Cobalt complexes with protons

The importance of reactions of cobalt(I) complexes with proton donors in the context of understanding the photo- and electrocatalytic reduction of water to H2 and of carbon dioxide to HCO2 has been highlighted. [146] In a series of reports the thermodynamics and kinetics of proton binding to the cobalt(I) complex of the macrocycle, 5,7,7,12,14,14,-hexamethyl-... 

Many carbonyl and carbonyl metallate complexes of the second and third row, in low oxidation states, are basic in nature and, for this reason, adequate intermediates for the formation of metal— metal bonds of a donor-acceptor nature. Furthermore, the structural similarity and isolobal relationship between the proton and group 11 cations has lead to the synthesis of a high number of cluster complexes with silver—metal bonds.1534"1535 Thus, silver(I) binds to ruthenium,15 1556 osmium,1557-1560 rhodium,1561,1562 iron,1563-1572 cobalt,1573 chromium, molybdenum, or tungsten,1574-1576 rhe-nium, niobium or tantalum, or nickel. Some examples are shown in Figure 17. 

The sorption processes for cobalt complexes can be complicated by hydrolysis reactions of the complex in solution, surface induced ligand loss processes, sorption of hydrolysis products of either amine, protonated amine, or mixed amine/aquo cobalt complexes, and oxidation/reduction processes associated with cobalt. The principal objective of the XPS studies was to evaluate, the chemical state of cobalt and amine ligands, the surface concentration of the respective elements, and the ligand to cobalt ratio as indicated by the surface nitrogen to cobalt atomic ratio. 

The carbon dioxide anion-radical was used for one-electron reductions of nitrobenzene diazo-nium cations, nitrobenzene itself, quinones, aliphatic nitro compounds, acetaldehyde, acetone and other carbonyl compounds, maleimide, riboflavin, and certain dyes (Morkovnik and Okhlobystin 1979). The double bonds in maleate and fumarate are reduced by CO2. The reduced products, on being protonated, give rise to succinate (Schutz and Meyerstein 2006). The carbon dioxide anion-radical reduces organic complexes of Co and Ru into appropriate complexes of the metals(II) (Morkovnik and Okhlobystin 1979). In particular, after the electron transfer from this anion radical to the pentammino-p-nitrobenzoato-cobalt(III) complex, the Co(III) complex with thep-nitrophenyl anion-radical fragment is initially formed. The intermediate complex transforms into the final Co(II) complex with the p-nitrobenzoate ligand. 

A study74 of cobalt complex formation by a series of related o,o -diaminodiarylazo compounds showed that, in marked contrast to the l-(2-hydroxyphenylazo)-2-naphthylamine (62d), l-(2-aminophenylazo)-2-naphthylamine (63) reacted with cobalt(II) chloride to give a 2 1 cobalt(III) complex (64) in which only one proton had been lost from each ligand molecule. This observation led to the proposal that proton loss occurred from the iminohydrazone form of the ligand rather than from a primary amino group. 

A number of studies have also been made of the hydrolysis of nitriles in the coordination sphere of cobalt(III). Pinnell et al.3 4 found that benzonitrile and 3- and 4-cyanophenol coordinated to pentaamminecobalt(III) are hydrolyzed in basic solution to the corresponding N-bonded carboxamide (equation 22). The reaction is first order in hydroxide ion and first order in the complex with koH= 18.8M 1s 1 at 25.6 °C for the benzonitrile derivative. As fc0H for the base hydrolysis of benzonitrile is 8.2 x 10-6 M-1 s at 25.6 °C, the rate acceleration is ca. 2.3 x 106-fold. The product of hydrolysis is converted to [(NH3)5CoNH2COPh]3+ in acidic solution and the pJC of the protonated complex is 1.65 at 25 °C. Similar effects have been observed with aliphatic nitriles.315 Thus, base hydrolysis of acetonitrile to acetamide is promoted by a factor of 2 x 106 on coordination to [Co(NH3)5]3+. 

There is a certain analogy between the aromatic anions of cyclopentadienide (C5H5 ) and boratabenzene (C5H6B ). l-Methylbora-2,5-cyclohexadienehas a more acidic proton connected to the, sp3-hybridized ring carbon atom than cyclopentadi-ene, due to the same tendency of aromatic anion formation [252, 253]. The related 1-phenyl-1,4-dihydroborabenzene affords the lithium salt of 1-phenylborataben-zene on treatment with tert-butyllithium. Like metallic complexes such as ferrocene formed by cyclopentadiene, boratabenzene also forms such sandwich -complexes with iron and cobalt. The iron complex can be acetylated under Friedel-Crafts conditions. 

It is not necessary to start with the protonated Fe(II) complex to isolate these substituted products, however. Reaction of a slurry of the unsubstituted Fe(III) complex with anhydrous HC1 in diethyl sulfide produced a mixture of substitution products, including the species shown in Eq. (12). Although no evidence has been found for a protonated cobalt metallo-carborane analog, boron-substituted complexes of cobalt (III) may also be obtained by reaction of the (1,2-C2B9Hn)2Co- ion with R2S and HC1 52). 

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