Complexes with vanadium compounds

Dienyl carbonyl compounds, reductive cyclization, 10, 522 Dienyl complexes, with vanadium, 5, 49... 

A suitable homogeneous catalyst can be prepared by reacting five moles of diethylaluminum chloride with one mole of vanadium tetrachloride-anisole complex (V/CtHsO =r 1) at —78°C in toluene. Since the catalyst is thermally unstable at room temperature, the best results are obtained at very low temperatures. Electron spin resonance data suggested that the active species involves RVCI2 complexed with organoaluminum compounds (Natta et al., 1965). 

Organometallic compounds apart, oxidation states below - -2 are best represented by complexes with tris-bidentate nitrogen-donor ligands such as 2,2 -bipyridyl. Reduction by LiAlH4 in thf yields tris(bipyridyl) complexes in which the formal oxidation state of vanadium is -1-2 to —1. Magnetic moments are compatible with low-spin configurations of the metal but. 

VO(acac)2 < VO(Et-acac)2 VO(Me-acac)2 BMOV. Conversion rates for all hydrolysis products were faster than for the original species. Both EPR and visible spectroscopic studies of solutions prepared for administration to diabetic rats ocumented both a salt effect on the species formed and formation of a new halogen-containing complex. The authors concluded that vanadium compound efficacy with respect to long-term lowering of plasma glucose levels in diabetic rats traced the concentration of the hydrolysis product in the administration solution. 

Insertions of isocyanide into niobium-carbon bonds follow a path similar to that with vanadium, resulting in the formation of the 7]2-iminoacyl complexes, which can then be involved in further chemistry.175 176 The reaction of acetone with cyclopentadienyl complex 110 under a carbon monoxide atmosphere gives the if -acetone compound 111. Complex 111 subsequently undergoes either stepwise insertion of two isocyanides via 112 or double insertion of the isocyanide to give complex 113 (Scheme 48).177... 

Other transition-metal oxidants can convert alkenes to epoxides. The most useful procedures involve /-butyl hydroperoxide as the stoichiometric oxidant in combination with vanadium, molybdenum, or titanium compounds. The most reliable substrates for oxidation are allylic alcohols. The hydroxyl group of the alcohol plays both an activating and a stereodirecting role in these reactions. /-Butyl hydroperoxide and a catalytic amount of VO(acac)2 convert allylic alcohols to the corresponding epoxides in good yields.44 The reaction proceeds through a complex in which the allylic alcohol is coordinated to... 

Reports have appeared claiming that triperoxo vanadates behave as nucleophilic oxidants. In particular, triperoxo vanadium complexes, A[V(02)3]3H20 (A=Na or K), are proposed as efficient oxidants of a,-unsaturated ketones to the corresponding epoxide, benzonitrile to benzamide and benzil to benzoic acid, reactions which are usually carried out with alkaline hydrogen peroxide. Subsequent studies concerning the oxidation of cyclobutanone to 4-hydroxybutanoic acid, carried out with the above-cited triperoxo vanadium compound, in alcohol/water mixtures, clearly indicated that such a complex does not act as nucleophilic oxidant, but only as a source of HOO anion. 

Tetrahedral blue-black compounds [VL4](SCN)3 (L = en or Me4en) were prepared188 from K3[V(NCS)6] and their electronic spectra are comparable to other tetrahedral vanadium(III) complexes with substituted pyridines (see Section 33.4.3.2). 

Vanadium trichloride or tribromide reacts with thioethers giving [VX3L2] (X = C1 or Br L = SMe2, tetrahydrothiophene or SEt2).288,289 The complex with di-n-propyl sulfide could not be isolated.288 These compounds are oxidized very easily. Solubility, molecular weights and conductance show that they are monomeric and non-ionic. Dipole moments, IR and electronic spectra are consistent with trans trigonal bipyramidal structures. 

Most complexes of vanadium(IV) with group IV ligands are normally organometallic compounds, which have been reviewed.9... 

From equation (30), whether a tris chelate is formed depends on the donor ability of the ligand. Several vanadium(IV) complexes with 1,2-dihydroxybenzenes formed from solutions of the ligand, VOSO4 and thallium(I) acetate.498 The compounds are of two types (I) T12[V(RC6H302)3] (R = H, 3-Me, 4-Me, 3-MeO) and (II) T12[V0(RC6H302)2] (R = CHO). 

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