Cobalt salts, divalent

Tetrammino-salts arc also known in which a divalent acidic radicle takes the place of two monovalent acidic radicles in the diacido-tetram-mino-series, giving rise to efs-compounds such as the earbonato-tetram-mino- and the oxalato-tctrammino-cobaltic salts. 

Ammino-derivatives op Cobalt Salts—Cobaltous Salt Ammines—Cobaltic Salt Ammines—Mononuclear Cobalt-ammines containing One Atom of Cobalt in the Molecule—Cobaltic Salts with Trivalent Cation—Cobalt-ammines Containing Divalent Cation—Cobalt-ammines containing Monovalent Cation—Cobalt-ammines consisting of Non-dissociable Complex— Cobalt-ammines containing Monovalent Anion—Cobalt Salts containing Trivalent Anion—Polynuclear Cobalt-ammines containing Two or more Cobalt Atoms in the Molecule—Cobalt-ammines of Unknown Constitution— Ionisation Metamerism—Polymerisation Isomerism—Valency Isomerism —Co-ordination Position Isomerism—Isomerism due to Asymmetric Cobalt Atoms. 

In the classical oxo process the catalyst cohalt carbonyl is formed in situ by introducing divalent cobalt into the reactor. High temperature is required for this catalyst formation that gives a mixture of aldehydes and alcohols containing only 60-70% of linear product. A new BASF process using cobalt carbonyl hydride shows improved selectivity and efficient catalyst recovery. The catalyst is prepared by passing an aqueous solution of cobalt salt over a promoter and extracting the catalyst from the water phase with olefin. 

The more important simple derivatives of cobalt are divalent, the metal only yielding stable trivalent salts in conjunction with other metallic derivatives, as, for example, the cobalti-nitrites and eobalii-cyanides, or in the complex ammino derivatives. Rhodium and iridium function almost exclusively as trivalent metals in their salts. 

General Properties of Compounds of Cobalt.—Cobalt, in its salts, behaves both as a trivalent and a divalent element, although the trivalent salts are unstable except in the case of double salts. The colour of cobalt salts varies greatly according to the degree of hydration, but it is usually pink or blue. Cobalt salts absorb nitric oxide,1 and with ammonia readily yield complex ammino derivatives. 

Even from the time of the early work by Brdi6ka [100] it has been known that addition of cysteine or proteins to a solution of a divalent cobalt salt leads to a shift of the reduction wave of Co (II) towards positive potentials and to the appearance, following the reduction of the cobalt, of a hump-shaped catalytic hydrogen wave however, the nature and mechanism of the processes causing these effects have not yet been finally established. It is known that both the above-mentioned phenomena are connected with the formation of... 

Despite the above similarities, many differences between the members of this triad are also to be noted. Reduction of a trivalent compound, which yields a divalent compound in the case of cobalt, rarely does so for the heavier elements where the metal, univalent compounds, or hydrido complexes are the more usual products. Rhodium forms the quite stable, yellow [Rh(H20)6] " ion when hydrous Rh203 is dissolved in mineral acid, and it occurs in the solid state in salts such as the perchlorate, sulfate and alums. [Ir(H20)6] + is less readily obtained but has been shown to occur in solutions of in cone HCIO4. 

Poly(dG-dC) poly(dG-dC) and its methylated analogue structures assume left-handed conformation (Z-DNA) in high molar sodium salt (Na", K" ), in low molar divalent cations (Ca", Mg", Ni ), micromolar concentrations of hexaamine cobalt chloride (Co(NH3)6)Cl3 and in millimolar concentrations of polyamines. In order to analyse the binding of berberine to Z-form DNA, Kumar et al. [186] reported that the Z-DNA structure of poly(dG-dC) poly(dG-dC) prepared in either a high salt concentration (4.0 M) or in 40 mM (Co(NH3)6)Cl3 remained invariant in the presence of berberine up to a nucleotide phosphate/alkaloid molar ratio of 0.8 and suggested that berberine neither bormd to Z-form DNA nor converted the Z-DNA to the... 

Triphenylformazan behaves as a bidentate ligand forming 2 1 complexes (217) with divalent copper, nickel, and cobalt.377 Formazan metal complexes can be compared to complexes of azo dyes or beta diketones due to structural similarity.301,302 In general, formazan metal complexes have low stability toward acids. However, when electron-donating substituents are added to the aromatic ring, a considerable enhancement in stability is observed. Cationic complexes of type 218 are also known. The complexation of formazan with metal cation can be accompanied by oxidation to the tetrazolium salt and the formation of a complex... 

Until recently, the hydroformylation using palladium had been scarcely explored as the activity of palladium stayed behind that of more active platinum complexes. The initiating reagents are often very similar to those of platinum, i.e., divalent palladium salts, which under the reaction conditions presumably form monohydrido complexes of palladium(II). A common precursor is (39). The mechanism for palladium catalysts is, therefore, thought to be the same as that for platinum. New cationic complexes of palladium that are highly active as hydroformylation catalysts were discovered by Drent and co-workers at Shell and commercial applications may be expected, involving replacement of cobalt catalysts. 

The perchlorate salts of the complexes with divalent cobalt, nickel, and particularly iron (analogous to IV, p. S-15) are potentially explosive, and storage for more than 4 weeks is not advised. 

The valency of the complex radicle is the same as that of the central metallic atom when the complex contains only ammonia, substituted ammonia, water, or other neutral group. For example, cobalt in eobaltie. salts is trivalent, and the cobalt complex with ammonia, Co(NI13)8 ", is likewise trivalent copper in cupric sulphate is divalent, and the copper complex, [Cu(NH3)4] , is also divalent. In the same wn.y [Co(NH3)5.H30] " and [Co(NII3)4.(II20)2] " are trivalent, as also [Co(NH3)2.en2]" and [Co.en3] ", where en represents cthyleucdiamine, CH NH2... 

The trinitro-triammine cobalt has practically no conductivity.3 Werner s theory is further supported by the fact that by the introduction of a fourth molecule of ammonia into the triacido-triammine compound the solution becomes once more conducting, as one (N02) group is displaced from the co-ordination complex. The eobalt-ammino-compounds, therefore, containing fewer than three ammino-radicles, contain non-ionisable acidic radicle, and those containing more than three contain ionisable acidic radicles. The generalisation made in connection with the triammino-eompounds led, therefore, to the establishment of the constitution of other ammino-derivatives, and also to the constitution of some of the ammino-salts of divalent and tetravalent metals. 

The formation of the triammino-salt indicates that two of the cobalt atoms are united with three molecules of ammonia, and the evolution of chlorine shows that one cobalt atom has been reduced from trivalent to divalent state. The reaction may be represented thus ... 

In these the metal is divalent, tetravalent, and trivalent respectively. The ammino-iridous and the ammino-iridic salts correspond to the ammino-derivatives of palladium and platinum, whilst those of the sesqui-salts are analogous to the ammino-derivatives of cobalt, chromium, and rhodium. 

Platinum forms both platinous and platinie salts, in which the metal is divalent and tetravalent respectively. Both series of salts are capable of uniting with ammonia, forming complex ammines. The co-ordination number in the platinous series is four and in the platinie series six. The latter series correspond in many respects to the chromic and cobaltic ammino-salts, but as the metal is tetravalent, the maximum number of radicles outside the complex is four instead of three. Also, the ammino-bases from which the salts are derived are much more stable than those of chromium or cobalt. 

Metallization. Bident ate formazans that are insoluble in water can be warmed with cobalt, nickel, and copper salts (preferably acetates) to form metal chelates in solvents such as methanol, ethanol, acetone, and dimethylformamide. Metal complexes of tri- and tetradentate formazans are much more stable. Metallization with divalent salts occurs rapidly at room temperature. On reaction with diazo-tized 2-aminophenols or 2-aminonaphthols, coupling and metallization with divalent metal salts can take place concurrently under the same conditions. When coupling is complete, the dye is usually fully metallized. 

Among the electrochemical syntheses related to the change of metal oxidation number, we emphasize obtaining acetylacetonates of divalent iron, cobalt, and nickel [551,623]. The method of alternating-current electrochemical synthesis was applied to isolate Ji-complexes of monovalent copper with allylamines, allylimines, and ally-lurea from the salts of divalent copper [624-628], We note that the same method was used for preparation of analogous ji-complexes with copper(II) halides (X = Cl, Br) [629a]. Other electrochemical syntheses with participation of metal salts and complexes are described in monographs [201,202] and literature cited therein. 

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