Cobalt formation reaction

Metal ion complexation rates have been studied by the T-jump method. ° Divalent nickel and cobalt have coordination numbers of 6, so they can form complexes ML with monodentate ligands L with n = 1—6 or with bidentate ligands, n = 1-3. The ligands are Bronsted bases, and only the conjugate base form undergoes coordination with the metal ion. The complex formation reaction is then... 

Hi) Cobalt formate. There is evidence that the kinetics of decomposition of cobalt formate [1026,1027] are similar to those of the nickel salt, considered in some detail below. A significant point of difference, however, is that metal production during reaction of the former is preceded by formation of cobalt oxides [1028]. 

As we have seen, an area of major importance and of considerable interest is that of substitution reactions of metal complexes in aqueous, nonaqueous and organized assemblies (particularly micellar systems). The accumulation of a great deal of data on substitution in nickel(II) and cobalt(II) in solution (9) has failed to shake the dissociative mechanism for substitution and for these the statement "The mechanisms of formation reactions of solvated metal cations have also been settled, the majority taking place by the Eigen-Wilkins interchange mechanism or by understandable variants of it" (10) seems appropriate. Required, however, are more data for substitution in the other... 

The liquid-phase oxidation of acrolein (AL), the reaction products, their routes of formation, reaction in the absence or presence of catalysts such as acetylacetonates (acac) and naphthenates (nap) of transition metals and the influence of reaction factors were discussed in an earlier paper (22). The coordinating state of cobalt acetylacetonate in the earlier stage of the reaction depends on the method of addition to the reaction system (25, 26). The catalyst, Co(acac)2-H20-acrolein, which was synthesized by mixing a solution of Co(acac)2 in benzene with a saturated aqueous solution, decreases the induction period of oxygen uptake and increases the rate of oxygen absorption. The acrolein of the catalyst coordinated with its cobalt through the lone pair of electrons of the aldehyde oxygen. Therefore, it is believed that the coordination of acrolein with a catalyst is necessary to initiate the oxidation reaction (10). 

Metal-Nitrogen Compounds The cobalt catalyzed reaction of primary and secondary amines with carbon monoxide leads to the formation of formamide derivatives. Dimethylamine, for example, gives iV,i T-dimethvlformamide in 60% yield (90, 91). Very likely cobalt-nitrogen compounds are intermediates which undergo a CO insertion and then reduction. The following mechanism has been suggested for the reaction (90). 

Formate esters of the various alcohols formed are observed as major products in these cobalt-catalyzed reactions, and the mole ratio of formates to alcohols remains constant throughout a reaction. This observation would be consistent with the occurrence of a rapid carbonylation equilibrium process,... 

A number of simple and inexpensive materials catalytically promote the cobalt-carbonylation (Reaction 2) in aqueous solution. These include ion-exchange resins, zeolites, or special types of activated carbon. Formation of the active catalyst in a separate reactor is thus economically feasible. The mechanism of this catalysis has not yet been elucidated and seems to differ for each promoter mentioned. After an induction period during which the cobalt fed to the reactor is partially retained by the promoter, fully active materials have absorbed cobalt carbonyl anion Co(CO)4 (ion exchange resins), Co2+ cation (zeolites), or a mixture of Co2+, cobalt carbonyl hydride, and cluster-type cobalt carbonyls (activated carbon). This can be shown by analytical studies (extraction, titration, and IR studies) of active material withdrawn from the reactor. 

Step 4 Decobaltation of the Reaction Product. The product of the hydroformylation reactor containing the catalyst as a mixture of cobalt carbonyl hydride and dicobalt octacarbonyl is fed to the decobaiting section. Mixing the product at 120 °C and 10 atm with a dilute formic acid/ cobalt formate solution in the presence of air decomposes the catalyst (Reaction 9) (12). 

The only claim for the production of a metallocarboxylic acid from the insertion of C02 into a metal-hydrogen bond in the opposite sense is based on the reaction of C02 with [HCo(N2)(PPh3)3] (108, 136). The metallocarboxylic acid is said to be implicated since treatment of the product in benzene solution with Mel followed by methanolic BF3 yielded a considerable amount of methyl acetate as well as methyl formate derived from the cobalt formate complex. Metallocarboxylic acid species formed by attack of H20 or OH- on a coordinated carbonyl are considered in the section on CO oxidation. 

The design of polydentate ligands containing imines has exercised many minds over many years, and imine formation is probably one of the commonest reactions in the synthetic co-ordination chemist s arsenal. Once again, the chelate effect plays an important role in stabilising the co-ordinated products and the majority of imine ligands contain other donor atoms that are also co-ordinated to the metal centre. The above brief discussion of imine formation will have shown that the formation of the imine from amine and carbonyl may be an intra- or intermolecular process. In many cases, the detailed mechanism of the imine formation reaction is not fully understood. In particular, it is not always clear whether the nucleophile is metal-co-ordinated amine or amide. Some intramolecular imine formation reactions at cobalt(m) are known to proceed through amido intermediates. A particularly useful intermediate (5.24) in metal-directed amino acid chemistry is... 

Reaction of Cytochrome cIinn with Bis(ferrozine)copper(II) Knowledge of the redox properties of cytochrome c was an encouragement to initiate a kinetics investigation of the reduction of an unusual copper(II) complex species by cyt c11. Ferrozine (5,6-bis(4-sulphonatophenyl)-3-(2-pyridyl)-1,2.4-triazine)286 (see Scheme 7.1), a ligand that had come to prominence as a sensitive spectrophotometric probe for the presence of aqua-Fe(II),19c,287 forms a bis complex with Cu(II) that is square pyramidal, with a water molecule in a fifth axial position, whereas the bis-ferrozine complex of Cu(I) is tetrahedral.286 These geometries are based primarily upon analysis of the UV/visible spectrum. Both complexes are anionic, as for the tris-oxalato complex of cobalt in reaction with cytochrome c (Section 7.3.3.4), the expectation is that the two partners will bind sufficiently strongly in the precursor complex to allow separation of the precursor formation constant from the electron transfer rate constant, from the empirical kinetic data. 

Noyori and colleagues investigated the ring opening of unsaturated mono- and bicyclic endoperoxides catalyzed by 5-10 mol% of Pd(PPh3)4 [226, 227]. Similarly to the cobalt-catalyzed reactions, (Z)-4-hydroxy enones resulted as the main products, which were accompanied by (Z)-2-ene-l, 4-diols and diepoxides. The latter are formed as the major products under either ruthenium or cobalt catalysis (see Part 2, Sects. 3.5 and 5.8). Both two-electron and radical mechanisms were considered for this transformation. Saturated bicyclic endoperoxides gave mixtures of cyclic 4-hydroxy ketones and 1,4-diols and their formation may be a result of a radical process [227, 228]. 

In the case of transition metal complex formation reactions, model systems are established and the patterns of reactivity can be discussed in terms of model systems. For example, cobalt(III) and platinum(II) do serve as paradigm for octahedral and square planar... 

Pulse radiolysis has been used to study the transient formation and decomposition of cobalt-alkyl bonds in aqueous solution in the same manner as it has been used for chromium alkyls. And as for chromium alkyls, bond homolysis is a major decomposition pathway (28). For bond formation reactions, pulse radiolysis shows that they are assisted by increases in pressure. This feature results from the homolysis having a larger activation volume than the bond formation reaction, resulting in a significantly negative overall reaction volume for the process (29). In general for all of these metal-alkyl bond homolysis reactions of the aquo complexes, steric hindrance facilitates the reaction. Ligand effects also play a role, but the factors involved are more subtle. 

Other reactions are alkane formation by hydrogenation, ketone formation (especially with ethylene ), ester formation through hydrogen transfer and formate ester synthesis. An improved catalyst system in which one CO ligand of CoH(CO)4 is substituted with a trialkylphosphine ligand , was disclosed by Shell workers in the early 1960s. With this catalyst, which is more thermally stable than the unsubstituted cobalt carbonyl, reaction proceeds at 140-190 C with 3-7 MPa of CO and Hj. Additionally, mostly linear aldehydes are obtained from linear terminal and internal olefins. This remarkable result arises from the high preference for the terminal addition to an a-olefin, and the isomerization of the olefinic position which occurs simultaneously with hydroformyiation. 

CoOx may affect the adsorption of CO or O2 on R. Since at low temperatures the reaction rate on R is determined by the slow adsorption of oxygen due to CO inhibition, it is most likely that CoO serves as 0-supplier for die reaction. No influence of cobalt oxide on the CO adsorption on R was detected by IR measurements. If we assume that R-Co alloy formation does not play an important role in the CO/O2 reaction over Pt/CoOx/SiQj, several models may account for flie observed effects. According to our first model, cobalt cations enhance the adsorption of O2 on R by an increased electron back-donation into the anti-bonding orbitds of O2, which facilitates O2 dissociation. The increased back donation may be induced by the electrical field of the cobalt cations. The second model is shown schematically in figure 4. CO is adsorbed on R. O2 dissociates on CoO and the dissociation may be assisted by the presence of O-vacancies present on cobalt oxide. COa on R will react with Oa on cobalt. This reaction will then take place at the interface between R and CoOx. It is also possible that Oa migrates fi"om tiie CoO to R, in which case the reaction proceeds on the R surface (third model). The authors are in favour of the last two models since R itself is already able to dissociate O2 around 100 K if fi ee R sites are available (no CO inhibition) [33]. 

We have rewritten Equation 8 as cobalt-carbon bond formation and expressed it as the sum of a constant energy process (W), an adduct dissociation reaction and an adduct formation reaction to produce the desired reaction, Equation 13. Steps 11 and 12 are the type reaction treated by ECW leading respectively to Equations 14 and 15. 

Cobalt(II) (F).— The reaction of cobalt(ii) with pan (5) is slightly slower than that with par (6), allegedly owing to the greater bulk of the pan ligand. Several complex formation reactions show complicated kinetic patterns due to parallel redox processes. This is true for the cobalt(ii) reactions mentioned above ... 

Sulfiir dioxide or other suitable reductant may be added to assist with leaching of manganese minerals, which are generally higher in cobalt. This reaction, which is represented by equation 2 also suppresses chromium(VI) formation, ensuring downstream processes are not affected. 

Miscellaneous Metal Ions.—Mention has been made already of a relatively slow formation reaction for the normally labile manganese(ii) ion. Incorporations of the labile bivalent metal ions zinc(ii), copper(ii), manganese(n), cobalt(ii), and nickel(n) into water-soluble porphyrin molecules such as tetrakis-(4-N-methyI-pyridyl)porphine, tetrasulphonated tetraphenylporphine, and uroporphine are also relatively slow reactions. However, by taking into account the porphyrin deformation which is necessary, an Id mechanism can be fitted to these reactions. The rates of formation and dissociation of nickel(ii), copper(n), cobalt(ii), and zinc(ii) complexes of the sterically hindered ligand 1,4,8,11-tetramethyl-1,4,8,11-tetra-azacyclotetra-decane (Meicyclam) are also 10 —10 smaller than is normal for these metal ions. ... 

Cobalt.— Formation of the cobaloximes (1) via the reactions in Scheme 6 proceeds... 

The reaction of olefins and their functional derivatives with carbon monoxide and alcohols to saturated carboxylic add esters generally proceeds at a lower velocity than the formation of the free acids as illustrated in the last chapter [504]. In the presence of nickel halogenide catalysts, reaction temperatures between 180-200 °C and pressures from 100 to 200 atm are required. Yields are in the range of 90 %. With cobalt catalysts reaction temperatures between 140 to 170 °C are recommended [505]. 

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