Coordination compounds substituted hydrazines

A variety of macrocyclic complexes which have adjacent nitrogen atoms (cyclic hydrazines, hydrazones or diazines) are formed by condensations of hydrazine, substituted hydrazines or hydrazones with carbonyl compounds. The reactions parallel in diversity those of amines, but are often more facile since the reacting NH2 groups is generally not coordinated and the electrophile is thus not in competition with the metal ion. The resulting macrocycles may be capable of coordination isomerism, since either of the adjacent nitrogen atoms can act as donor atom. 

In fact, the hydrazonate coordination compounds exhibit, as do the complexes with substituted hydrazines and oximes, isomer forms characterized by various orientations of the substituents at the nitrogen atom of the amine group and/or carbon atom of the carbonyl moiety [68]. 

We have made several other V" complexes by displacing the hydrazine ligand in [V(N2H4)(NS3)] with Cl , N3 CN , MeCN or CNBu , and have prepared a series of imido-complexes [V(NAr)(NS3)] (Ar = various substituted phenyl groups), and of hydrazido-complexes [V(NNR R )(NS3)] (R R = methyl or phenyl) from reactions of [V(0)(NS3)] with aryl isocyanates or 1,1-disubstituted hydrazines, respectively. Structural studies on several of these compounds always reveal trigonal bipyramidal coordination about the V atom. The V-N distance in the V(NS3) system, as a result of the shape of the NS3, is sensitive to... 

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