Ethylenediamine complex

Lithium Acetylide. Lithium acetyhde—ethylenediamine complex [50475-76-8], LiCM7H -112X01120112X112, is obtained as colodess-to-light-tan, free-flowing crystals from the reaction of /V-lithoethylenediamine and acetylene in an appropriate solvent (131). The complex decomposes slowly above 40°O to lithium carbide and ethylenediamine. Lithium acetyhde—ethylenediamine is very soluble in primary amines, ethylenediamine, and dimethyl sulfoxide. It is slightly soluble in ether, THF, and secondary and tertiary amines, and is insoluble in hydrocarbons. 

Both sodium acetylide in xylene (Air Reduction Corporation) and lithium acetylide-ethylenediamine complex (Foote Mineral Co.) are now commercially available, and have been used successfully for the ethynylation of 17-keto steroids. 

The structure of the deprotonated ethylenediamine complex [Os(en-H)2en]-Br2 has been confirmed (Figure 1.58) the Os=NH bonds (2.11-2.19 A) indicating clear multiple bond character. It can be used as a source of conventional ethylenediamine complexes. 

Ethylenediamine complexes Extraction Halide complexes structures vibrational spectra... 

Ethylenediamine complexes Extraction Halide complexes structures vibrational spectra Halides +3 state +4 state +5 state +6 state... 

We see from these examples that many of the carbon nucleophiles we encountered in Chapter 10 are also nucleophiles toward aldehydes and ketones (cf. Reactions 10-104-10-108 and 10-110). As we saw in Chapter 10, the initial products in many of these cases can be converted by relatively simple procedures (hydrolysis, reduction, decarboxylation, etc.) to various other products. In the reaction with terminal acetylenes, sodium acetylides are the most common reagents (when they are used, the reaction is often called the Nef reaction), but lithium, magnesium, and other metallic acetylides have also been used. A particularly convenient reagent is lithium acetylide-ethylenediamine complex, a stable, free-flowing powder that is commercially available. Alternatively, the substrate may be treated with the alkyne itself in the presence of a base, so that the acetylide is generated in situ. This procedure is called the Favorskii reaction, not to be confused with the Favorskii rearrangement (18-7). ... 

Chelating ligands bind much more tightly to their metal cations than do ligands that possess only one donor atom. A good example is the ethylenediamine complex with. The ethylenediamine complex is much more stable than the analogous ammonia complex ... 

Breaking one bond in an ethylenediamine complex leaves the en ligand dangling but tethered to the metal by the second nitrogen atom. (Each carbon atom bonds to two hydrogen atoms that are not shown.)... 

Dwyer and Sargeson have used the optical activity method in their study of the exchange between the tris-(ethylenediamine) complexes of Co(III) and Co(II)... 

The presence of ligands, either in the form of added anions such as acetate or as co-solvents or solvents, such as pyridine, markedly affect the kinetics. In pyridine or dodecylamine solvents the hydrogenation of Ag(I) acetate follows simple second-order kinetics, as does that of Cu(I) acetate. This behaviour is also shown in aqueous solutions by Ag(I) in the presence of acetate ions and by an ethylenediamine complex of Ag(I) . The rate of hydrogenation of Cu(II) acetate, on the other hand, is independent of oxidant concentration. The rate of oxidation of hydrogen by Cu(II) acetate in quinoline is also independent of oxidant concentration , but does depend on the square of the concentration of cuprous acetate which acts as a catalyst. For further details of these complicating features, reference should be made to the original papers and to Hal-pern s review ... 

Dihalides are reduced by Cr(II) to the corresponding olefin ". Allylic and benzylic halides and polyhalides are reduced more readily than simple alkyl halides, but even the latter are readily reduced by an ethylenediamine complex ofCr(ri) . ... 

Reduction of simple alkyl halides to alkanes by ethylenediamine complexes of Cr(II), denoted Cr"(en) occurs readily , e.g. for isopropyl chloride in aqueous dimethylformamide at 25 °C simple second-order behaviour is found with ki dependent on [en]/[Cr(II)] but reaching a limiting value of 1.6x 10 l.mole . sec . Competition studies between a mixture of two alkyl chlorides for Cr(II) was achieved by estimating alkane products by gas-liquid chromatography and... 

Enantioselective Br2 addition to cyclohexene (11) was accomplished by the solid-state reaction of a 2 1 inclusion complex of 10b and 11 with 7, although the optical yield was low (Sect. 2.1). However, some successful enantioselective solid-state reactions have been reported. For example, reaction of a 1 1 complex of 68 and acetophenone (64a) with borane-ethylenediamine complex (130) in the solid state gave the (i )-(+)-2-hydroxyethylbenzene (65a) of 44% ee in 96%... 

Zhu, S., Gorski, W., Powell, D.R. and Walmsley, J.A. (2006) Synthesis, structures, and electrochemistry of gold(III) ethylenediamine complexes and interactions with guanosme 5 -monophosphate. Inorganic Chemistry,... 

Consider the following stability constants for the ethylenediamine complexes of the metals listed. 

Dumond F., Marceau E., and Che M. 2007. A study of cobalt speciation in Co/Al203 catalysts prepared from solutions of cobalt-ethylenediamine complexes. J. Phys. Chem. C 111 4780-89. 

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