Metal nitrosyls structure

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BONDING IN METAL NITROSYLS STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY (THE ENEMARK-FELTHAM FORMALISM)... 

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Principles of structure, bonding and reactivity for metal nitrosyl complexes. J. H. Enemark and R. D. Feltham, Coord. Chem. Rev., 1974,13, 339-406 (126). 

Carter, O. L., McPhail, A. T. Sim, G. A. (1967) Metal-carbonyl and metal-nitrosyl complexes. Part V. The crystal and molecular structure of the tricarbonylchromium derivative of methyl benzoate, J. Chem. Soc. A, 1619-1626. 

The syntheses, structures and properties of wide varieties of metal nitrosyl complexes have been well documented [4, 5, 20-23]. However, the bulk of the complexes reviewed previously are of academic interest and only a few of these metal nitrosyl complexes have been considered as biologically effective NO donors. It was observed that the metal nitrosyls with significant NO+ character are subject to attack from a variety of nucleophiles and have hypertensive properties. This could be due to the strong trans- labilizing effect of NO. In contrast, the metal nitrosyl compounds with the general formula [M(CN)5NO]n, where the NO ligand was either neutral (for M = Co) or anionic (for M = Cr) showed no vasodilatory effect [24]. 

Nitrosyl-Metal Complexes. —Reasonable structures of metal-nitrosyl. .. + ... 

The NO+ and NO- modes of coordination differ by two electrons in terms of formal charge. Interconversion of these two bonding modes becomes feasible when the bound metal ion possesses two complementary oxidation states. It has been proposed that this interconversion, which corresponds to an intramolecular redox reaction, represents a unique and facile way to achieve coordinative unsaturation at the metal center with the nitrosyl acting as an electron pair reservoir (201). Interconversion of linear and bent nitrosyls has been reported in the unusual complex Ru(NO)2C1-(PPh3)2+ that possesses one linear and one bent nitrosyl, structure (39) (202). 

The symmetry of transformation (107) is identical to that of the alkyl car-bonyl-to-acyl conversion, (5), and therefore the difference in the propensities of these insertions to occur must relate to differences in the orbital energetics of the two processes. Since the metal-nitrosyl jr-interaction is a dominant feature of the electronic structure in NO+ complexes, and since it will be weakened by the formation of a nitroso species, one can expect (107) to be correspondingly less favorable than acyl formation in (5). If reaction (107) does occur, however, one can readily envisage tautomerism of the nitroso ligand to an oxime. The reactive nature of the oxime may then create difficulties in the identification and isolation of organonitrogen products, and indeed, this may have obscured general observation of transformation (107) in the past. 

It may be noted that Cr(NO)4 is the only known homoleptic metal nitrosyl complex. It is isoelectronic with Ni(CO)4 and similarly has a tetrahedral structure, with a very short Cr—N distance (1.763 A). Claims for Co(NO)3, Fe(NO)4, and Ru(NO)4 have never been confirmed. 

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