Formazans bidentate

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Triphenylformazan behaves as a bidentate ligand forming 2 1 complexes (217) with divalent copper, nickel, and cobalt.377 Formazan metal complexes can be compared to complexes of azo dyes or beta diketones due to structural similarity.301,302 In general, formazan metal complexes have low stability toward acids. However, when electron-donating substituents are added to the aromatic ring, a considerable enhancement in stability is observed. Cationic complexes of type 218 are also known. The complexation of formazan with metal cation can be accompanied by oxidation to the tetrazolium salt and the formation of a complex... 

In general, metal complexes of bidentate formazans have low stability towards acids and, following the comparable work on metal complexes of azo compounds, Wizinger116 was prompted to investigate tri- and tetra-dentate formazans in an endeavour to obtain metal complexes having enhanced stability. 

Comparison117129 of the behaviour of bidentate, tridentate and tetradentate formazans with copper(II) salts has effectively demonstrated that two competing reactions occur copper complex formation (equation 16) and oxidation of the formazan to tetrazolium salt (equation 17). 

The relative importance of these reactions is governed by the stability of the copper complex formazans towards acids. In the case of the bidentate formazans, the equilibrium (16) lies well to the left and such formazans are stoichiometrically oxidized to tetrazolium salts by copper(II) acetate. Tridentate formazans react with copper(II) acetate to give copper(II) complexes but are stoichiometrically oxidized to tetrazolium salts by copper(II) chloride. With the exception of... 

Metallization. Bident ate formazans that are insoluble in water can be warmed with cobalt, nickel, and copper salts (preferably acetates) to form metal chelates in solvents such as methanol, ethanol, acetone, and dimethylformamide. Metal complexes of tri- and tetradentate formazans are much more stable. Metallization with divalent salts occurs rapidly at room temperature. On reaction with diazo-tized 2-aminophenols or 2-aminonaphthols, coupling and metallization with divalent metal salts can take place concurrently under the same conditions. When coupling is complete, the dye is usually fully metallized. 

Metal-Containing Bidentate Formazans. The most outstanding property of forma-zans is their ability to form coordination compounds with metals. They behave as monovalent, bidentate ligands and form neutral 1 2 metal chelates with divalent metals. 

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