Polynuclear transition metal complexes dinuclear carbonyls

Carbene Complexes Carbonyl Complexes ofthe Transition Metals Cyanide Complexes of the Transition Metals Dinuclear Organometallic Cluster Complexes Electron Transfer in Coordination Compounds Electron Transfer Reactions Theory Electronic Structure of Organometallic Compounds Luminescence Nucleic Acid-Metal Ion Interactions Photochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes Photochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes Theory Polynuclear Organometallic Cluster Complexes. 

An interesting feature of hydrido transition metal-PF3 complexes is that apart from a few dinuclear systems (Section VI) only mononuclear systems are so far known and there is as yet no corresponding chemistry analogous to that of polynuclear carbonyl hydrido compounds. The trifluorophosphine metal hydrido compounds are usually highly acidic and can readily form metallate ions such as [M(PF3)m]x and [MH(PF3) r. 

Eliminations from Os(CO)4RR occur by dinuclear mechanisms only if either R or R is H. A hydride on one metal is necessary to interact with a vacant coordination site on the other in the dinuclear transition state. With Os(CO)4H2, the vacant site is created by dissociation of CO. With Os(CO)4-(H)CH the vacant site is created by a facile rate-determining isomerization which we suggest is to an acetyl hydride. The unique instability of hydridoalkyl carbonyls thus is explained. The synthesis and properties of Os(CO)4(H)C2H and various polynuclear ethyl osmium derivatives show that (3-hydrogens have no significant effect on these elimination mechanisms. Dinuclear hydridoalkyls are excellent starting points for the synthesis of more complex polynuclear alkyls. 

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