Ligands donor

There is more to tire Wilkinson hydrogenation mechanism tlian tire cycle itself a number of species in tire cycle are drained away by reaction to fomi species outside tire cycle. Thus, for example, PPh (Ph is phenyl) drains rhodium from tire cycle and tlius it inliibits tire catalytic reaction (slows it down). However, PPh plays anotlier, essential role—it is part of tire catalytically active species and, as an electron-donor ligand, it affects tire reactivities of tire intemiediates in tire cycle in such a way tliat tliey react rapidly and lead to catalysis. Thus, tliere is a tradeoff tliat implies an optimum ratio of PPh to Rli. 

Wlien a strong electron-donor ligand such as pyridine is added to tlie reaction mixture, it can bond so strongly to tlie Rli tliat it essentially drains off all tlie Rli and shuts down tlie cycle it is called a catalyst poison. A poison for many catalysts is CO it works as a physiological poison in essentially the same way as it works as a catalyst poison it bonds to tlie iron sites of haemoglobin in competition witli O. ... 

H2 ean no longer be ignored in understanding the valenee states of the XY moleeules. This situation arises quite naturally in systems involving transition metals, where interaetions between empty metal or metal ion orbitals and 2-eleetron donor ligands are ubiquitous. 

Titanium triiodide can be made by direct combination of the elements or by reducing the tetraiodide with aluminum at 280°C in a sealed tube. Til reacts with nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur donor ligands to give the corresponding adducts (148). 

A2iaes form an interesting class of nitrogen donor ligands, which can react ia a 1 1 or 2 1 ratio with a tetraalkyl titanate to form complexes of stereochemical iaterest (18) (149). 

Except for a more detailed consideration of the interaction of donor ligands with boranes is beyond the scope of this review. Decaborane is... 

Polyisoprenes of 94—98% as-1,4 content were obtained with lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, and other rare-earth metal ions (eg, LnCl ) with trialkyl aluminum (R3AI) (34). Also, a NdCl 2THF(C2H3)3A1 catalyst has been used to prepare 95% <7j -l,4-polyisoprene (35). <7j -l,4-Polyisoprene of 98% as-1,4 and 2% 3,4 content was obtained with organoalurninum—lanthariide catalysts, NdCl where L is an electron-donor ligand such as ethyl alcohol or butyl alcohol, or a long-chain alcohol, and is 1 to 4 (36). 

C. A. McAuliffe and W. Levason, Phosphine, Arsine and Stibine Complexes of the Transition Elements, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1979, 546 pp. A review with over 2700 references. See also C. A. McAuliffe (ed,), Transition-Metal Complexes of Phosphorus, Arsenic and Antimony Donor Ligands, Macmillan, London, 1972,... 

The S-donor ligands SO, S2O2 and SO2 are mentioned in Section 15.2.5 and S-N ligands in Section 15.2.7. Thiocyanate (SCN ) is ambidentate. but towards heavier metaLs it... 

M(SCH2CH2S)3] with stereochemistry midway between octahedral and trigonal-prismatic, are known for both Nb and Ta. The pentahalides of these two metals act as Lewis acids and form complexes of the type MX5L with O, S, N, P. and As donor ligands. 

Until comparatively recently only vanadium had a significant coordination chemistry and even so the majority of its compounds are easily oxidized and must be prepared with air rigorously excluded. The usual methods are to use VCI3 as the starting material, or to reduce solutions of vanadium(V) or (IV) electrolytically. However, the reduction of pentahalides of Nb and Ta by Na amalgam or Mg, has facilitated the expansion of Nb " and Ta " chemistry particularly with S-and P-donor ligands. 

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. 

Green-yellow salts of the tetrahedral [MX4] (X = Cl, Br, I) ions can be obtained from ethanolic solutions and are well characterized. Furthermore, a whole series of adducts [MnX2L2] (X = Cl, Br, I) are known where L is an N-, P- or A -donor ligand, and both octahedral and tetrahedral stereochemistries are found. Of interest because of the possible role of manganese porphyrins in photosynthesis is [Mn (phthalocyanine)] which is square planar. The reaction of aqueous edta with MnC03 yields... 

Complexes with mixed 0-and A -donor ligands such as edta and Schiff bases are well known and [Fe(edta)(H20)] and [Fe(salen)Cl] are examples of 7-coordinate (pentagonal bipyramidal) and 5-coordinate (square-pyramidal) stereochemistries respectively. 

This is the second of the common oxidation states for iron and is familiar for ruthenium, particularly with Group 15-donor ligands (Ru probably forms more nitrosyl complexes than any other metal). Osmium(II) also produces a considerable number of complexes but is usually more strongly reducing than Ru". 

Direct substitution of the carbonyls themselves is of course possible. Besides Group 15 donor ligands, unsaturated hydrocarbons give especially interesting products. The iron carbonyl acetylenes provided early examples of the use of carbonyls in organic synthesis. From them a wide variety... 

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