Manganese pentacarbonyl anion

Various metal-metal single o-bonded complexes have been obtained by the reaction of metal carbonyls with metal-carbon o-bonded porphyrins or by the reaction of metal carbonyl anions and chlorometalloporphyrins (Scheme 14). For example, the reaction of dimanganese carbonyl and methyl indium(III) porphyrin gives manganese pen-tacarbonyl indium porphyrin In(Por)Mn(CO)5. The same compound is isolated when chloroindium porphyrin is allowed to react with the manganese pentacarbonyl monoanion. Various iron, cobalt, tungsten, and molybdenum complexes have been prepared by these two methods. 

The chemistry of the metal carbonyl hydrides and metal carbonylates remained the principal research topic for Hieber until the 1960s. He mentioned in his account [25], that it was a particular pleasure for him that in his laboratory the first hydrido carbonyl complexes of the manganese group, HMn(CO)5 and HRe(CO)5, were prepared by careful addition of concentrated phosphoric acid to solid samples of the sodium salts of the [M(CO)5] anions, giving the highly volatile hydrido derivatives in nearly quantitative yield [45, 46]. In contrast to HCo(CO)4 and its rhodium and iridium analogues, the pentacarbonyl hydrido compounds of manganese and rhenium are thermally remarkably stable, and in... 

The decacarbonyls of manganese, technetium, and rhenium, of formula M2(CO)io, have terminal carbonyl groups and a metal-metal bond. The molecular symmetry is D d with the two M(CO)s fragments in a staggered conformation. The heterodinuclear decacarbonyl MnRe(CO)io is also known as obtained by the redox reaction of a rhenium pentacarbonyl halide with the pentacarbonylmanganate(-I) anion at room temperature (at 160 °C or higher, the heterodinuclear carbonyl tends to form the homodinuclear compounds with an equilibrium constant close to the statistical value ). The X-ray diffraction stndy of MnRe(CO)io has shown the Mn-Re distance of 2.909 A to be shorter than the sum of the covalent radii obtained from the homodinuclear compounds (Table 3). 

Vanhoye and coworkers [402] synthesized aldehydes by using the electrogenerated radical anion of iron pentacarbonyl to reduce iodoethane and benzyl bromide in the presence of carbon monoxide. Esters can be prepared catalytically from alkyl halides and alcohols in the presence of iron pentacarbonyl [403]. Yoshida and coworkers reduced mixtures of organic halides and iron pentacarbonyl and then introduced an electrophile to obtain carbonyl compounds [404] and converted alkyl halides into aldehydes by using iron pentacarbonyl as a catalyst [405,406]. Finally, a review by Torii [407] provides references to additional papers that deal with catalytic processes involving complexes of nickel, cobalt, iron, palladium, rhodium, platinum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, rhenium, tin, lead, zinc, mercury, and titanium. 

The phenyl derivative reacts more slowly than the methyl analogue, while the benzyl anion does not react to any appreciable extent. The effect of R on the rate of the insertion reaction is therefore once again similar to that observed in the case of the pentacarbonyl-hydrocarbyl derivatives of manganese(I) . 

Triiron dodecacarbonyl has been obtained by three different methods the action of heat on the iron carbonyl Fe2(CO)9, oxidation of the anion HFe(CO)4 by various oxidizing agents, and treatment of iron pentacarbonyl with triethylamine followed by acidification of the reaction mixture. The method described below is based on the oxidation of the anion HFe(C0)4 with manganese dioxide. 

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