Isocyanide complexes, of chromium

Only more recent investigations of organic isocyanide complexes of chromium are in this section, because general synthetic methods for metal isocyanide complexes, including mixed carbonyl isocyanides, and the nature of the metal-isocyanide bond are discussed in Sections... 

Some recent advances are the isolation of aryl isocyanide complexes of chromium(III) Cr(CNAr)6]X3, and six- and seven-coordinate alkyl isocyanide complexes of chromium(II) Cr(CNR)6j7]X2. All but the chromium(O) and the seven-coordinate chromium(II) complexes lave less than 18 electrons in the valency shell. 

Cyanide and organic isocyanide complexes of chromium(ll) have been included with th lower oxidation states in Sections 35.2.1.1 and 35.2.1.2. 

Several new isocyanide complexes of chromium(m) have been prepared by the electrochemical reduction of heavy-metal adducts of chromium(iii) aquocyano-complexes, and characterized by their visible spectra. The chromium 2p- and 3s-orbital ionization potentials in K3[Cr(NCS)6] have been reported, and the lattice parameters for this anion in the salt with diaquotris-(nicotinic acid)holmium(iii) determined. " The absorption spectra of the... 

ZERO-VALENT ISOCYANIDE COMPLEXES OF CHROMIUM, MOLYBDENUM, AND TUNGSTEN... 

Merlic developed a new variation of the thermally induced benzannulation reaction. The dienylcarbene complex 132 was reacted with isonitrile to give an orf/zo-alkoxyaniline derivative 135 [76] (Scheme 56). This annulation product is regiocomplementary to those reported from photochemical reaction of chromium dienyl(amino)carbene complexes. The metathesis of the isocyanide with the dienylcarbene complex 132 generates a chromium-complexed di-enylketenimine intermediate 133 which undergoes electrocyclisation. Final tau-tomerisation and demetalation afford the orf/zo-alkoxyaniline 135. 

A novel polysiloxane, containing the isocyanide group pendent to the backbone, has been synthesized. It is observed to react with the metal vapors of chromium, iron and nickel to afford binary metal complexes of the type M(CN-[P])n, where n = 6, 5, 4 respectively, in which the polymer-attached isocyanide group provides the stabilization for the metal center. The product obtained from the reaction with Fe was found to be photosensitive yielding the Fe2(CN-[P])q species and extensive cross-linking of the polymer. The Cr and Ni products were able to be oxidized on exposure of thin films to the air, or electrochemically in the presence of an electron relay. The availability of different oxidation states for the metals in these new materials gives hope that novel redox-active polymers may be accessible. 

Focusing on reactions using the Fluid Matrix Technique, we have studied the interaction of chromium vapor with 2 at 200 K (13). The resulting film was found to contain metal complexes encapsulated within the polymer in which the isocyanide group adopts a well-defined octahedral arrangement around the chromium center, i.e. a species of type Cr(CN-[P])g. Since characterization of this metal complex within the polymer is not trivial we shall develop the analysis in a little detail. 

ORGANOMETALLIC COMPLEXES OF ISOMERIC ACYL ISOCYANIDES CHROMIUM CARBONYL (ACYL ISOCYANIDE) AND (ACYL CYANIDE) COMPLEXES... 

The extensive organometallic chemistry of chromium, i.e. the hexacarbonyl and its derivatives, organochromium compounds without carbonyl ligands, cyanide and isocyanide complexes, alkene, allyl, diene, cyclopentadiene and arene derivatives, and complexes of a-donor carbon ligands, has been recorded in Chapters 26.1 and 26.2 of Volume 3 of Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry .1 In the present section, chromium complexes... 

There are Cr° and Cr complexes of both aryl and alkyl isocyanides (RNC) as well as cyanides because of their Cr-C linkages, these are described elsewhere see Chromium Organometallic Chemistry). 

Among the types of complexes found here are formyl, acyl, alkyl, and aryl carbonyls, carbonyl cyanides," " carbonyl isocyanides and acetylides," and thiocarbonyl and seleno-carbonyl complexes." Of the greatest significance, however, are the chromium carbenes, for example, (CO)sCr=C(OR)R". This chemistry has been thoroughly reviewed " nevertheless, these compounds will be briefly discussed here. 

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