Ligands hydroxyl

Zirconium tetrachloride is instantly hydrolyzed in water to zirconium oxide dichloride octahydrate [13520-92-8]. Zirconium tetrachloride exchanges chlorine for 0x0 bonds in the reaction with hydroxylic ligands, forming alkoxides from alcohols (see Alkoxides, METAl). Zirconium tetrachloride combines with many Lewis bases such as dimethyl sulfoxide, phosphoms oxychloride and amines including ammonia, ethers, and ketones. The zirconium organometalLic compounds ate all derived from zirconium tetrachloride. 

A comparison of Schemes V and VI show that the electrochemistry of (0EP)Ge(C6H5)0H and (0EP)Si(C6H5)0H are similar. The first oxidation of (0EP)Si(C6H5)0H occurs at the hydroxyl ligand and generates (0EP)Si(C6H5)C10, as a finai product. This compound can be reversibly oxidized by up to two electrons at more positive potentials and gives a porphyrin it cation radical and dication(36). 

Several recent studies have shown the ease of oxygen migration to tin, OH groups from hydroxylic ligands 235) [Eq. (29)] as well as oxygen from nitro groups becoming bonded to tin (79) ... 

Holmes and his coworkers described a number of pentacoordinated anionic germanium complexes containing a spirocyclic framework with methyl, phenyl, halogen or hydroxyl ligand at the acyclic site307,332,333. Reaction of an organogermanium trichloride with a catechol or thiocatechol derivative in the presence of triethylamine, followed by a metathetical exchange, led to desired products as illustrated by the formation of the phenyl-substituted derivatives 90 and 91 (equation 16)333. 

The hydrolysis of hydrated metal ions can also be written as the interaction between the hydrated metal ion and the hydroxyl ligand. For example... 

Holmes and his coworkers described a number of pentacoordinated anionic germanium complexes containing a spirocyclic framework with methyl, phenyl, halogen or hydroxyl ligand at the acyclic Reaction of an organogermanium trichloride with... 

Infrared spectroscopy has shown that the concentration of hydroxyl groups is higher on Fe,H/MFI than Fe/MFI (46). Presumably, the reversible conversion of peroxide to superoxide corresponds to a reversible one-electron reduction of the iron cations. These results suggest that the presence of hydroxyl ligands bonded to iron in the binuclear cluster facilitates redox changes in the iron. 

The diimine-hydroxyl ligand poap, (48), undergoes self-assembly in the presence of Fe + to give Fes and Fee... 

The oxidation states of Cr and the transformation of pillars upon heat treatment and sulfidation were investigated using XPS. In the case of air-dried Cr-K10 and Cr-PB, the binding energy (BE) of Cr is almost the same. The obtained BE values of 577.6-577.7 eV (representative XPS spectra shown in Fig. 3) can be attributed to Cr(lll) coordinated with HjO and hydroxyl ligands. This could be expected due to the hydroxy-oxy chromium composition of the pillars [12]. Heat treatment of the... 

The enantioselective ring opening of epoxides with salen-Cr complexes yields intermediates for the manufacture of ( )-9-[2-(phosphonomethoxy)propyl]ade-nine [67] (a prophylactic against SIV infection). Os-catalyzed asymmetric amino-hydroxylation (ligand modified by cinchona alkaloids) leads to a-hydroxy-j6-phenylalanine, a derivative for the C13 chain of taxol [68]. 

Because of time constraints, this lab will not deal with proposed structures in their entirety, but rather will focus on simplified nickel complexes. These simplified structures are given in Figure 3.5. The simplified structures all contain two ammonia ligands and two hydroxyl ligands. Two structures are 4 coordinate and the other two include a water ligand as a possible 5 coordinate structure. 

Figure 3.5 Simplified nickel complexes used in this lab. All contain two ammonia ligands and two hydroxyl ligands. Shown in this figure are the geometries used in this lab square planar, tetrahedral, bipyramidal, and square pyramidal, respectively.

The presence of a metal on a phosphoryl transferring-enzyme provides no assurance that the metal is directly involved in phosphoryl transfer. Thus with alkaline phosphatase, no direct interactions of Cl- with enzyme bound Zn2+ (69) or water with enzyme-bound Mn2+ (70) were detected by nuclear relaxation. Similarly no direct interaction of phosphate with enzyme bound Co2+ (71) or Mn2+ (71, 72) was detected by 31P nuclear relaxation. A Mn2+ to phosphate distance of 7.3 A was calculated from NMR data on the inactive Mn2+-enzyme (73) indicative of a second sphere complex. These results are in accord with crystallographic data on the enzyme which at 7.7 A resolution indicate that substrates cannot easily gain direct access to the metal site (74). More recent proton relaxation studies with the Cu2+ enzyme, which retains 5% of the activity, indicate the presence of a rapidly exchanging axial hydroxyl ligand on Cu2+ suggesting that the active metals may promote the nucleophilicity of the water molecule which is to attack the phosphorus (75). 

Such treatments can raise the activity of Cr/alumina by as much as 10-fold. Presumably, this increase is a result of the increased acidity, and the replacement of hydroxyl ligands by non-coordinating F may possibly also contribute. In Figure 151, the activity of Cr/alumina catalyst is shown as a function of the amount of fluoride impregnated, in which the catalysts were subjected to several different activation temperatures. Fluoride, and other additives as well, is often more effective if it is added after the hydrated starting material AlOOH (boehmite) or Al(OH)3 (bayerite) is first converted into crystalline y- or 11-AI2O3. Thus, the upper graph in... 

An alternative role for metal ions in the hydrolysis of organic phosphorus compounds is the coordination and induced deprotonation of water to create a very reactive nucleophile (Smolen and Stone, 1997). The effect can be further enhanced if the phosphorus compound under attack is proximally coordinated to the hydroxyl ion. For example, Jones et al. (1983) reported a 10 increase in the rate of hydrolysis oipara-nitrophenyl phosphate when it is coordinated to a cobalt (111) complex with a proximal hydroxyl ligand. 

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