Nickel complexes solvent effect

The chemical shift differences of the diastereotopic hydrogens are listed in Table 17 they depend strongly on solvent effects, as expected for an ionic product. They are in the range of 8 = 0.01 -0.1, well suited for measurement of the enantiomeric purity of the phosphanes. An alternative method for the measurement of Horner phosphanes is by 13C-NMR spectroscopy of diastereomeric complexes formed with [>/3-( + )-0 7 ,57 )-pinenyl]nickel bromide dimer73. 

When the apparently penta-coordinated diarsine complexes just described are dissolved in solvents more polar than nitrobenzene, they tend to dissociate into halide ions and bivalent cations, thus becoming 2 1 electrolytes (119). The effect is most marked with the platinum compounds. It has been shown that solvation effects might be less with platinum than with palladium, and so, other things in the equilibria being equal, it can also be concluded that the bonding of further ligands by a square-planar complex is much weaker with platinum than with palladium. Square-planar nickel complexes are of course the most ready to take up further ligands. 

It was shown that room-temperature molten salts derived from the combination of 1,3-dialkylimidazolium chloride and A1C13 can be used as solvents in two-phase catalytic dimerization of propene to give hexenes catalyzed by Ni(II) compounds (125). The effects of phosphane ligands coordinated to nickel and operating variables were also investigated (126). The dimerization products separate as an organic layer above the molten salt. This reaction has been carried out with n-butenes as the reactant and cationic nickel complex catalysts dissolved in organochloroaluminate liquids (127). 

The magnetic moments rise only slightly at elevated temperatures (see Table 5), which led the authors to conclude that some population of the higher sT2(Oh) state is possible. No clear distinction can be made as to which of the influencing factors, viz. electronic effects, steric hindrance, and crystal solvent effects, plays the dominant role here, because all of these are operative to some extent. Data from the UV-vis spectra of the nickel(II) complexes indicate that the ligands have field strengths in the iron(II) crossover region. 

The cross-coupling of organozinc compounds has been accomplished using a number of metal enolate complexes, namely Rh(acac)(H2C=CH2)2 (6) , Co(acac)3 (30) °, Ni(acac)2 (47) , Li(acac) (107) and Cr(acac)3 (108) . For instance, complex 47 proved to be an extremely effective catalyst system for the Negishi cross-coupling of arylzinc halides (109) with aryl (110), heteroaryl and alkenyl halides, triflates and nonaflates to give the corresponding biaryl compounds (111) (equation 30). The solvent played an important role in these reactions and optimal conditions were found with 8 1 mixtures of THF and A-ethylpyrrolidinone (nep). Only 0.05 mol% of the nickel complex... 

The cationic nickel complex [ /3-allylNi(PR3)]+, already described by Wilke etal. [21], as an efficient catalyst precursor for alkene dimerization when dissolved in chlorinated organic solvents. It proved to be very active in acidic chloroaluminate ionic liquids. In spite of the strong potential Lewis acidity of the medium, a similar phosphine effect is observed. Biphasic regioselective dimerization of propylene into 2,3-dimethylbutenes can then be achieved in chloroaluminates. However, there is a competition for the phosphine between the soft nickel complex and the hard aluminum chloride coming from the dissociation of polynuclear chloroaluminate anions. Aromatic hydrocarbons, when added to the system, can act as competitive bases thus preventing the de-coordination of phosphine ligand from the nickel complex [22 b]. Performed in a continuous way, in IFP pilot plant facilities, dimerization of propene and/or butenes with this biphasic system (Difasol process) compares... 

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A recent interesting application of solvent effects has been the use of optically-active solvents in the determination of the optical purity and the absolute configuration of solutes. Work so far has centred on resonances and organic solutes, covering various alcohols, amines, sulphoxides, a-hydroxy- and a-amino-acids, and epoxides (the solvent here being an optically active nematic phase ). There are also reports on disymmetric nickel(II) complexes, and the use of resonances. ... 

Few examples of this mechanism have been clearly demonstrated because of tfie difficulty in establishing that this path occurs from experimental data. The most well-established examples are reactions of nickel complexes with aryl halides Studied by Tsou and Kochi. The rate of the reaction of Ni(PEt3)jWith aryl halides was shown to be first order in nickel and in ArX and retarded by added PEtj, Ortho-methyl substituents had little effect on the rate. Because of the lack of steric effect, electron transfer was proposed to occur after formation of a TT-complex between Ni(PEt3)j and ArX, rather than by direct insertion of the metal into the carbon-halogen bond by a three-centered mechanism. Moreover, the products of the reaction included the Ni(I) species L3NiX and arene. Tliese products are likely to result from the pathway in Scheme 7.4, involving electron transfer from Ni(0) to the aryl halide and escape of the aryl radical from the solvent cage. Other studies of oxidative additions of aryl halides and sulfonates to Ni(0) complexes have been reported. " ... 

Complex Formation Labile Cations. Solvent effects on reactivity in the formation of complexes of metal(n) cations with unidentate ligands have been reviewed, with special reference to magnesium(n) and to the solvents methanol, acetonitrile, DMF, and DMSO. There has been controversy over the mechanism of reaction of thiocyanate with nickel(n) in DMSO, with supporters of the usual Eigen-Wilkins la mechanism and of a D mechanism. The most recent investigators of this reaction report rate constants and activation parameters and favour the la mechanism. There has been further discussion of the mechanism of the reaction between nickel(n) and bipy in DMSO an earlier suggestion that the rate-determining step is ring closure is not supported by recent observations. Rate constants for the reaction of acetate, of other carboxylates, and of pada with nickel(ii) in several non-aqueous solvents have been determined. 

THFsolvent effect reflects the coordinating ability CgHe > THF > C2H4CI2 of these solvents then a solvent such as benzene will compete with the diene for the monomeric nickel species. The allyl complex [Nil(/i -allyl)]2 also catalyses the dimerization of styrene at 0 °C stereospecifically to rra/7j-l,3-diphenylbut-l-ene. The rate law found for this reaction is ... 

Solvento-complexes are effective reagents for the preparation of coordination compounds. For example, the first syntheses of nickel(II) diaminates and triaminates were performed with water as the reaction medium. The reactions were complete within several hours and the resulting compounds contained water of crystallization in various amounts depending on the techniques used for drying the samples.6 7 a similar reaction6/7 has been performed with ethanol as the solvent, Eq. 4.1 ... 

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