Matrix low temperature

The vapour species produced by heating AS2O5 (see next paragraph) in vacuo have been isolated in low-temperature matrices and shown... 

The phosphine complex Ru(dmpe)2 has been studied in matrices [62], Ru(diphos)2 (diphos = depe, dppe, (QFs P F P Fs ) has similarly been formed by photolysis of Ru(diphos)2H2 in low-temperature matrices. They probably have square planar structures and undergo oxidative addition with cobalt, C2H4 and hydrogen [63]. 

Nonmetal-atom, matrix-isolation spectroscopy has proved useful in structure and isomer determination of stable, metal carbonyls. Fe(CO)4(NO) was investigated (157) in low-temperature matrices with CO enrichment, and it was demonstrated that the IR spectrum is consistent with C v symmetry (trigonal bipyramid with an equatorial NO), in agreement with X-ray studies (55). The work resolves the dis-... 

Co2(CO)8 has also been studied in low-temperature matrices (19,20), the photochemical behavior of which led to the identification of three isomeric forms of the dimer complex (19). Two of these are the accepted forms, 1 and 2, whereas the third has no bridging, CO ligands. The structure most... 

Nevertheless, a more traditional approach to the stabilization of carbenes and the investigation of their spectral properties deals with the direct generation of carbenes in low-temperature matrices, e.g. by the photolysis of diazo-compounds or ketenes. The method allows stabilization of carbenes in their ground electronic state, prevents intramolecular isomerization and also facilitates direct spectroscopic monitoring of their chemical transformations in low-temperature matrices. 

Sander and co-workers have also previously examined the effects of carbene spin state and philicity on the carboxylation reaction in low-temperature matrices. ... 

Using the pseudo-first-order equation A obsd = 0 + co2 [COiKwhere kcoi is the second-order rate constant for the reaction of carbene with CO2 and ko is the rate of carbene decay in the absence of CO2), solution-phase values of kcoi for phenylchlorocarbenes 9 and 12, and diphenylcarbenes 14 and 15 in dichloromethane were estimated (Table 4.1). (The concentration of CO2 in saturated dichloromethane solution at 25°C and 1 atm is 196mmol/L. ) The trend of these estimated second-order order rate constants agrees with that observed in low-temperature matrices by Sander and co-workers. ... 

Laser flash irradiation of diazofluorene in perdeuterated matrices, in contrast, gave severely nonexponential decay of the carbene spectra. Analyses of the products formed in the low-temperature matrices showed that, as with the EPR studies, the carbene was not undergoing D-abstraction. LFP of the diazo compound 36 in CFCl3-CF2BrCF2Br glasses gave linear first-order decays, and linear Arrhenius plots, which were attributed to classical Cl and Br abstractions. 

Considerable experimental and theoretical evidence indicates that ring expansions of singlet cyclopropylhalocarbenes (65) have minimal contributions from tunneling. Carbene 65 has been shown to be indefinitely stable in low temperature matrices. ... 

In the previous reviews,1 la,d f syntheses of many examples of transient silicon-oxygen double bond compounds such as MeHSi=0, Me2Si=0, H2Si=0 (2), (H0)HSi=0 (silanoic acid), and (H0)2Si=0 (silicic acid) have been described, and they are reportedly isolated as stable species in the low temperature matrices. However, the stabilization of this extremely reactive double bond species is very difficult, and no stable example of silanone (RR/Si=0) has been isolated until now even by the methods of thermodynamic or kinetic stabilization. 

The stability of metal ion-alkane adducts such as shown in Figure 11 remains an interesting question. The bonding in such systems can be regarded as intermolecular "agostic" interactions (46). Similar adducts between metal atoms and alkanes have been identified in low-temperature matrices (47). In addition, weakly associated complexes of methane and ethane with Pd and Pt atoms are calculated to be bound by approximately 4 kcal/mol (43). The interaction of an alkane with an ionic metal center may be characterized by a deeper well than in the case of a neutral species, in part due to the ion-polarization interaction. 

P(OEt), P(0 Pr) ) in n-heptane solution. There was previous evidence for the production of two intermediates tentatively identified as W(CO) L(S) (S = solvent), with L and S cis and trans to each other (49, 0). It has now proved possible to obtain firm identification of these two species in room temperature solution from their V(C-O) absorption spectra. It could be proved that their structures were indeed cis and trans W(CO) L by generating exactly the same species in low-temperature matrices. One noteworthy feature of the experiments is that, even with such a weakly coordinating solvent as heptane, the cis and trans intermediates do not interconvert on a millesecond timescale [.53]. 

Gillis, 1969 Baxendale and Rasburn, 1974 Baxendale and Wardman, 1971 Baxendale et al, 1971, 1973). However, it may be best to consider these cases as extensions of the trapped electron in low-temperature matrices. 

New formulas, new stoichiometries, new structures, new reactants, new reducing agents, new oxidizing agents, and new areas of chemical research will result from the studies of chemical reactions in low-temperature matrices. 

Studies of chemical reactions in low-temperature matrices have been supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Office, Durham, and from the Robert A. Welch Foundation. 

A variety of experimental methods has been used to study the thermal chemistry of the unsaturated iron fragments produced by photolysis. For example, regeneration of 1Fe(CO)s was observed upon heating low-temperature matrices in which Fe(CO)5 had been photolyzed (35). These condensed-phase reactions are rather complex, as in some cases, components of the inert matrix may form adducts Fe(C0)4L or Fe(CO)sL (L = N2, Xe, CH4), so that the reaction observed is not simply CO addition to an unsaturated iron tetracarbonyl fragment. The same reactions were studied in the gas phase, using flash... 

As has already been discussed (Section m.B.3) we were able to demonstrate that the three C3H2 isomers cyclopropenylidene (2), propargylene (36), and vinylidenecarbene (37), interconvert photochemically in low-temperature matrices. Unlike 36 vinylidenecarbene (37) was predicted to be a singlet.108-110 To aid the spectroscopic identification of S-37 we calculated (MP2/6-31G ) IR frequencies and intensities of this species.26 Comparison with the experimental IR spectrum (most intense band at 1952 cm-1) confirmed the allenic structure S-37. For T-37 a completely different IR spectrum was expected. An additional structural proof for S-37 was its reversible transformation into the other two C3H2 isomers S-2 and T-36. 

The mechanism of the insertion is not clear, however, since both carbenes have triplet ground states, an abstraction-recombination mechanism with radical pairs as intermediates is most likely. The only other triplet carbene that has been reported to insert into CH4 in low temperature matrices is methylene.89,90 However, in this case it is not completely clear if the insertion is a thermal or photochemical reaction. 

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