Dimethyl zinc, reaction with cobalt

Solvent for Electrolytic Reactions. Dimethyl sulfoxide has been widely used as a solvent for polarographic studies and a more negative cathode potential can be used in it than in water. In DMSO, cations can be successfully reduced to metals that react with water. Thus, the following metals have been electrodeposited from their salts in DMSO cerium, actinides, iron, nickel, cobalt, and manganese as amorphous deposits zinc, cadmium, tin, and bismuth as crystalline deposits and chromium, silver, lead, copper, and titanium (96—103). Generally, no metal less noble than zinc can be deposited from DMSO. 

Subsequent reaction of porphyrazines 170 and 171 with Cu(OAc)2 resulted in the selective metalation within the macrocyclic cavity to provide the corresponding copper complexes 166 (62%) and 172 (47%). Treatment of pz 170 with manganese acetate and iron sulfate in dimethyl sulfate gave the dmso adducts 173 (70%) and 174 (85%), respectively (168). Axial ligation was also observed when other metals were incorporated such as cobalt acetate, nickel acetate, and zinc acetate to give the metal complexes 175 (83%), 176 (70%), and 177 (90%) as the hydrates. The axial ligand of... 

PET methanolysis is based on the treatment of PET with methanol at relatively high temperatures (180-280 °C) and pressures (20-40 atm), which leads to the formation of dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) and ethylene glycol as the main products.39-47 The reaction proceeds usually in the presence of typical transesterification catalysts, the most widely used being zinc acetate. Other catalysts employed in PET methanolysis are magnesium acetate, cobalt acetate and lead dioxide. 

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