Inert metal complexes inherent lability

Leaving Groups on Inert Metal Complexes with Inherent or Induced Lability Geoffrey A. Lawrance... 

LEAVING GROUPS ON INERT METAL COMPLEXES WITH INHERENT OR INDUCED LABILITY... 

Lability for at least one coordination site has been adequately demonstrated in the traditionally inert metal complexes in recent decades. Induction of lability by chemical reactions on a normally poor leaving group, by metal ions, protons, and base and by polyelectrolytes and micelles, offer opportunities in specific circumstances. Largely during the last decade, however, a number of ligands have appeared that are poor nucleophiles and inherently labile. Such molecules, of which tri-fluoromethanesulfonate is the most extensively studied, are univer-... 

C) selective lability of coordination sites in complexes of this inherently inert metal offers synthetic... 

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