Ligands analytical methods

Charge-transfer absorption is important because it produces very large absorbances, providing for a much more sensitive analytical method. One important example of a charge-transfer complex is that of o-phenanthroline with Fe +, the UV/Vis spectrum for which is shown in Figure 10.17. Charge-transfer absorption in which the electron moves from the ligand to the metal also is possible. 

Apart from the biological implications, aspects of the chemistry of macrocyclic ligands are of relevance to a diverse number of other areas. Indeed, there has been a remarkable expansion of research involving these other areas during recent times. Many of the developments impinge on topics such as metal-ion catalysis, organic synthesis, metal-ion discrimination, and analytical methods, as well as on a number of potential industrial, medical and other applications. 

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The properties of NHC ligands will be discussed before presenting the applications of NHC complexes, e.g., in homogeneous catalysis, since the profound understanding of these properties certainly helped in predicting their behavior in these applications. The results obtained from various analytical methods can be summarized as follows. 

Metal ions, especially transition metal ions, form coloured complexes with chelating ligands that are the basis of the analytical methods and indicators for these ions that have been used for many decades. " The term metallochromism has been apphed to this phenomenon, and hence metallochromic indicators. Typical bidentate ligands are dimethylglyoxime, 1,2-dihydoxybenzenes and 1-hydroxyanthraquinones, 8-... 

Contemporary analytical methods (see Campbell, 1996) permit the ligand binding sites and the conformational changes they produce on the native protein to be identified. Even with proteins which have not been isolated but with amino acid sequences predicted from DNA studies, searching data banks allows comparisons with proteins whose structure and function are already known. 

Early in the development of these analytical methods, it was realized that the dithiolate groups of both tdt and qdt were sensitive to oxidation and that qdt was light sensitive (14, 25). Oxidative and photoinduced decomposition of the ligand increases background interference in metal analysis. Where it is possible to use Zn(tdt)2 2, the background absorbance is substantially reduced relative to an analysis using tdt (see Scheme 1) (13, 14, 16, 25). 

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