The replacement of five-membered N-donor heterocycles from aminotrichlorogold(III) complexes. A comparison with pyridines |
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Authors: | Bruno Pitteri Marco Bortoluzzi |
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Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Chimica, Università “Cà Foscari” di Venezia, Calle Larga S. Marta 2137, 30123 Venezia, Italy |
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Abstract: | The kinetics of the process AuCl3(nu) + Cl−→ AuCl
4
−
+ nu (nu = one of a number of five-membered N-donor heterocycles covering a wide range of basicity, namely: oxazole, 2,4,5-trimethyloxazole,
thiazole, 5-methylthiazole, 4-methylthiazole, 4,5-dimethylthiazole, 2,4-dimethylthiazole, 2,4,5-trimethylthiazole, imidazole
and 2-methylimidazole) have been studied in methanol at 25 °C. The reactions follow the usual two-term rate law, rate = (k
1 + k
2Cl−])complex], observed in a square-planar substitution associative-mechanism. The second-order rate constants, k
2, indicate that the discriminating ability of Au(III) in these complexes is good and markedly influenced by the nature of the leaving group. A linear-free-energy relationship,
logk
2 = 0.53pK
a
+ constant, is observed between the rate constant and the basicity of the leaving group for its replacement by chloride.
The results are compared with data from the literature regarding a series of complexes of the type AuCl3(py) (py = one of a number of pyridines) reacting with the Cl− anion under the same experimental conditions. The reactivity depends not only upon ligand basicity but also upon the nature
of the ligand in the order: pyridines> five-membered heterocycles. Steric factor due to the presence of a single methyl group
ortho to the sp2 nitrogen atom in the ring has no influence on the rate of substitution while, surprisingly, when there are two ortho methyl groups a remarkable steric retardation effect is observable. The results are discussed in terms of reaction-profile
in the associative-substitution reaction and bonding interactions in the ground and transition states. |
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