Solvating ligands

Addition of strongly solvating ligands L to electrolytes with high ion-pair associa-... 

Whilst many solvating ligands have been studied, the dialkyl sulfide reagents (see Table 6) remain the most important commercially 297... 

The K, values correspond to a given conformation of the solvated ligand (L)solv which may or may not remain the same in the complex in some cases several conformations may be imagined (see Fig. 8). Thus Ks is an average stability constant for the system at thermodynamic equilibrium with respect to both conformation and complexation. 

We note that both of the reactions (equations 23 and 24) (without additional solvating ligands explicitly being shown) proceed facilely . 

Alcohols. Alcohols are among the most common solvate ligands in actinide chemistry (Table 13) historically the hydrated chloride complexes were reacted with alcohol in benzene, and the water of hydration removed by azeotropic distillation of the benzene. More recent examples result from the crystallization of anhydrous halides from alcoholic solvent. Similarly, solvates of alkoxide complexes result from rnetathesis or solvolysis reations in alcohol. The molecular structures of the halides AnCl4(Pr OH)4 (An = Th, U) have been reported,the coordination geometry about the metal is a distorted dodecahedron. 

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