Future tasks in interfacial electrochemistry and surface reactivity

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry -     

Amido analogues of zincocenes and cadmocenes

The synthesis and characterisation of low-coordinate zinc and cadmium complexes of the sterically demanding 1,3,6,8-tetra-tert-butylcarbazol-9-yl ligand ((t)Bu(4)carb(-)) are reported. ((t)Bu(4)carb)(2)M (M = Zn 1; M = Cd 2) are the first examples of formally two-coordinate bis-carbazol-9-yl complexes of the Group 12 metals and 2 is the first crystallographically characterised two-coordinate amido complex of cadmium. The structure and bonding within these complexes are explored via a combination of X-ray crystallography and DFT calculations. The solid state structures for these zinc and cadmium complexes differ greatly from each other; not only do the steric demands of the peripheral tert-butyl substituents in these systems act to inhibit solvent coordination, but they also influence the coordination geometry around the metal centres.     

Chemical reactivity and surface-enhanced raman scattering

A mechanism is proposed for surface-enhanced Raman scattering for pyridine which explains the enhancement, the anodizalion “activation”, the significance of silver, the photographitization of coordinated pyridine and formate, the participation of surface roughness, and the irreversibly held yet liquid-like nature of surface pyridine.     

Dipyrrinphenol-Mn(III) complex: synthesis, electrochemistry, spectroscopic characterisation and reactivity

Herein, we report the manganese complex with a novel trianionic ligand, the pentafluorophenyldipyrrinphenol ligand DPPH(3). The X-ray crystal structure reveals that the Mn(III) complex exists in a dimeric form in the solid state. Electrochemical studies indicate two quasi-reversible one electron oxidation processes. EPR data on the one electron oxidised species in solution support the formation of a monuclear Mn complex with an S = 3/2 spin system. Preliminary studies towards epoxidation reactions were tested in the presence of iodosylbenzene (PhIO) and are in favour of an oxygen-atom-transfer (OAT) reaction catalyzed by the Mn(III) complex.     

ArCCo~3(CO)~9~-~nL~n的化学ETC合成及其电化学研究

利用由化学还原剂BPK引发的电子迁移催化反应(ETC)合成了两个系列八种新的三核钴簇合物p-RC~6H~4CCo~3(CO)~9~-~nL~n(L=PPh~3, n=1; L=P(OEt)~3, n=2)。用m.p.、元素分析、IR及^1H NMR对簇合物进行了表征。对簇合物在Pt电极上的循环伏安(CV)研究表明, p-RC~6H~4CCo~3(CO)~9及PPh~3单取代物在室温下均经历一个可逆的单电子过程。p-RC~6H~4CCo~3(CO)~9的E~1~/~2与R的σ~m线性关系表明R通过诱导效应影响簇合物的氧化还原性。取代簇合物的还原电势相对于母体簇合物的负转移表明P的配位增大了CCo~3上的电荷密度, 导致簇合物难被还原。     

Chemical reactivity concepts in charge sensitivity analysis

Recent reactivity concepts formulated within charge analysis (CSA ) are outlined. The charge stability criteria of equilibrium states in open and closed systems are conveniently characterized in terms of the condensed reactant hardness quantities of reactants; their implications for catatytic systems are examined. A use of characteristics associated with selected collective charge displacement modes, including the populational normal modes and minimum-energy coordinates, as diagnostic tools in the theory of chemical reactivity is proposed. The importance of the mapping relations between modes defined in the electron population and nuclear position spaces, respectively, as the unifying concept linking the conjugate charge and geometry displacements, is commented upon. Recent results for model catalytic clusters are used to illustrate some of the concepts introduced. Finally, the relevant contributions to the quadratic interaction energy between reactants are reexamined and expressed in terms of relevant charge sensitivities. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Chemical reactivity of the compressed noble gas atoms and their reactivity dynamics during collisions with protons

Attempts are made to gain insights into the effect of confinement of noble gas atoms on their various reactivity indices. Systems become harder, less polarizable and difficult to excite as the compression increases. Ionization also causes similar effects. A quantum fluid density functional technique is adopted in order to study the dynamics of reactivity parameters during a collision between protons and He atoms in different electronic states for various projectile velocities and impact parameters. Dynamical variants of the principles of maximum hardness, minimum polarizability and maximum entropy are found to be operative.     

Chemical control of the photochromic reactivity of diarylethene derivatives

Photochemically inactive diarylethene derivatives having a N-(O-hydroxyphenyl) group underwent photochromic reaction when they were esterified by the addition of acetic anhydride.     

Chemical composition and reactivity of water on hexagonal Pt-group metal surfaces

The dissociation behaviour and valence-electronic structure of water adsorbed on clean and oxygen-covered Ru{0001}, Rh{111}, Pd{111}, Ir{111} and Pt{111} surfaces has been studied by high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy with the aim of identifying similarities and trends within the Pt-group metals. On average, we find higher reactivity for the 4d metals (Ru, Rh, Pd) as compared to 5d (Ir, Pt), which is correlated with characteristic shifts in the 1b(1) and 3a(1) molecular orbitals of water. Small amounts of oxygen (< 0.2 ML) induce dissociation of water on all five surfaces, for higher coverages (> 0.25 ML) only intact water is observed. Under UHV conditions these higher coverages can only be reached on the 4d metals, the 5d metals are, therefore, not passivated.     

微系统与电化学

本文简要介绍微系统的涵义、发展和主要特点。通过列举并讨论电化学在微系统中的应用以及微系统在电化学中的可能应用 ,阐明作为纳米科技一个重要组成部分的微系统的兴起将在二十一世纪为电化学提供新的发展机遇。     

Chemical and photochemical reactivity in micellar media and microemulsions VII- Effect of the interface on the reactivity of excited states

Study of the photodimerization of coumarin in micellar media and microemulsions shows that the orientation and the concentration of molecu- les in the interfacial film can favor reactions involving just one of the excited states (the singlet state in this case).     

Chemical reactivity trends of ergotamine and butenolide from electrostatic potentials and charge sensitivities

A set of reactivity indices, including maps of the electrostatic potential and local and condensed Fukui function (FF ) indices in the atomic resolution, are reported for two vasoconstricting mycotoxins: butenolide and ergotamine; both the finite difference approach of Parr and Yang as well as charge sensitivity analysis, determining the charge responses via the inversion of the hardness tensor, have been used to generate the FF data. These two routes of arriving at the atomic FF indices provide an opportunity to evaluate the available parametrizations of the semiempirical NDDO -type of methods which have been used to determine the input charge distribution; namely, the best parametrization should generate consistent FF predictions resulting from both approaches. For butenolide, the MNDO parametrization was found to fulfill this consistency requirement. The chemical reactivity information has been used to trace possible similarities in reactivity trends of the butenolide molecule and the related fragment of ergotamine, toward hypothetical nucleophilic, electrophilic, and radical attacks. These predictions have been compared to experimental data available for other unsaturated lactones. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.