Nitrosyl complexes bonding

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). 

In contrast, for the NO8- species the N—O bond is elongated, only slightly polarized, and the stretching frequency, vNO, decreases below 1850 cm-1. Such changes indicate that the activation consists in redistribution of the electron and spin densities within the M—NO unit, which accumulates on the nitrogen atom. Among the first series TMI, the oxidative adsorption is less common and includes only the tj1 CuNO] 11 and 171 3CrNO 6 adducts. The mechanistic implications of the electronic structures for both type of the nitrosyl complexes are discussed in the next section. 

Several Ru(III) salen complexes of the type Ruin(salen)(X)(NO) (X=C1-, ONO-, H20 salen = N,AP-bis(salicylidene)-ethylenediamine dianion) have been examined as possible photochemical NO precursors (19). Photo-excitation of the Rum(salen)(NO)(X) complex labilizes NO to form the respective solvento species Ruin(salen)(X)(Sol). The kinetics of the subsequent back reactions to reform the nitrosyl complexes (e.g. Eq. (8)) were studied as a function of the nature of the solvent (Sol) and reaction conditions. The reaction rates are dramatically dependent on the identity of Sol, with values of kNO (298 K, X = C1-) varying from 5 x 10-4 M-1 s-1 in acetonitrile to 4 x 107 M-1 s-1 in toluene, a much weaker electron donor. In this case, Rum Sol bond breaking clearly... 

Method (i) is a route commonly utilized in monometal nitrosyl complexes. The nitrosyl ligand may function as (formally) a three-electrop donor (NO+) with a linear bonding mode, or as (formally) a one-electron donor (NO ) with a bent (—120°) M-N-0 arrangement. Conversion of the M-NO system to a M-NO system has two effects. First, it increases the metal oxidation state by two second, it generates a vacant coordination site. The dinitrosyl cluster Os3(CO)8(NO)2, which has... 

Nitrosyl complexes are of two types, depending on the orientation of the NO group with respect to the metal atom. In a linear complx, the M—N—O bond angle is... 

Yonetoni and co-workers (1972) have shown that hemoglobin and myoglobin form nitrosyl complexes with different bond angles at 77 K and at room temperature. The high-temperature species has less g tensor anisotropy (g = 2.03, gy = 1.98-1.99) and poorly resolved hyperfine splitting. Addition of glycerol at high concentrations prevented the transition between these forms. 

This picture can qualitatively account for the g tensor anisotropy of nitrosyl complexes in which g = 2.08, gy = 2.01, and g == 2.00. However, gy is often less than 2 and is as small as 1.95 in proteins such as horseradish peroxidase. To explain the reduction in g from the free electron value along the y axis, it is necessary to postulate delocalization of the electron over the molecule. This can best be done by a complete molecular orbital description, but it is instructive to consider the formation of bonding and antibonding orbitals with dy character from the metal orbital and a p orbital from the nitrogen. The filled orbital would then contribute positively to the g value while admixture of the empty orbital would decrease the g value. Thus, the value of gy could be quite variable. The delocalization of the electron into ligand orbitals reduces the occupancy of the metal d/ orbital. This effectively reduces the coefficients of the wavefunction components which account for the g tensor anisotropy hence, the anisotropy is an order of magnitude less than might be expected for a pure ionic d complex in which the unpaired electron resides in the orbital. 

When oxidized NiR was put in contact with NO, the FenNO + intermediate was directly observed by FTIR spectroscopy (vnc> = 1910 cm-1) (52). This agrees with similar values of the stretching frequency measured for related ferri-hemes (24). The high values (compared to the ferro-hemes), together with the short N O distances (1.63 1.65 A) are consistent with a multiple bond, and indeed support the FeIINO + description, as generally accepted for NP and other classical nitrosyl complexes. 

Several nitrosyl complexes have been prepared by the reaction of nitrosyl chloride with anionic carbonyls. Thus, [W(CO)5Cl]- reacts with NOC1395 to give [W(CO)4(NO)Cl] while [W(NO)Cl2L] and [W(NO)2ClL] (L = RB(Pz)3) were prepared from [LW(CO)3]- with variable amounts of NOC1. [W2(CO)8CL,] also reacts with NOQ to give in addition to [W(NO)2Cl2] the mononitrosyl [W(NO)Cl3]393 which exhibits only one v(NO) bond at 1590 cm-1. 

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