Nickel, poly ligands

Properties of nickel poly(pyrazol-l-yl)borate complexes such as solubility, coordination geometry, etc., can be controlled by appropriate substituent groups on the pyrazol rings, in particular in the 3- and 5-positions. Typical complexes are those of octahedral C symmetry (192)°02-604 and tetrahedral species (193). In the former case, two different tris(pyrazolyl)borate ligands may be involved to give heteroleptic compounds.602,603 Substituents in the 5-position mainly provide protection of the BH group. Only few representative examples are discussed here. 

The family of poly(pyrazol-l-yl)borates has been widely used as supporting ligands in nickel coordination chemistry.556,557 Complex (191) is an example, where unusual cysteine coordination is achieved at a tris(pyrazolylborate)nickel(II) template.601 (191) undergoes rapid reaction with molecular oxygen to presumably form a sulfinate. 

The number of nickel(U) complexes with mono-, bi- and poly-dentate ligands containing tertiary phosphines as a donor group is very large and increases day by day while complexes with tertiary arsines are less numerous and those with stibines are rarer still. The number of nickel(II) complexes with mixed donor ligands containing N, O and S donor atoms besides P or As is also very large. 

The Schiff bases have contributed to a large extent to the development of the coordination chemistry of nickel(II), particularly those obtained by the condensation of salicylaldehyde with various mono- and poly-dentate amines. A large number of nickel(II) complexes have been synthesized with these ligands exhibiting all of the possible coordination geometries, spin states and spectromagnetic properties. The early complexes of nickel(II) with different salicylal-dimines have been covered extensively in a number of review articles.2246-2252... 

Table 97 Nickel(ll) Complexes with Bi- and Poly-dentate Schiff Base Ligands Derived from Salicylaldehyde or Related Aldehydes and Various Amines... 

Applications of the Marcus theory to reactions of nickel(III) species with Fe2+ and V02+ aquo ions 158) lead to values of 10 3-10-2 M l sec-1 for Fe3+/2+ and 10-103 M-1 sec-1 for VO(OH)2+/+. These rate constants are larger than for the corresponding data derived using poly (pyridine) derivatives where there may be a contribution from the n -n interaction of the ligand orbitals. 

In contrast to nickel, simple homoleptic Tpx or Bpx, and heteroleptic pyrazolylborate-halide complexes of palladium and platinum are largely unexplored. Indeed, while for 3d metals these are "standard" targets for each successive generation of poly(pyrazolyl)borate ligand, for the... 

Optically active l,l -binaphthols are among the most important chiral ligands of a variety of metal species. Binaphthol-aluminum complexes have been used as chiral Lewis acid catalysts. The l,T-binaphthyl-based chiral ligands owe their success in a variety of asymmetric reactions to the chiral cavity they create around the metal center [107,108]. In contrast with the wide use of these binaphthyls, the polymer-supported variety has been less popular. The optically active and sterically regular poly(l,l -bi-naphthyls) 96 have been prepared by nickel-catalyzed dehalogenating polycondensation of dibromide monomer 95 (Sch. 7) [109] and used to prepare the polybinaphthyl aluminum(III) catalyst 97 this had much greater catalytic activity than the corresponding monomeric catalyst when used in the Mukaiyama aldol reaction (Eq. 29). Unfortunately no enantioselectivity was observed in the aldol reaction. 

Halogen oxidation of planar complexes, particularly of the nickel triads that contain bidentate glyoximes or macrocyclic ligands, such as, phthalocyanines, substituted porphyrins, or tetraazaannulenes, leads to highly conducting substances that may possess chains of metal atoms as well as chains of poly halides E... 

The 2-pentenenitrile, 2-methyl-3-butenenitrile, and methylglutaronitrile in Figure 1.1 are by-products of this reaction sequence. duPont is still studying the phosphines used as ligands for the nickel in an effort to find one bulky enough to favor terminal addition only.214 Reduction of the various nitriles leads to the amines in Figure 1.1, including the cyclic ones. The 2,3-dichloro-l,3-buta-diene is probably a by-product in the synthesis of 2-chloro-1,3-butadiene used to make Neoprene rubber. duPont also polymerizes acrylonitrile to prepare poly (acrylonitrile) fiber (Orion). Acetonitrile is obtained as a by-product of the ammoxidation of propylene to produce acrylonitrile (reaction 1.20). 

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