Polydentates

Conceptually the most simple syntheses of complex molecules involve the joining of structural units in which all functional groups and all asymmetric centres are preformed. This technique can usually only be applied to compounds in which these units are connected by —C—X— bonds rather than C—C. It is illustrated here by the standard syntheses of oligonucleotides, peptides, and polydentate macrocyclic ligands. 

Titanium chelates are formed from tetraalkyl titanates or haUdes and bi- or polydentate ligands. One of the functional groups is usually alcohoHc or enoHc hydroxyl, which interchanges with an alkoxy group, RO, on titanium to Hberate ROH. If the second function is hydroxyl or carboxyl, it may react similarly. Diols and polyols, a-hydroxycarboxyflc acids and oxaUc acid are all examples of this type. P-Keto esters, P-diketones, and alkanolamines are also excellent chelating ligands for titanium. 

The i5p-titanium(IV) atom is hard, ie, not very polarizable, and can be expected to form its most stable complexes with hard ligands, eg, fluoride, chloride, oxygen, and nitrogen. Soft or relatively polarizable ligands containing second- and third-row elements or multiple bonds should give less stable complexes. The stabihty depends on the coordination number of titanium, on whether the ligand is mono- or polydentate, and on the mechanism of the reaction used to measure stabihty. 

The Schiff basses derived from salicylaldehydes polydentate ligands ai e known to form very stable complexes with transition metal ions [1]. 

We detenuined the influence of oxy- and ketocarboxylic acids (succinate, fumarate, adipinate, a-ketoglutarate, isocitrate, tartrate, E-malate) on the luminescence intensity of the Eu-OxTc complex. These substances interact as polydentate ligands similarly to citrate with the formation of ternary complexes with Eu-OxTc. As to succinate, fumarate, adipinate and a-ketoglutarate this they cannot effectively coordinate with EiT+ and significant fluorescence enhancement was not observed. 

Another group of very effective ligands that have recently been employed to coordinate alkali metal cations are the macrobicyclic polydentate ligands that J.-M. Lehn has termed... 

Oxygen chelates such as those of edta and polyphosphates are of importance in analytical chemistry and in removing Ca ions from hard water. There is no unique. sequence of stabilities since these depend sensitively on a variety of factors where geometrical considerations are not important the smaller ions tend to form the stronger complexes but in polydentate macrocycles steric factors can be crucial. Thus dicyclohexyl-18-crown-6 (p. 96) forms much stronger complexes with Sr and Ba than with Ca (or the alkali metals) as shown in Fig. 5.6. Structural data are also available and an example of a solvated 8-coordinate Ca complex [(benzo-l5-crown-5)-Ca(NCS)2-MeOH] is shown in Fig. 5.7. The coordination polyhedron is not regular Ca lies above the mean plane of the 5 ether oxygens... 

There has been intense study of the complexes of bi- and polydentate ammines since the mid-1970s, driven by interest in the catalytic photodecomposition of water using the excited states of Ru(bipy)g+ (n = 2,3) and related systems (Figure 1.18) [5, 7, 8, 71]. 

Zerovalent complexes are also obtained with polydentate phosphines [53] Pd2Cl2(dppm)2 NaBH > Pd2(dppm)3... 

Complexes are similarly formed by polydentate phosphine and arsine ligands synthetic routes involve oxidation of the platinum(II) complex, either with the halogen or with nitric acid ... 

Less study has been made of complexes with polydentate ligands. Ag-N linkages have been studied in relation to polynucleotide bases and the Ag-DNA interaction could be important in the use of the silver-sulphadiazine complex in burn treatment. Ethylenediamine is a bridging ligand in AgenC104 (2-coordinate silver) but essentially planar 5-coordination... 

Substitution reactions of square planar complexes involving polydentate ligands. R. J. Mureinik, Rev. Inorg. Chem., 1979,1,1-50 (123). 

Cone angle concepts, 2,1012-1028 chelate effects, 2,1012 definitions, 2,1015 models, 2,1015 phosphines chiral, 2,1014 polydentate, 2,1013 solubility effects, 2,1014 use, 2,1028... 

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