Coordination oxygen

Lateral density fluctuations are mostly confined to the adsorbed water layer. The lateral density distributions are conveniently characterized by scatter plots of oxygen coordinates in the surface plane. Fig. 6 shows such scatter plots of water molecules in the first (left) and second layer (right) near the Hg(l 11) surface. Here, a dot is plotted at the oxygen atom position at intervals of 0.1 ps. In the first layer, the oxygen distribution clearly shows the structure of the substrate lattice. In the second layer, the distribution is almost isotropic. In the first layer, the oxygen motion is predominantly oscillatory rather than diffusive. The self-diffusion coefficient in the adsorbate layer is strongly reduced compared to the second or third layer [127]. The data in Fig. 6 are qualitatively similar to those obtained in the group of Berkowitz and coworkers [62,128-130]. These authors compared the structure near Pt(lOO) and Pt(lll) in detail and also noted that the motion of water in the first layer is oscillatory about equilibrium positions and thus characteristic of a solid phase, while the motion in the second layer has more... 

It must be noted that the cyclic model fails to account for the role of the additional alkyllithium and diethylaluminum that are required in precise amounts to achieve high selectivity. A simple model that recognizes a possible role for the additional reagents suggests the intermediacy of an extended, noncyclic transition state G with the aldchydic oxygen coordinated to some undefined Lewis acidic species derived from the additional components of the reaction mixture26,44. Aggregates composed of enolate, alkyllithium and dialkylaluminum species are also possible. 

IR spectra of these complexes suggest that the ligands are coordinated by the oxygen atom. The magnetic non-equivalence of the methylene groups due to flanking by the sulphur is influenced seriously by the oxygen coordination to the tin atom. 

Electrochemical studies performed in the 7 x Cys-Aspl4 D. afri-canus Fdlll indicate that the reduced [3Fe-4S] center can react rapidly with Fe to form a [4Fe-4S] core that must include noncysteinyl coordination (101). The carboxylate side chain of Asp 14 was proposed as the most likely candidate, since this amino acid occupies the cysteine position in the typical sequence of a 8Fe protein as indicated before. The novel [4Fe-4S] cluster with mixed S and O coordination has a midpoint redox potential of 400 mV (88). This novel coordinated state with an oxygen coordination to the iron-sulfur core is a plausible model for a [4Fe-4S] core showing unusual spin states present in complex proteins (113, 114). 

The oxidation of isocyanides to isocyanates with oxygen, catalyzed by Ni(CNR)4 or Ni(CjHi2)2. has been known for some time 106). One can now postulate on the basis of these data that catalysis is being accomplished via oxygen coordination to the metal. 

The latter method, the template method, involves a reaction to produce a transition state similar to the desired product using a template. The template should have a shape similar to the space of the product. The template interacts with the substrate by forming noncovalent bonds such as coordination bonds (Fig. 3). The representative and most successful examples are found in crown ether chemistry. In the chemistry, alkali metals act as templates to create a crown-ether-like transition state with an ethylene glycol substrate by using metal-oxygen coordination bonds. 

Reactions (6), (7) and (9) occur with substitution-labile oxidants and (6), (7) and (8) with substitution-inert oxidants. It is postulated that the species (MS03)" involves metal-oxygen coordination for labile M", and metal-sulphur coordination for inert M". The latter mode is thought to prevent sulphur-sulphur bond formation. 

The MM calculations show (77) that for a metal ion the size of five-coordinate high-spin Fe(II) in a porphyrin, there is a very small difference in energy between whether the Fe(II) rises up out of the plane or remains in the plane of the porphyrin. Thus, a small modification of the bell-pull mechanism (80) of hemoglobin may be that the high-spin Fe(II) with no oxygen coordinated to it does not rise out of the... 

Markies et al. have studied the coordination of zinc to cyclic and acyclic polyether ligands. In some cases the zinc is not coordinated within the ligand cavity but only through two of the ether donors in the macrocyclic ring.360 The bis(methoxyethyl)ether complex of zinc diphenyl (41) is five-coordinate with three ether oxygens coordinating from the acyclic ligand.361... 

The reduction to methoxy-hydrido species (7) is thought to proceed via loss of CO from the dicarbonyl complex followed by addition of hydrogen to give the dihydrido carbonyl species (9). The next step suggested (37) is hydride transfer to the carbonyl carbon to give a formyl species in which both the carbonyl carbon and the carbonyl oxygen coordinate to the metal center, i.e., 10 ... 

The idea (50, 5/) of dual coordination of CO implies the presence of two coordination centers in a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst system, i.e., a carbonyl carbon coordinating center, Ma, and a carbonyl oxygen coordinating center, M6 (14). It is this concept which has led at least two groups to examine transition metal carbonyl cluster compounds as homogeneous Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. 

Activation of Carbon Monoxide by Carbon and Oxygen Coordination... 

Representatives of the bridged sulfone system 70 have been subjected to ruthenium catalysed ring-closing metathesis reactions (Grubbs catalyst) and shown to afford, in low yields, a few selected cyclic dimers and trimers, of all the possibilities available. The diastereoselectivities observed were rationalised in terms of kinetic control involved with internal ruthenium/sulfonyl oxygen coordination . 

Carreira and Kruger reported facile transmetallation of silicon enolates to other soft metal enolates including Gu derivatives.499 They reasoned that the use of soft metal fluoride complexes enabled silyl metal transmetallation with catalytic use of a soft metal source. The concept is illustrated in Scheme 103. Normal Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions of silicon enolates with aldehydes proceed via activation of aldehydes by carbonyl oxygen coordination to Lewis acids, as shown in the upper equation of Scheme 103. A key step for catalytic turnover is the desilyation of 233 by the... 

Concomitant with the change in the oxygen coordination number is a shift of the first minimum of the O-H RDF from 1.30 A at 34 GPa to 1.70 A at 115 GPa. We observe a similar structural change in the H-H RDF in which the first peak lengthens from 1.63 A (close to the result for ambient conditions) to 1.85 A. These observations bear a strong resemblance to the ice VII to ice X transition in which the covalent O-H bond distance of ice becomes equivalent to the hydrogen bond distance as pressure is increased.82 However, the superionic phase differs from ice X, in that the position of the first peak in g(RoH) is not half the distance of the first 0-0 peak.82 We analyze the effect... 

The sensor covalently joined a bithiophene unit with a crown ether macrocycle as the monomeric unit for polymerization (Scheme 1). The spatial distribution of oxygen coordination sites around a metal ion causes planarization of the backbone in the bithiophene, eliciting a red-shift upon metal coordination. They expanded upon this bithiophene structure by replacing the crown ether macrocycle with a calixarene-based ion receptor, and worked with both a monomeric model and a polymeric version to compare ion-binding specificity and behavior [13]. The monomer exhibited less specificity for Na+ than the polymer. However, with the gradual addition of Na+, the monomer underwent a steady blue shift in fluorescence emission whereas the polymer appeared to reach a critical concentration where the spectra rapidly transitioned to a shorter wavelength. Scheme 2 illustrates the proposed explanation for blue shift with increasing ion concentration. 

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