Complexes, slowly labile

Category 2 includes the moderately strong cyanide complexes Ni(CN)42 (log B4=31.3) and Cu(CN)43 (log B4=30.3). Although these complexes are labile, they are retained on the column and slowly dissociate during the chromatography. This slow... 

Microsomal reduction of chromium(VI) can also result in the formation of chromium(V), which involves a one-electron transfer from the microsomal electron-transport cytochrome P450 system in rats. The chromium(V) complexes are characterized as labile and reactive. These chromium(V) intermediates persist for 1 hour in vitro, making them likely to interact with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which may eventually lead to cancer (Jennette 1982). Because chromium(V) complexes are labile and reactive, detection of chromium(V) after in vivo exposure to chromium(VI) was difficult in the past. More recently, Liu et al. (1994) have demonstrated that chromium(V) is formed in vivo by using low-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy on whole mice. In mice injected with sodium dichromate(VI) intravenously into the tail vein, maximum levels of chromium(V) were detected within 10 minutes and declined slowly with a life time of about 37 minutes. The time to reach peak in vivo levels of chromium(V) decreased in a linear manner as the administered dose levels of sodium... 

Stability constants are not always the best predictive tool for measuring the ease and the extent of chemical reactions involving complexes nor their stability with time, because their kinetic behavior can often be even more crucial. For example, when ligand exchange reactions of ML (e.g., [FeEDTA]) with other metal ions (e.g., Zn2+ or Ca2+) are ki-netically slow, they do not significantly influence ligand speciation. Another typical example of the thermodynamics vs kinetics competition is the fact that the degradability of some metal complexes (e.g., metal-NTA) is related to their kinetic lability, rather than to their thermodynamic stability constants. Kinetic rather than thermodynamic data are then used to classify metal complexes as labile, quasi-labile, slowly labile, and inert (or stable). See Section 3.2.6. 

Nowotny and co-workers prepared polystyrene-immobilized complex 309. The supported complex is labile under typical Heck conditions, the active catalyst being transferred to solution. When the reaction is run at 140 °C, the kinetics are sigmoidal, showing that the active species slowly builds up in solution, and then decomposes. In addition, on the second recycle, all activity is in solution, probably as colloidal Pd(0) and no activity is left within the polymer support. This is consistent with 308 and other supported palladacycles being simply a slow source of active colloidal palladium particles. 

A surprising exception has been reported with evidence for a cleavage reaction in the case of divinyl sulphone. In non-aqueous and slightly acidic media, the behaviour of a., ji-unsaturated aromatic sulphones is also complex (see Table 7) since the cleavage and the saturation may compete. Strongly electrophilic double bonds undergo Michael additions in aprotic solvents by slowly protonated anions. Transfer of labile hydrogen may also lead to unactivated bases. It is noteworthy that in numerous cases (Table 6) the saturation is the preferred route. 

This account is concerned with the rate and mechanism of the important group of reactions involving metal complex formation. Since the bulk of the studies have been performed in aqueous solution, the reaction will generally refer, specifically, to the replacement of water in the coordination sphere of the metal ion, usually octahedral, by another ligand. The participation of outer sphere complexes (ion pair formation) as intermediates in the formation of inner sphere complexes has been considered for some time (122). Thermodynamic, and kinetic studies of the slowly reacting cobalt(III) and chromium(III) complexes (45, 122) indicate active participation of outer sphere complexes. However, the role of outer sphere complexes in the reactions of labile metal complexes and their general importance in complex formation (33, 34, 41, 111) had to await modern techniques for the study of very rapid reactions. Little evidence has appeared so far for direct participation of the... 

Complexes of (( Ir(III) are kinetically inert and undergo octahedral substitution reactions slowly. The rate constant for aquation of [IrBr(NH3)5]2+ [35884-02-7] at 298 K has been measured at -2 x 10-10 s-1 (168). In many cases, addition of a catalytic reducing agent such as hypophosphorous acid greatly accelerates the rate of substitution via a transient, labile Ir(H) species (169). Optical isomers can frequently be resolved, as is the case of ot-[IrCl2(en)2]+ [15444-47-0] (170). Ir(III) amine complexes are photoactive and undeigo rapid photosubstitution reactions (171). Other iridium complexes... 

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