Transition metal ions, electronic

Transition metal ions, electronically coupled to the conjugated backbone, allowed further tuning of the polymer s redox properties, which behaved complementary to FEDOT. A-B-type polymers with EDOT and carbazole structural units turned out to be another class of polymers anodically coloring that can successfully be combined with alkylenedioxythiophenes. - ... 

Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy. Several ESR studies have been reported for adsorption systems [85-90]. ESR signals are strong enough to allow the detection of quite small amounts of unpaired electrons, and the shape of the signal can, in the case of adsorbed transition metal ions, give an indication of the geometry of the adsorption site. Ref. 91 provides a contemporary example of the use of ESR and of electron spin echo modulation (ESEM) to locate the environment of Cu(II) relative to in a microporous aluminophosphate molecular sieve. 

An atom or a molecule with the total spin of the electrons S = 1 is said to be in a triplet state. The multiplicity of such a state is (2.S +1)=3. Triplet systems occur in both excited and ground state molecules, in some compounds containing transition metal ions, in radical pair systems, and in some defects in solids. 

Shannon and Prewitt base their effective ionic radii on the assumption that the ionic radius of (CN 6) is 140 pm and that of (CN 6) is 133 pm. Also taken into consideration is the coordination number (CN) and electronic spin state (HS and LS, high spin and low spin) of first-row transition metal ions. These radii are empirical and include effects of covalence in specific metal-oxygen or metal-fiuorine bonds. Older crystal ionic radii were based on the radius of (CN 6) equal to 119 pm these radii are 14-18 percent larger than the effective ionic radii. 

Reactions involving the peroxodisulfate ion are usually slow at ca 20°C. The peroxodisulfate ion decomposes into free radicals, which are initiators for numerous chain reactions. These radicals act either thermally or by electron transfer with transition-metal ions or reducing agents (79). 

With most transition metals, eg, Cu, Co, and Mn, both valence states react with hydroperoxides via one electron transfer (eqs. 11 andl2). Thus, a small amount of transition-metal ion can decompose a large amount of hydroperoxide and, consequendy, inadvertent contamination of hydroperoxides with traces of transition-metal impurities should be avoided. 

As with other hydroperoxides, hydroxyaLkyl hydroperoxides are decomposed by transition-metal ions in an electron-transfer process. This is tme even for those hydroxyaLkyl hydroperoxides that only exist in equiUbrium. For example, those hydroperoxides from cycHc ketones (R, R = alkylene) form an oxygen-centered radical initially which then undergoes ring-opening -scission forming an intermediate carboxyalkyl radical (124) ... 

Metal-Catalyzed Oxidation. Trace quantities of transition metal ions catalyze the decomposition of hydroperoxides to radical species and greatiy accelerate the rate of oxidation. Most effective are those metal ions that undergo one-electron transfer reactions, eg, copper, iron, cobalt, and manganese ions (9). The metal catalyst is an active hydroperoxide decomposer in both its higher and its lower oxidation states. In the overall reaction, two molecules of hydroperoxide decompose to peroxy and alkoxy radicals (eq. 5). 

Color from Transition-Metal Compounds and Impurities. The energy levels of the excited states of the unpaked electrons of transition-metal ions in crystals are controlled by the field of the surrounding cations or cationic groups. Erom a purely ionic point of view, this is explained by the electrostatic interactions of crystal field theory ligand field theory is a more advanced approach also incorporating molecular orbital concepts. 

In general, octahedral complexes of transition-metal ions possessing 0, 1, or 2 electrons beyond the electronic configuration of the preceding noble gas, ie, i/, (P configurations, are labile. The (P systems are usually inert the relative lability of vanadium(II) may be charge and/or redox related. 

An important property of the surface behaviour of oxides which contain transition metal ions having a number of possible valencies can be revealed by X-ray induced photoelectron spectroscopy. The energy spectrum of tlrese electrons give a direct measure of the binding energies of the valence electrons on the metal ions, from which the charge state can be deduced (Gunarsekaran et al., 1994). 

At the other end of the conduction spectrum, many oxides have conductivities dominated by electron and positive hole contributions to the extent that some, such as Re03, SnOa and tire perovskite LaCrOs have conductivities at the level of metallic conduction. High levels of p-type semiconduction are found in some transition metal perovskites especially those containing alio-valent ions. Thus the lanthairum-based perovskites containing transition metal ions, e.g. LaMOs (M-Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) have eirlranced p-type semiconduction due to the dependence of the transition metal ion valencies on the ambient... 

Electron-Transfer Reactions Involving Transition-Metal Ions... 

Most of the free-radical mechanisms discussed thus far have involved some combination of homolytic bond dissociation, atom abstraction, and addition steps. In this section, we will discuss reactions that include discrete electron-transfer steps. Addition to or removal of one electron fi om a diamagnetic organic molecule generates a radical. Organic reactions that involve electron-transfer steps are often mediated by transition-metal ions. Many transition-metal ions have two or more relatively stable oxidation states differing by one electron. Transition-metal ions therefore firequently participate in electron-transfer processes. 

SECTION 12.8. ELECTRON-TRANSFER REACTIONS INVOLVING TRANSITION-METAL IONS... 

In the Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions, as in all transition metal ions, there are no outer s electrons. 

Two possible reasons may be noted by which just the coordinatively insufficient ions of the low oxidation state are necessary to provide the catalytic activity in olefin polymerization. First, the formation of the transition metal-carbon bond in the case of one-component catalysts seems to be realized through the oxidative addition of olefin to the transition metal ion that should possess the ability for a concurrent increase of degree of oxidation and coordination number (177). Second, a strong enough interaction of the monomer with the propagation center resulting in monomer activation is possible by 7r-back-donation of electrons into the antibonding orbitals of olefin that may take place only with the participation of low-valency ions of the transition metal in the formation of intermediate 71-complexes. 

Persulfate (41) reacts with transition metal ions (e.g. Ag, Fe21, Ti31) according to Scheme 3.42. Various other reduetants have been described. These include halide ions, thiols (e.g. 2-mercaptoethanol, thioglycolic acid, cysteine, thiourea), bisulfite, thiosulfate, amines (triethanolamine, tetramethylethylenediamine, hydrazine hydrate), ascorbic acid, and solvated electrons (e.g. in radiolysis). The mechanisms and the initiating species produced have not been fully elucidated for... 

There are three types of electron transfers, firstly the generation of an electron electrochemically, by y-irradiation, or by photolytic dissociation, secondly the transfer of an electron from an inorganic or organic compound, referred to as a nucleophilic homolytic leaving group (Zollinger, 1973 a), and thirdly a transfer from a transition metal or transition metal ion complex. In this section we will discuss the fundamental aspects of these three types. In the following sections and in Chapter 10, specific examples and synthetic applications will be summarized. 

Table 1-2. The electronic configurations of the transition-metal ions in the divalent and triva-lent states.

Unpaired electrons and magnetism - One of the consequences of the open (incompletely filled) d" configuration of transition-metal ions may be the presence of one or more unpaired electrons. Such compounds could be described as radicals, and they are detected by techniques such as electron spin resonance spectroscopy. 

However, while transition-metal ions often contain unpaired electrons, they exhibit none of the reactivity that is commonly associated with such radicals outside the d block. There is no behaviour comparable to that of the highly reactive and short lived radicals such as CH3. Also associated with the presence of unpaired electrons in these species is the phenomenon of paramagnetism. The long-term stability of many compounds with unpaired electrons is a characteristic of the transition-metal series. 

Crystal-field theory (CFT) was constructed as the first theoretical model to account for these spectral differences. Its central idea is simple in the extreme. In free atoms and ions, all electrons, but for our interests particularly the outer or non-core electrons, are subject to three main energetic constraints a) they possess kinetic energy, b) they are attracted to the nucleus and c) they repel one another. (We shall put that a little more exactly, and symbolically, later). Within the environment of other ions, as for example within the lattice of a crystal, those electrons are expected to be subject also to one further constraint. Namely, they will be affected by the non-spherical electric field established by the surrounding ions. That electric field was called the crystalline field , but we now simply call it the crystal field . Since we are almost exclusively concerned with the spectral and other properties of positively charged transition-metal ions surrounded by anions of the lattice, the effect of the crystal field is to repel the electrons. 

We are concerned with what happens to the (spectral) d electrons of a transition-metal ion surrounded by a group of ligands which, in the crystal-field model, may be represented by point negative charges. The results depend upon the number and spatial arrangements of these charges. For the moment, and because of the very common occurrence of octahedral coordination, we focus exclusively upon an octahedral array of point charges. 

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