Nickel-macrocycle complex square planar

It has square planar coordination (Pd-N 2.010-2.017 A) similar to the value of 2.009 A in the tetraphenylporphyrin analogue, prepared by a similar route. As with nickel, macrocycle complexes can be made by in situ template... 

SlOO proteins, calcium binding, 46 451-456 Spruhtrocken process, 4 26 Square-planar complexes, 4 157-164 octahedral, compared, 4 162-174 in solution, 34 270-271 Square-planar iridium complexes, 44 295, 297 Square-planar nickel macrocyclic complexes equilibrium with octahedral species, 44 116-118... 

In contrast to nickel(II) complexes with saturated tetraaza macrocycles, which exhibit a variety of coordination numbers and geometries, the ligands being in either a planar or a folded coordination, the majority of the complexes formed by unsaturated tetraaza macrocycles are square planar. Few six-coordinate complexes have been prepared with 14- and 16-membered macrocycles. It is expected that imino groups present in the chelate rings reduce the possibility of the folded coordination of the macrocycles and the conformational possibilities of the chelate rings. 

Tinnemans et al.132 have examined the photo(electro)chemical and electrochemical reduction of C02 using some tetraazamacrocyclic Co(II) and Ni(II) complexes as catalysts. CO and H2 were the products. Pearce and Pletcher133 have investigated the mechanism of the reduction of C02 in acetonitrile-water mixtures by using square planar complexes of nickel and cobalt with macrocyclic ligands in solution as catalysts. CO was the reduction product with no significant amounts of either formic or oxalic acids... 

Macrocyclic N-donor ligands. Nickel complexes of macrocyclic ligands have been studied by cyclic voltammetry, and the irreversible or quasi-reversible couples Ni" L Ni L Ni L have been established. The structure of (124) has been reported and the co-ordination is essentially square-planar with a slight tetrahedral distortion. The reaction of [Ni(pn)3] with... 

Steric constraints dictate that reactions of organohalides catalysed by square planar nickel complexes cannot involve a cw-dialkyl or diaryl Ni(iii) intermediate. The mechanistic aspects of these reactions have been studied using a macrocyclic tetraaza-ligand [209] while quantitative studies on primary alkyl halides used Ni(n)(salen) as catalyst source [210]. One-electron reduction affords Ni(l)(salen) which is involved in the catalytic cycle. Nickel(l) interacts with alkyl halides by an outer sphere single electron transfer process to give alkyl radicals and Ni(ii). The radicals take part in bimolecular reactions of dimerization and disproportionation, react with added species or react with Ni(t) to form the alkylnickel(n)(salen). Alkanes are also fonned by protolysis of the alkylNi(ii). 

Macrocyclic complexes (continued) nickel(II), 44 93-94 eatalysis, 44 119-125 configurational isomerization, 44 126 electrochemical properties, 44 112-113 electronic absorption spectra, 44 108-112 reactions, 44 118-119 square-planar and octahedral species, 44 116-118... 

The square-planar Ni(II) complex of an anionic macrocyclic ligand, 21, was prepared from the template reaction of 3,3 -(ethylenebis(imino-methylidene)bis(2,4-pentanedionato)nickel(II) with 1,3-diamino-2-pro-panol [Eq. (10)]. The uncoordinated -OH group reacted smoothly with acylating agents, resulting in -COPh and -COCH3 (28). 

The indirect electrochemical reduction of alkyl halides is also possible by use of nickel(I) complexes which may be obtained by cathodic reduction of square planar Ni(n)-complexes of macrocyclic tetradentate ligands (Table 7, No. 10, 11) 2 4-248) Comparable to the Co(I)- and Ni(O)-complexes, the Ni(I)-species reacts with the alkyl halide unter oxidative addition to form an organo nickel(III) compound. The stability of the new nickel-carbon bond dominates the overall behavior of the system. If the stability is low, the alkyl group is lost in form of the radical and the original Ni(II)-complex is regenerated. A large number of regenerative cycles is the result. 

Most of the nickel(l) complexes are four-coordinate, either tetrahedral (phosphine and arsine complexes) or square planar (macrocyclic and dithiolene complexes), but five-coordinate complexes are also easily formed in the presence of tetradentate tripodal ligands. 

The tetrathia macrocycles containing up to 13-membered chelate rings are too small to encircle the nickel(II) atom in a square-planar chelation like tetraaza macrocycles do, and give rise to dinuclear complexes. In contrast, a planar chelation was found with the 14-membered macrocycle l,4,8,ll-[S4]-14-ane.1967... 

Macrocycles with 14-16-membered chelate rings all encircle both high-spin and low-spin nickel(II) in the solid compounds. With anions which have coordination tendency, e.g. halides, pseudohalides and in some cases NOJ, trans octahedral paramagnetic complexes are obtained which are often blue or violet. With anions such as C104, PF6 and BF4 (and I, in some cases) which show little tendency to coordinate, square planar diamagnetic complexes are obtained which are generally yellow. 

The properties of nickel(II) complexes with unsaturated macrocycles which contain pyridyl groups are included in a very comprehensive review article.2626 The complexes are usually square planar with the exceptions of the trans octahedral NiX2(CR)2743 (CR = 2,12-dimethyl-3,7,ll,17-tetraazabicyclo[11.3.1]heptadeca-l(17),2,ll,13,l5-pentaene) and of the diamagnetic square pyramidal NiBr(CR)]Br-H20 (381).2747 The diamagnetic complexes Ni(CR)(C104)2 give rise to square planar octahedral equilibria in coordinating solvents,2744,2746 whereas... 

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