Osmium complexes sulfides

Apparently, soft sulfur ligands alone cannot stabilize Ru or Os . The existing thioether, thiolato, and sulfide complexes of ruthenium(VI) and osmium(VI) are associated with either the 0x0 or the nitrido ligand and they have been discussed in the previous sections. 

Only one dialkyl sulfide complex has been reported,/ac-Os(SEt2)3Cl3, but recently a number of osmium-(III), -(IV) and -(VI) complexes of chelating thioethers have been prepared. There is also only one DMSO complex, Os(DMSO)3Cl3 (see p. 602). 

Chlorins, e.g. 14, form adducts with osmium(VIII) oxide, which can be hydrolyzed in aqueous sodium sulfide to bacteriochlorindiols, e g. 2, or isobacteriochlorindiols, e.g. 3. Thus, similar to diimide reductions of chlorins, metal-free tetraphenylchlorin 14 (M = 2H) is selectively oxidized to a corresponding bacteriochlorin 2 whereas the zinc chlorin gives an isobac-teriochlorin 3 on oxidation with osmium(VIII) oxide.40 With less symmetrical chlorins, very complex mixtures of constitutional isomers and stereoisomers are formed by /i-bishydroxyla-tion.17... 

Organometallic compounds asymmetric catalysis, 11, 255 chiral auxiliaries, 266 enantioselectivity, 255 see also specific compounds Organozinc chemistry, 260 amino alcohols, 261, 355 chirality amplification, 273 efficiency origins, 273 ligand acceleration, 260 molecular structures, 276 reaction mechanism, 269 transition state models, 264 turnover-limiting step, 271 Orthohydroxylation, naphthol, 230 Osmium, olefin dihydroxylation, 150 Oxametallacycle intermediates, 150, 152 Oxazaborolidines, 134 Oxazoline, 356 Oxidation amines, 155 olefins, 137, 150 reduction, 5 sulfides, 155 Oxidative addition, 5 amine isomerization, 111 hydrogen molecule, 16 Oxidative dimerization, chiral phenols, 287 Oximes, borane reduction, 135 Oxindole alkylation, 338 Oxiranes, enantioselective synthesis, 137, 289, 326, 333, 349, 361 Oxonium polymerization, 332 Oxo process, 162 Oxovanadium complexes, 220 Oxygenation, C—H bonds, 149... 

The reaction of an osmium carbene cluster containing the cyclic carbene ligand = C(CH=CH)2C(Ph)H which is side on bound to a nonacarbo-nyltriosmium unit with either elemental sulfur/NEt3 or cyclohexene sulfide also afforded a rf-thioketone complex.184... 

The complex Os(SCl0Hl3)4(CNMe) is made from OsCl3, the lithium salt of 2,3,5,6-tetramethyl-benzenethiolate and 2,3,5,6-tetramethylphenyl sulfide it is green-yellow. The X-ray crystal structure of the ruthenium salt shows it to be trigonal bipyramidal, with the acetonitrile in the axial position. The osmium complex is isomorphous it would seem therefore to be the only example so far reported of a trigonal bipyramidal osmium(IV) complex. In an attempt to make a complex of lower coordination number 2,4,6-triisopropylbenzenethiolate (SC15H23) was used but the complex was still pentacoordinate, i.e. Os(S15H23)4(MeCN).719... 

A Cr(VI) sulfoxide complex has been postulated after interaction of [CrOjtClj] with MejSO (385), but the complex was uncharacterized as it was excessively unstable. It was observed that hydrolysis of the product led to the formation of dimethyl sulfone. The action of hydrogen peroxide on mesityl ferrocencyl sulfide in basic media yields both mesityl ferrocenyl sulfoxide (21%) and the corresponding sulfone (62%) via a reaction similar to the Smiles rearrangement (165). Catalytic air oxidation of sulfoxides by rhodium and iridium complexes has been observed. Rhodium(III) and iridium(III) chlorides are catalyst percursors for this reaction, but ruthenium(III), osmium(III), and palladium(II) chlorides are not (273). The metal complex and sulfoxide are dissolved in hot propan-2-ol/water (9 1) and the solution purged with air to achieve oxidation. The metal is recovered as a noncrystalline, but still catalytically active, material after reaction (272). The most active precursor was [IrHClj(S-Me2SO)3], and it was observed that alkyl sulfoxides oxidize more readily than aryl sulfoxides, while thioethers are not oxidized as complex formation occurs. 

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