Hexaammines

Another important example is the leaching of nickel sulfide under ammonia and oxygen pressure to form hexaammine nickel (Sherritt-Gordon process). 

In the preparation of a)balt(III) hexaammine salts by ihe aerial oxidation of cobalt(II) in aqueous ammonia it is possible, in the absence... 

LCo(H20)6] ion, and bidentate /V-donor ligands such as cn, bipy and phen form octahedral cationic complexes [Co(L-L)3] , which are much more stable to oxidation than is the hexaammine [Co(NH3)6l . Acac yields the orange [Co(acac)2(H20)2] which has the tram octahedral structure and can be dehydrated to [Co(acac)2l which attains octahedral coordination by forming the tetrameric species shown in Fig. 26.3. This is comparable with the trimeric [Ni(acac>2]3 (p. 1157), like which it shows evidence of weak ferromagnetic interactions at very low temperatures. fCo(edta)(H20)] is ostensibly analogous to the 7-coordinate Mn and complexes with the same stoichiometry, but in fact the cobalt is only 6-coordinate, 1 of the oxygen atoms of the cdta being too far away from the cobalt (272 compared to 223 pm for the other edta donor atoms) to be considered as coordinated. 

Ruthenium, (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid)-chemical analysis, 1,488 Ruthenium, hexaammine-oxidation, 1,370 redox potential. 1,485... 

There is tentative evidence for the lower reactivity of the hexaammine species in high ammonia concentration. The tetraammine (diaquated) and lower ammine Co(II) species do not pick up O2 over relatively long periods (75). 

Although somewhat more stable than its hexaammine relative, the air-sensitive [Co(en)3]2+ is still substitutionally labile and racemizes rapidly in solution. Chiral discrimination in its (racemic) solutions has been observed in outer sphere electron transfer reactions with optically active oxidants including [Coin(EDTA)], 209,210 [Cr(ox)3]3-,211,212 Co111 oxalate, malonate, and acetylacetonate (acac) complexes.213... 

However, there are a number of other miscellaneous biological roles played by this complex. The [Co(NH3)6]3+ ion has been shown to inhibit the hammerhead ribozyme by displacing a Mn2+ ion from the active site.576 However, [Co(NH3)6]3+ does not inhibit ribonuclease H (RNase),577 topoisomerase I,578 or hairpin ribozyme,579 which require activation by Mg2+ ions. The conclusions from these studies were that an outer sphere complex formation between the enzyme and Mgaq2+ is occuring rather than specific coordination of the divalent ion to the protein. These results are in contrast to DNase I inhibition by the same hexaammine complex. Inhibition of glucose-induced insulin secretion from pancreatic cells by [Co(NH3)6]3+ has been found.580 Intracellular injection of [Co(NH3)6]3+ into a neurone has been found to cause characteristic changes to the structure of its mitochondria, and this offers a simple technique to label neuronal profiles for examination of their ultrastructures.581... 

Ichiishi, T. Sato, A. Manufacture of Hexaammine Iridium Nitrate Solution. Patent JP 2,001,106,535, April, 17,... 

As a simple example of non-d coordination, let us consider the hexaammine-zinc(II) cation [Zn(NH3)6]2+, whose optimized structure is shown in Fig. 4.51. Each ammine ligand serves as a formal two-electron sigma donor, and the total electron count atZn therefore corresponds to a 22e system, again violating the 18-electron rule. Each ammine ligand is bound to the Zn2+ cation by about 60.7 kcal mol-1, which is in part attributable to classical electrostatic interactions of ion-dipole type. 

Y. Harel, A. W. Adamson. Photocalorimetry. 4. Enthalpies of Substitution Reactions of Rhodium(III) and Iridium(lll) Pentaammine Halides and of Ruthenium(II) Hexaammine. J. Phys. Chem. 1986, 90, 6690-6693. 

A series of 12 complexes of Co(III) with both ionic and covalent azide groups was prepared and most were easily detonable as dry salts, especially at elevated temperatures [1]. Polarography is an accurate and safe method of analysis for azides [2], Hexaammine-cobalt, -chromium and -rhodium hexaazidocobaltates are explosive, particularly in the dry state [3],... 

DR. DAVID McMILLIN (Purdue University) In view of all of this, would you comment on the differences between the selfexchange rate constants for the cobalt hexaammine, trisethyl-... 

DR. SUTIN Various values for the cobalt-nitrogen distances in the hexaammines have been reported. Part of this variation is almost certainly due to lattice (counter-ion) effects. Recent literature values for the Co-N distances in... 

The H3NAIX3 molecules have been studied in the gas phase by IR/Raman spectroscopy.24 NCA yields Al—N force constants of 1.50N cm-1 (X = C1) and 1.45 N cm-1 (X = Br). The analyses of spectra were supported by ab initio MO calculations which were also extended to H3NAIF3, a molecule which has eluded synthesis. The ammonia adduct of alane (A1H3) is unknown. A hexaammine A1(BH4)3-6NH3 is the product of excess ammonia on KA1(BH4)4.25 It is believed to contain the cation A1(NH3)1+ and it is possible that this species is also present in some of the complexes A1X3(NH3) , noted above, but structural investigation is required. 

The [Cr(en)3]2+ and [Cr(pn)3]2+ salts have reflectance spectra (Table 11) resembling those of the hexaammines, and the six N donor atoms are assumed to complete tetragonally distorted octahedra around the metal. Stability constant measurements (Table 39) have shown that the ions [Cr(en)(aq)]2+ (vmax= 18 300 cm-1, e = 25 dm3 mol-1 cm-1) and [Cr(en)2(aq)]2+ (vma = 17 500 cm-1, e = 17 dm3 mol-1 cm-1) exist in aqueous solution, but that, as in the copper(II) system, the third ethylenediamine molecule is only weakly bound, and care is needed to prevent loss of en from tris(amine) complexes in the preparations. Several bis(amine) complexes, e.g. [CrBr2(en)2], have been isolated, and these are assigned trans structures because of IR spectral resemblances to the corresponding oopper(II) complexes. Since the spectrum of [Cr(S04)(en)2] also shows the presence of bidentate sulfate, this is assigned a trans octahedral structure with bridging anions. 

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