Molybdenum complexes nitrogen ligands

Jonas and co-workers have pointed out that often a compromise must be found between sensitivity and resolution in NMR spectroscopy [76]. Line narrowing is optimum in regions of low supercritical fluid density (where the viscosity is low), but then the solubility of compounds is also low. Sometimes, admixtures with small amounts of low-viscosity solvents such as acetone may be tried to obtain a reasonable concentration of the compounds studied, i.e. coordination compounds such as (R-N=CH)2Mo(CO)4. However, line widths for this compound decrease by a factor of about four to six when comparing benzene-dg solutions to supercritical CO2 (with 8% acetone-de). The dispersion of the nitrogen chemical shift ensures identification of coordinated ligands by using NMR, in the above molybdenum complex, where A5( n) = -36 ppm) [75]. 

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