Iridium complexes hydrolysis

A Cr(VI) sulfoxide complex has been postulated after interaction of [CrOjtClj] with MejSO (385), but the complex was uncharacterized as it was excessively unstable. It was observed that hydrolysis of the product led to the formation of dimethyl sulfone. The action of hydrogen peroxide on mesityl ferrocencyl sulfide in basic media yields both mesityl ferrocenyl sulfoxide (21%) and the corresponding sulfone (62%) via a reaction similar to the Smiles rearrangement (165). Catalytic air oxidation of sulfoxides by rhodium and iridium complexes has been observed. Rhodium(III) and iridium(III) chlorides are catalyst percursors for this reaction, but ruthenium(III), osmium(III), and palladium(II) chlorides are not (273). The metal complex and sulfoxide are dissolved in hot propan-2-ol/water (9 1) and the solution purged with air to achieve oxidation. The metal is recovered as a noncrystalline, but still catalytically active, material after reaction (272). The most active precursor was [IrHClj(S-Me2SO)3], and it was observed that alkyl sulfoxides oxidize more readily than aryl sulfoxides, while thioethers are not oxidized as complex formation occurs. 

Tables 1 and 2 gives the numerical data for a series of vanadium (II), chromium (III), manganese (IV), molybdenum (III), rhenium (IV), iridium (VI), cobalt (II), and nickel (II) complexes. The first spin-allowed absorption band, caused by an internal transition in the partly filled shell, has the wavenumber equal to A. If spin-forbidden transitions are superposed on this band, a certain distortion from the usual shape of Gaussian error curve can be observed, and one takes the centre of gravity of intensity as the corrected wavenumber ai. One has to be careful not to confuse electron transfer or other strong bands with the internal transitions discussed here. Obviously, one has also to watch for absorption due to other coloured species, produced e. g. by oxidation or hydrolysis of the solutions. In the case of certain octahedral nickel (II), and nearly all tetrahedral cobalt (II) complexes, the first band has not actually been...

All of the carbonato cobalt(III) complexes reported here are reddish in color and extremely soluble in water. The rhodium complex is pale-yellow, whereas the iridium salt is virtually white they are both soluble in water. Treatment with dilute acid immediately gives the corresponding aqua complex with evolution of carbon dioxide. The characterization and the mechanistic details of acid hydrolysis of these complexes have been reported.3,4,11... 

The base hydrolysis of [Co(NHg)5(02CCF3)] + and the analogous complexes of rhodium, iridium, and chromium(IIT) appears to involve the concerted attack of two hydroxide ions—one bonding to the acyl carbon atom of the trifluoroacetato group, and the other deprotonating the first 58, 129). 

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