Macrocyclic effect nickel complexes

Macrocycles may also promote the formation of less common coordination geometries for particular metal ions because of increased macrocyclic ring strain on coordination. Such an effect is illustrated by the variation in the structures of the nickel complexes of the 14-, 16-, 18-, and 20-mem-bered tropocoronand macrocycles of type (14) (Imajo, Nakanishi,... 

Table 6.1 summarizes the thermodynamic parameters relating to the macrocyclic effect for the high-spin Ni(n) complexes of four tetraaza-macrocyclic ligands and their open-chain analogues (the open-chain derivative which yields the most stable nickel complex was used in each case) (Micheloni, Paoletti Sabatini, 1983). Clearly, the enthalpy and entropy terms make substantially different contributions to complex stability along the series. Thus, the small macrocyclic effect which occurs for the first complex results from a favourable entropy term which overrides an unfavourable enthalpy term. Similar trends are apparent for the next two systems but, for these, entropy terms are larger and a more pronounced macrocyclic effect is evident. For the fourth (cyclam) system, the considerable macrocyclic effect is a reflection of both a favourable entropy term and a favourable enthalpy term. 

The nickel ) complex of 92 cannot be prepared directly via the template method, but can be prepared by a transmetallation procedure. Synthesis of the macrocycle in the presence of one of the metal ions known to be effective as a template is followed by a metal exchange process in solution to insert the nickel ) ion. This cation exhibits a strong preference for the square planar, square pyramidal, and octahedral geometries 79). Thus the failure of the nickel ) cation to behave as a template ion in the synthesis of 92 is probably due to the disinclination of the metal to accommodate the pentagonal array of donor nitrogen atoms necessary for reaction to occur. 

The prototypical photochemical system for CO2 reduction contains a photosensitizer (or photocatalyst) to capture the photon energy, an electron relay catalyst (that might be the same species as the photosensitizer) to couple the photon energy to the chemical reduction, an oxidizable species to complete the redox cycle and CO2 as the substrate. Figure 1 shows a cartoon of the photochemical CO2 reduction system. An effective photocatalyst must absorb a significant part of the solar spectrum, have a long-lived excited state and promote the activation of small molecules. Both organic dyes and transition metal complexes have been used as photocatalysts for CO2 reduction. In this chapter, CO2 reduction systems mediated by cobalt and nickel macrocycles and rhenium complexes will be discussed. 

Another celebrated example of the template effect is the synthesis of crown ethers by Pedersen [11], but it was Busch who first intentionally used templates in synthesis and who first articulated the concept of the template effect in the 1960s [12]. Busch used the reaction of a nickel(Il) dithiolate complex 7 with l,2-bis(bromomethyl)benzene 8 to illustrate his ideas (Scheme 1-3) [13]. Once one end of the l,2-bis(bromomethyl)ben-zene has reacted with the nickel complex, the nickel template induces the reactive ends of the intermediate 9 to come into close proximity and favors cyclization. The metal template allows the synthesis of a metallated macrocycle 10 the free ligand cannot be prepared by the reaction of l,2-bis(bromomethyl)benzene with the unbound thiol (in the absence of a template other cyclic and acyclic products are formed). 

Tetraaza macrocycles nickel complexes, S Tetragonality copper(II) complexes, 603 Theophylline cadmium complexes, 957 Thermolysin zinc, 1006 Thiabendazole metal complexes, 951 Tollen s reagent, 780 Transcription DNA polymerases, 1007 Trans effect... 

Nitrogen-containing ligands are the most effective systems to stabilize nickel(III) and nickel(IV). The most studied complexes are those formed with macrocyclic ligands. The deprotonated 0=CNH— group present in amides and peptides has also been found to be effective in stabilizing nickel(UI) as well as the deprotonated oxime =C=N—O group. 

One of the most spectacular and useful template reactions is the Curtis reaction , in which a new chelate ring is formed as the result of an aldol condensation between a methylene ketone or inline and an imine salt. The initial example of this reaction was the formation of a macrocyclic nickel(II) complex from tris(l,2-diaminoethane)nickel(II) perchlorate and acetone (equation 53).182 The reaction has been developed by Curtis and numerous other workers and has been reviewed.183 In mechanistic terms there is some circumstantial evidence to suggest that the nucleophile is an uncoordinated aoetonyl carbanion which adds to a coordinated imine to yield a coordinated amino ketone (equation 54). If such a mechanism operates then the template effect is largely, if not wholly, thermodynamic in nature, as described for imine formation. Such a view is supported by the fact that the free macrocycle salts can be produced by acid catalysis alone. However, this fact does not... 

Two interlocked macrocyclic ligands as in (15) are topologically related to the catenanes, whence the name catenand derives.34,186 187 These macrocycles complex a variety of metals, presumably in a tetrahedral geometry.34,186 The stabilizing effect of the catenand topology is evident in the observed redox stability of the nickel(I) complex186 as well as the reluctance toward demetallation, observed for the copper(I) complexes.187... 

Simple macrocyclic quadridentate complexes can be synthesized by template reactions from ethers derived from salicylaldehyde and diamines in the presence of appropriate metal ions such as nickel(II) (equation 3).35>36 However, these reactions can also be carried out quite effectively in the absence of metal ions to yield the free ligands, which can be obtained by hydrolysis of the complexes. An iron(II) macrocyclic quinquedentate chelate of this type has been produced by template synthesis (equation 4).37... 

Model compound studies have shown the importance of porphyrin macrocycle basicity, resulting from electron-withdrawing substituents and metal ligands, on the reducibility and susceptibility of the central metal to reaction. Similar insight into the differences in relative basicity of vanadium- and nickel-containing complexes found in petroleum may therefore be valuable in rationalizing the observed effects and predicting demetallation activity. 

In many cases it is possible to utilise the hole size effects for the synthesis of specific types of macrocycle. Thus, a tetradentate macrocycle (6.33) is expected to be obtained from a template condensation of 2,6-diacetylpyridine with 1,5,9-triazanonane in the presence of small, first-row transition metal dications. The hole size of 6.33 closely matches the size of these metal ions. This is indeed what happens when Ni2+ (r = 0.8 A) is used as a template for the condensation and the nickel(n) complex of 6.33 is obtained in good yield (Fig. 6-32). However, when Ag+ (r = 1.0 A) is used as a template, the metal ion... 

What should we do to observe a three-dimensional template effect First, we should choose a reaction type that we know to be effective for the formation of macrocyclic ligands and extend the methodology to a kinetically inert cP or d6 metal centre. Let us reconsider the reaction, that we first encountered in Fig. 6-11. In this reaction, a dioximato complex reacted with BF3 to give the nickel(n) complex of a dianionic macrocycle (Fig. 7-1). 

The use of metal ions as templates for macrocycle synthesis has an obvious relevance to the understanding of how biological molecules are formed in vivo. The early synthesis of phthalocyanins from phthalonitrile in the presence of metal salts (89) has been followed by the use of Cu(II) salts as templates in the synthesis of copper complexes of etioporphyrin-I (32), tetraethoxycarbonylporphyrin (26), etioporphyrin-II (78), and coproporphyrin-II (81). Metal ions have also been used as templates in the synthesis of corrins, e.g., nickel and cobalt ions in the synthesis of tetradehydrocorrin complexes (64) and nickel ions to hold the two halves of a corrin ring system while cycliza-tion was effected (51), and other biological molecules (67, 76, 77). 

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