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The nucleophilicity of coordinated sulfur in the complex [Cr(SCH2CH2NH2)(en)2]2+ towards Mel (equation 51) has been measured in DMF/H20 and compared with sulfur nucleophilicities in thiolatocobalt(III) systems.975 As in the case of the H202 oxidations, the nucleophilicity of thiolate coordinated to chromium(III) is only slightly less than when it is coordinated to cobalt(III), implying that nucleophilic attack by coordinated sulfur does not involve any appreciable distortion in the first coordination sphere of the metal. 

Under these conditions a proton is easily released. The nucleophilicity of coordinated water is, of course, decreased with respect to free water, owing to the decreased electronic charge on the oxygen atom, but a significant concentration of M—OH species may exist in neutral solution. In turn, the coordinated hydroxide is a slightly poorer nucleophile than the free OH ion, but better than water. On the basis of recent MO calculations, the order of nucleophilicity for solvent-derived species can be summarized as follows ... 

The enhanced nucleophilicity of coordinated CO2 in complex [Fe(C02)(depe)2] allowed reaction with organotin chlorides. In the resulting carboxylate complexes 31, the CO2 unit links the two metals via a fi-ij C) if(P,0 ) bonding mode. Although the X-ray data of 31b exclude the contribution of a carbenoid form in the solid state, chemical shifts of IX-CO2 in the NMR spectra indicate a borderline case between oxycarbonyl and dioxycarbene character... 

A common property of coordinated alkenes is their susceptibility to attack by nucleophiles such as OH , OMe , MeC02, and Cl , and it has long been known that Zeise s salt is slowly attacked by non-acidic water to give MeCHO and Pt metal, while corresponding Pd complexes are even more reactive. This forms the basis of the Wacker process (developed by J. Smidt and his colleagues at Wacker Chemie, 1959-60) for converting ethene (ethylene) into ethanal (acetaldehyde) — see Panel overleaf. 

The most favorable coordination sites in thiophenes are the C2C3 and C4C5 double bonds ( -coordination, 38). This type of coordination greatly enhances the nucleophilic power of the sulfur atom, which then gives rise to two new modes of binding the metal atoms, as in the V, S-p.2-, 42, and V, S-p.3-species, 43. 

Organometallic chemistry of pyrrole is characterized by a delicate balance of the ti N)- and -coordination modes. Azacymantrene is an illustration of the considerable nucleophilicity of the heteroatom. However, azaferrocene can be alkylated at C2 and C3 sites. Ruthenium and osmium, rhodium, and iridium chemistry revealed the bridging function of pyrroles, including zwitterionic and pyrrolyne complex formation. The ti (CC) coordination of osmium(2- -) allows versatile derivatizations of the heteroring. 

Phospholes and analogs offer a wide variety of coordination modes and reactivity patterns, from the ti E) (E = P, As, Sb, Bi) through ri -dienic to ri -donor function, including numerous and different mixed coordination modes. Electrophilic substitution at the carbon atoms and nucleophilic properties of the phosphorus atom are well documented. In the ri -coordinated species, group V heteroles nearly acquire planarity and features of the ir-delocalized moieties (heterocymantrenes and -ferrocenes). 

Neutral transition-metal complexes that are not fully coordinatively saturated possess nucleophile metal centers capable of coordinating to electrophiles. On the other hand, group-IIIB halides serve as typical electron-pair acceptors and are, therefore, able to interact coordinatively with basic metal complexes. 

Kinetic studies have been made of the reaction of CpMo(CO)j R (R = Me, Et, CH2Ph, and CH2CH=CH2) (48, 80, 81) and 7r-X2C9H5Mo(CO)jMe (X = H or OMe) (108) with a variety of P donor ligands L. Solvents employed ranged from nonpolar hexane to polar THF and MeCN. Generally, the mechanism is very sensitive to the coordinating ability of the solvent and the nucleophilicity of L. 

The determination of the Concentrations in pyridine [N] which cause the coalescence of the signals of the diastereotopic groups of a 0.262 M solution methylneophyl-t-butyltin bromide (6) and of 0.332 M solution methylneophylphenyltin chloride (3) at 22 °C at respectively 60, 100 and 270 MHz shows12) that the k2 term is much smaller than the k3[N] term. From these results, it is clear that the inversion of the configuration of the metal atom of triorganotin halides is second-order in the nucleophile pyridine. An analogous rate equation has been found for the racemiza-tion of triorganosilicon halides 29), for which the activation entropy AS is about —50 e.u. Several mechanisms with increase of coordination number 30) can be proposed to account for this second order in the nucleophile 31) ... 

Trimethylphosphate, despite being neutral, is known to form the simple complex [Co(NH3)5(OP(OMe)3)]3+ this reacts with nucleophiles X" S2C)32, I and SCN in that order of reactivity to produce [Co(NH3)5(02P(OMe)2)]3+ and MeX up to 150-fold faster than in the absence of coordination.1008 Both hydroxide and water are ineffective in this reaction, with simple ligand hydrolysis occurring more rapidly than any reaction. 

Thiocarbamate (tc, RHNCSO-) is a monodentate ambidentate ligand, and both oxygen- and sulfur-bonded forms are known for the simple pentaamminecobalt(III) complexes. These undergo redox reactions with chromium(II) ion in water via attack at the remote O or S atom of the S- and O-bound isomers respectively, with a structural trans effect suggested to direct the facile electron transfer in the former.1045 A cobalt-promoted synthesis utilizing the residual nucleophilicity of the coordinated hydroxide in [Co(NH3)5(OH)]2+ in reaction with MeNCS in (MeO)3PO solvent leads to the O-bonded monothiocarbamate, which isomerizes by an intramolecular mechanism to the S-bound isomer in water.1046... 

Kostic et al. recently reported the use of various palladium(II) aqua complexes as catalysts for the hydration of nitriles.456 crossrefil. 34 Reactivity of coordination These complexes, some of which are shown in Figure 36, also catalyze hydrolytic cleavage of peptides, decomposition of urea to carbon dioxide and ammonia, and alcoholysis of urea to ammonia and various carbamate esters.420-424, 427,429,456,457 Qggj-jy palladium(II) aqua complexes are versatile catalysts for hydrolytic reactions. Their catalytic properties arise from the presence of labile water or other solvent ligands which can be displaced by a substrate. In many cases the coordinated substrate becomes activated toward nucleophilic additions of water/hydroxide or alcohols. New palladium(II) complexes cis-[Pd(dtod)Cl2] and c - Pd(dtod)(sol)2]2+ contain the bidentate ligand 3,6-dithiaoctane-l,8-diol (dtod) and unidentate ligands, chloride anions, or the solvent (sol) molecules. The latter complex is an efficient catalyst for the hydration and methanolysis of nitriles, reactions shown in Equation (3) 435... 

Alternatively, the transmetalation can be facilitated by increasing the nucleophilicity of the carbon nucleophile participating in the cross-coupling, which is most often done by increasing the electron density on the metal by coordination of extra anionic ligands. Two distinct approaches to nucleophilic activation are (i) the addition of appropriate Lewis bases to the reaction mixture (nucleophilic catalysis) or (ii) the use of a preformed, electron-rich, organo-metallic reagent with enhanced nucleophilicity. 

The enormous number of coordination compounds undergo many reactions, but a large number of reactions can be classified into a small number of reaction types. When one ligand replaces another, the reaction is called a substitution reaction. For example, when ammonia is added to an aqueous solution containing Cu2+, water molecules in the coordination sphere of the Cu2+ are replaced by molecules of NH3. Ligands are held to metal ions because they are electron pair donors (Lewis bases). Lewis bases are nucleophiles (see Chapter 9), so the substitution of one nucleophile for another is a nucleophilic substitution reaction. Such a reaction can be illustrated as... 

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