Pyridyl ligand

Table 3. N-M-N Bite angle in di(pyridyl) ligand systems...

The axial coordination of metalloporphyrins to a pyridyl ligand was successfully exploited by two groups to produce porphyrin-stoppered rotaxanes. Sanders (48) assembled a rotaxane by simply mixing the constituent parts. Zn(II), Ru(II)CO, and Rh(II)Cl porphyrins were used as stoppers. Branda (49) reported the stoppering of a pseudorotaxane by adding two equivalents of a Ru(II)CO porphyrin that coordinated to... 

If the free-base porphyrin is tetrasubstituted at the meso positions with 3- or 4-pyridyl ligands, pentamers are obtained on coordination to zinc porphyrin dimers (79) (65,66, Fig. 24). With the 3-pyridyl derivative all the porphyrin planes are coplanar, whereas in the case of the 4-pyridyl derivative the ligand porphyrins are approximately perpendicular to the plane of the zinc porphyrins. Quenching of the zinc porphyrin... 

An imidazole/pyridyl ligand (4) coordinates to a copper(II) center and on deprotonation the imidazole reacts with bis(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)zinc to form a trimeric Cu2Zn species bridged by imidazoles. The zinc ion is in an octahedral coordination environment with Zn-N distances of 2.029(2) A.116... 

COORDINATION COMPLEXES WITH NLO PROPERTIES 9.14.2.1 Complexes of Nonchelating Pyridyl Ligands... 

The aforementioned polymer-supported bis-pyridyl ligand has also been applied in microwave-assisted asymmetric allylic alkylation [140], a key step in the enantio-selective synthesis of (R)-baclofen (Scheme 7.118), as reported by Moberg and coworkers. The ( (-enantiomer is a useful agonist of the GABAb (y-aminobutyric acid) receptor, and the racemic form is used as a muscle relaxant (antispasmodic). Under microwave heating, the enantioselectivity could be improved to 89% when using toluene as solvent (see also Scheme 6.52) [140],... 

A similar mechanism could operate also for bis(imino)pyridyl Fe(II)-based catalysts which have been reported to afford isospecific chain-end controlled propene polymerization occurring through secondary monomer insertion.138139 In fact, preliminary calculations indicate that the chirality of the growing chain would determine a chiral conformation of the bis-pyridyl ligand, which in turn would discriminate between the two monomer enantiofaces. 

The chelating effect of pyridyl ligands has been studied by displacement reactions (188). 

Walker, F.A. and Benson, M., Entropy, enthalpy, and side arm porphyrins. 1. Thermodynamics of axial ligand competition between 3-picoline and a series of 3-pyridyl ligands covalently attached to zinc tetraphenylporphyrin. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1980, 102, 5530-5538. 

Scheme 1.1 Attachment of a pyridyl ligand and (1) to ArgoGel resin (2).

Scheme 1.6 Immobilization of pyridyl ligand (1) via Williamson ether formation.

Fig. 1.25 Gel-phase H HR-MAS NMR spectrum of resin containing pyridyl ligand (3) and the enol ether side-product (13).

Phosphorus ylides have been reviewed and an intermediate betaine lithium salt adduct (stabilized by complexation with lithium ions and by the chelating effect of pyridyl ligands) has been observed spectroscopically for the first time during the course of a Wittig reaction. ... 

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