 (S.3 g, 0.02 mole), dithiobisfdiethylphosphine sulfide)5 (18.4 g, 0.06 mole), 70 mL of toluene (dried by distillation from P4OI0), and a magnetic stirring bar coated with Teflon. 

I Caution. Metal carbonyl compounds are toxic chemicals and should be handled with care in a hood. Carbon monoxide is evolved in the reaction, so that preparation, too, must be carried out in an efficient hood. 

The compound is stable toward air and moisture and is soluble in benzene, toluene, chloroform, and dichloromethane. On heating, the bright, black, diamagnetic crystals begin to decompose at about 195°. The structure of the complex has been established by a single-crystal X-ray determination.4 Its FD mass spectrum shows [M]+ at m/z 1034 (ref. to 98Mo32S). The 31P( H) spectrum of the 

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An alternative to the formation of neutral metal chelates for solvent extraction is that in which the species of analytical interest associates with oppositely charged ions to form a neutral extractable species.6 Such complexes may form clusters with increasing concentration which are larger than just simple ion pairs, particularly in organic solvents of low dielectric constant. The following types of ion association complexes may be recognised. 

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Non-ionic thiourea derivatives have been used as ligands for metal complexes [63,64] as well as anionic thioureas and, in both cases, coordination in metal clusters has also been described [65,66]. Examples of mononuclear complexes of simple alkyl- or aryl-substituted thiourea monoanions, containing N,S-chelating ligands (Scheme 11), have been reported for rhodium(III) [67,68], iridium and many other transition metals, such as chromium(III), technetium(III), rhenium(V), aluminium, ruthenium, osmium, platinum [69] and palladium [70]. Many complexes with N,S-chelating monothioureas were prepared with two triphenylphosphines as substituents. 

The different classes of Ru-based catalysts, including crystalline Chevrel-phase chalcogenides, nanostructured Ru, and Ru-Se clusters, and also Ru-N chelate compounds (RuNj), have been reviewed recently by Lee and Popov [29] in terms of the activity and selectivity toward the four-electron oxygen reduction to water. The conclusion was drawn that selenium is a critical element controlling the catalytic properties of Ru clusters as it directly modifies the electronic structure of the catalytic reaction center and increases the resistance to electrochemical oxidation of interfacial Ru atoms in acidic environments. 

Mixed O, N donor molecules are truly extensive and structurally diverse, and only a few selected examples will be presented. In line with other 2-substituted pyridine analogs reported in this chapter, it is worthwhile noting the chemistry of 2-pyridone (or 2-hydroxypyridine, Hopy), which can form O-bonded monodentate complexes such as Co(Hopy)4(N03)2, but as the monoanion is an effective chelate ligand, forming Co(opy)2 and Co(bpy)(opy)2 compounds.454 An unusual solid state melt reaction with Co(OAc)2 yields the dodecanuclear cluster Co12 (OH)6(OAc)6(opy )12.455... 

Thiolates (RS ) represent an extensive family of ligands, and include chelating forms. Thiolates are known to act as monodentate donors, but often act in a bridging role. There is a clear biological interest, through participation of thiolates (cysteine residues) as donors in many metalloproteins both as terminal S donors and bridging ligands in, for example, Fe S clusters. 

Chelation of ixo-maleonitriledithiolate (imdt) has been structurally characterized in the octahedral cobalt(III) complex trmw-[Co(imdt)2(P(ra-Bu)3)2], formed via reaction of cobalt(II) ion with K2(imdt) in the presence of the phosphine.1037 Simple chelating thiolates such as SCH2CH2S not only form mononuclear compounds, but participate in bridging in clusters such as [Co3(SCH2CH2S)3(PEt3)3]3+ (243).1038... 

The N,S-chelate 2-aminoethanethiolate (aet-) forms stable cobalt(III) complexes, including clusters where the S can take on a bridging role. Reaction of [Co(NH3)5C1]2+ with Ni(aet)2 in water for several hours affords the black tetranuclear compound Co4(aet)8, which features act in simple chelate and bridging roles (245).1083 The simple monomeric complex [Co(aet)2(en)]+ has been reported 1084 when heated in water at 50 °C, the trimer Co Co(aet)3 2 is one product, with the central Co surrounded by six bridging S atoms. 

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