Kinetics ligand substitutions

Empirical approach to ligand effects on the kinetics of substitution and redox reactions. V. Gut-mann and R. Schmid, Coord. Chem. Rev., 1974,12, 263-293 (90). 

As already mentioned, complexes of chromium(iii), cobalt(iii), rhodium(iii) and iridium(iii) are particularly inert, with substitution reactions often taking many hours or days under relatively forcing conditions. The majority of kinetic studies on the reactions of transition-metal complexes have been performed on complexes of these metal ions. This is for two reasons. Firstly, the rates of reactions are comparable to those in organic chemistry, and the techniques which have been developed for the investigation of such reactions are readily available and appropriate. The time scales of minutes to days are compatible with relatively slow spectroscopic techniques. The second reason is associated with the kinetic inertness of the products. If the products are non-labile, valuable stereochemical information about the course of the substitution reaction may be obtained. Much is known about the stereochemistry of ligand substitution reactions of cobalt(iii) complexes, from which certain inferences about the nature of the intermediates or transition states involved may be drawn. This is also the case for substitution reactions of square-planar complexes of platinum(ii), where study has led to the development of rules to predict the stereochemical course of reactions at this centre. 

There is a large amount of data available concerning the thermodynamic effects of ligands on other coordination sites (i. e., the thermodynamic cis- and iraws-effects). However, very little is known about the effects of ligands on the kinetic lability of other coordination sites. In fact, very little work has been carried out, directly with Bi2-derivatives, or with models of B12, on the kinetics of ligand substitution at the cobalt center. Of particular biochemical interest would be studies on the rate of displacement of coordinated benzimidazole by various ligands. Such work has not been reported at present. If the benzimidazole is replaced during enzymatic catalysis so that the lower axial position is occupied by some other Lewis base, one would expect this displacement, and the reverse step, to be very facile. This appears to be qualitatively true in that when water displaces benzimidazole as the benzimidazole is pro-... 

Preparative methods of 99mTc-labeled radiopharmaceuticals are discussed in detail by Volkert and Jurrison in this book [49]. Accordingly, limited examples of kinetics for the preparation of 99mTc-labeled compounds by ligand substitution are discussed in this section. 

The chapter on kinetics and mechanisms of complex formation and ligand substitution at alkali metal and alkaline earth cations elsewhere in this volume provides context and complementary discussion of these processes in relation to calcium. 

Kinetic studies of aquation of dinuclear [ traras-PtCl(NH3)2 2 (p-NH2(CH2)6NH2)]2+ established rate constants for the loss of the first and second chloride ligands (7.9 x 10-5 and 10.6 x 10-4s-1), and for the reverse anations (1.2 and 1.5M-1s-1). Reactivities here are very similar to those in analogous mononuclear systems [Pt(amine)3Cl]+ (204). A kinetic and equilibrium study of axial ligand substitution reactions... 

The first step in oxygen transfer is ligand substitution at an oxorhenium(V) center, Eq. (14). The final step (see Scheme 2, step 2) very likely is also ligand substitution. We have therefore examined the kinetics and mechanism of several reactions in which one monodentate ligand displaces another, represented in general as follows ... 

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