Alkaline earth metal complexes 1,3-diketones

Tumipseed, S. B., Barkley, R. M., and Sievers, R. E., Synthesis and characterization of alkaline-earth-metal P-diketonate complexes used as precursors for chemical vapor deposition of thin-film superconductors, Inorg. Chem., 30, 1164 (1991). 

Few stable complexes of alkali metals have been reported. Complexes of the alkali metals with j -diketone derivaties, o-nitrophenol, and sali-cylaldehyde have been described in the literature.The sodium compounds ranged from hydrated ionic salts such as Na (acac)-2 H2O to adducts like Na(Sal) HSal (HSal = Salicylaldehyde). PfeiflFer and others have reported the isolation of a complex of sodium perchlorate with 1,10-phenan-throline. Brady and Badger have presented evidence for chelation in sodium salts of o-hydroxybenzaldehydes. More recently, Popp and Joesten have isolated and characterized a number of alkali metal and alkaline earth metal salts with the ligand octamethylpyrophosphoramide (OMPA). Gentile and co-workers have also reported complexes of diacetamide with alkali and alkaline earth metal salts. 

The coordination of /3-diketonates and related species to alkali and alkaline earth cations has long been recognized. Combes first prepared Be(acac)2 in 1887,255 and the contribution of Sidgwick and Brewer concerning the nature of dihydrated alkali metal /3-diketonates plays a seminal role in the development of this area of coordination chemistry.19 A review concerning the structure and reactivity of alkali metal enolates has been written, 6 and sections on alkali and alkaline earth /3-diketonates can be found within more generalized accounts of /3-diketone complexes.257,258... 

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