Reactions of Dicyclopentadienyltitanium(III) compounds with carbon monoxide

Reactions of Cp₂TiR (R = Cl, C₆F₅, C₆H₅, o-CH₃C₆H₄) with CO give two types of products: terminally coordinated adducts, Cp₂Ti(R)CO, and insertion products, Cp₂TiCOR, i.e. acyl compounds. The acyl ligand is η²-coordinated at the titanium atom. The preparations and properties of the compounds are described.     

Rhodium(III)-catalyzed oxidative carbonylation of benzamides with carbon monoxide

An efficient strategy for the oxidative carbonylation of aromatic amides via C-H/N-H activation to form phthalimides using an Rh(III) catalyst has been developed. The reaction shows a preference for C-H bonds of electron-rich aromatic amides and tolerates a variety of functional groups.     

Oxidation of carbon monoxide over a copper(II) oxide catalyst

Transient FTIR observations in conjuction with gas phase CO conversion measurements indicate an adsorbed CO species which seems not to participate directly in the oxidation reaction over a silica supported copper(II) oxide catalyst. This observation together with order of reaction determinations suggest that oxidation occurs via an Eley-Rideal mechanism.

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CO CO, (II), . , , , -.

     

The reaction of neodymium(III) oxide with chromium(III) oxide

The reaction of Nd₂O₃ and Cr₂O₃ in air has been studied in the temperature range 350–950°C. The nature and quantity of products formed was investigated primarily by an analytical scheme developed to permit the determination of the amounts of unreacted Nd₂O₃ and Cr₂O₃ and the amounts of possible products. From 350–600°C the sole product was Nd₂(CrO₄)₃, from 630–840°C the products were Nd₂(CrO₄)₃ and NdCrO₃, and from 880 to 950°C the sole product was NdCrO₃. The variation with temperature of the amounts of products formed at constant reaction time was investigated. The kinetics of the reaction were investigated at the following temperatures, 630, 650, 680, 700, 720 and 760°C. At each temperature, with increasing time the amount of Nd₂(CrO₄)₃ formed increased to a maximum and then decreased whereas the amount of NdCrO₃ formed increased continually. The results together with experiments on the effect of oxygen and argon atmospheres are interpreted as follows. NdCrO₃ is not formed by direct combination of Nd₂O₃ with Cr₂O₃. Instead the reaction of the two oxides produces Nd₂(CrO₄)₃, the thermal decomposition of which then leads to the formation of NdCrO₃. The absence of NdCrO₄ as a reaction product is investigated and discussed as is the absence of NdCrO₃ as a reaction product below 630°C.     

The enantiotropic phase transition of antimony(III) oxide

Pure cubic senarmontite and pure orthorhombic valentite were characterised by XRD and infrared absorption spectroscopy, these techniques were also used to characterise heat treated samples. Senarmontite was shown to be the stable low temperature polymorph and valentite the stable high temperature form. The application of classical thermodynamics indicated the transition temperature to be 923K. Valentite was shown to exist below 923K but heat treatment below this temperature caused the metastable valentite to revert to senarmontite. DTA of antimony(III) oxide gave a single sharp endothermic peak at 913K, independent of the crystal modification, thus indicating that melting and phase transition were inseparable thermal events.     

Synthesis and characterization of a new coordination compound of gold(III) with triphenylarsine oxide(TPAsO)

A new solid coordination compound of the type 1:1 of TPAsO to gold(III) was prepared firstly by means of the extraction method, but only the coordination compound of the type 2:1 was obtained by the method of direct synthesis. It was found in polar solvents that the 1:1 type coordination compound could transform to that of the 2:1 type slowly. By the data of thermoanalyses, a mechanism was suggested for thermal decomposition of the above two coordination compounds.     

Gas phase electrocatalytic reduction of carbon monoxide in a cell with a solid proton-conducting electrolyte

Gas phase reduction of carbon monoxide to methanol and ethanol was found to occur in electrochemical cells with solid proton-conducting electrolytes based on H₃PW₁₂O₄₀· nH₂O, H₄SiW₁₂O₄₀ · nH₂O or Sb₂O₅ · 3.5 H₂O and metallic Ni, Pd or Cu electrodes at room temperature under atmospheric pressure.

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, H₃PW₁₂O₄₀·nH₂O, H₄SiW₁₂O₄₀·n H₂O Sb₂O₅·3,5H₂O Ni, Pd Cu CO .

     

Reductive coupling of carbon monoxide by U(III) complexes--a computational study

The role of U((η-C(8)H(6){Si(i)Pr(3)-1,4}(2))(η-C(5)Me(5)) and U((η-C(8)H(6){Si(i)Pr(3)-1,4}(2))(η-C(5)Me(4)H) in the reductive di- tri- and tetramerization of CO has been modelled using density functional methods and U(C(8)H(8))(C(5)H(5)) as the metal fragment. The orbital structure of U(C(8)H(8))(C(5)H(5)) is described. CO binding to form a monocarbonyl U(C(8)H(8))(C(5)H(5))(CO) is found, by a variety of methods, to place spin density on the CO ligand via back-bonding from the U5f orbitals. A possible pathway for formation of the yne diolate complex [U(C(8)H(8))(C(5)H(5))](2)C(2)O(2) is proposed which involves dimerization of U(C(8)H(8))(C(5)H(5))CO via coordination of the CO O atoms to the opposing U atoms followed by C-C bond formation to form a zig-zag intermediate, stable at low temperatures. The intermediate then unfolds to form the yne diolate. The structures of [U(C(8)H(8))(C(5)H(5))]C(2)O(2), the deltate complex [U(C(8)H(8))(C(5)H(5))]C(3)O(3) and the squarate complex [U(C(8)H(8))(C(5)H(5))]C(4)O(4) are optimized and provide good models for the experimental compounds. The reaction of further CO with a zig-zag intermediate to form deltate and squarate complexes was explored using Th(C(8)H(8))(C(5)H(5)) as a model and low energy pathways are proposed.     

Dual facet of gold(III) in the reactions of gold(III) and porphyrins

We have firstly demonstrated the dual facet of gold(III) in the reaction between gold(III) and porphyrins, which could be tuned through changing the counter ions, ligands and the electronic effect of the substituents of the porphyrins.     

Carbon dioxide reduction and carbon monoxide activation employing a reactive uranium(III) complex

The highly reactive, six-coordinate tris-aryloxide U(III) species, [((t-BuArO)3tacn)U] (1) reacts with CO2 in a 2e- reduction to produce CO and a dinuclear U(IV/IV) mu-oxygen bridged complex [{((t-BuArO)3tacn)U}2(mu-O)] (2). This reaction proceeds via a dinuclear CO2-bridged intermediate 3. Also, mononuclear 1 was treated with 1 atm of CO to yield dinuclear [{((t-BuArO)3tacn)U}2(mu-CO)] (4) with a CO ligand bridging two uranium ions in an unprecedented mu:eta1,eta1 fashion. The mixed-valent azido-bridged U(III/IV) complex 5 was synthesized from trivalent 1 and tetravalent [((t-BuArO)3tacn)U(N3)] and serves as an isostructural analogue of triatomic-bridged intermediate 3 as well as an electronic model for mixed-valent 4.     

Synthesis of luminescent gold(I) and gold(III) complexes with a triphosphine ligand

We have synthesized and characterized a series of trinuclear gold(I) complexes [(AuX)(3)(mu-triphos)] (triphos = bis(2-diphenylphosphinoethyl)phenylphosphine; X = Cl 1, Br 2, I 3, C(6)F(5) 4) and di- and trinuclear gold(III) complexes [[Au(C(6)F(5))(3)](n)(mu-triphos)] (n = 2 (5), 3 (6)). The crystal structure of 6 [[Au(C(6)F(5))(3)](3)(mu-triphos)] has been determined by X-ray diffraction studies, which show the triphosphine in a conformation resulting in very long gold-gold distances, probably associated with the steric requirements of the tris(pentafluorophenyl)gold(III) units. Complex 6 crystallizes in the triclinic space group P(-1) with a = 12.7746(16) A, b = 18.560(2) A, c = 21.750(3) A, alpha = 98.215(3) degrees, beta = 101.666(3) degrees, gamma = 96.640(3) degrees, and Z = 2. Chloride substitutions in complex 1 afford trinuclear gold(I) complexes [(AuX)(3)(mu-triphos)] (X = Fmes (1,3,5-tris(trifluoromethyl)phenyl) 7, p-SC(6)H(4)Me 8, SCN 9) and [Au(3)Cl(3)(-)(n)()(S(2)CNR(2))(n)(mu-triphos)] (R = Me, n = 3 (10), 2 (12), 1 (14); R = CH(2)Ph, n = 3 (11), 2 (13), 1 (15)). The luminescence properties of these complexes in the solid state have been studied; at low temperature most of them are luminescent, including the gold(III) derivative 6, with the intensity and the emission maxima being clearly influenced by the nature and the number of the ligands bonded to the gold centers.     

Size-dependent carbon monoxide adsorption on neutral gold clusters

We report on experiments probing the reactivity of neutral Au(n) clusters, n = 9-68, with carbon monoxide. The gold clusters are produced in a pulsed laser vaporization cluster source, operated at room temperature (RT) or at liquid-nitrogen temperature (LNT), pass through a low-pressure reaction cell containing CO gas, and are subsequently laser ionized. The reaction probabilities are determined by recording mass abundance spectra with time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The main observations are a strong temperature dependence and a remarkable size dependence. Upon cooling of the cluster source to LNT, the reactivity increases substantially. At LNT, the reaction probabilities for Au(n) with the first CO molecule are about a factor 10 higher than at RT. Moreover, adsorption of two, three, and even four CO molecules is observed, in contrast to RT clusters which at most adsorb one CO molecule. This temperature dependence is related to the lifetime of the cluster-molecule complexes, being much longer for cold clusters. The observed striking size dependence is similar at both temperatures and is discussed in terms of the electronic structure effects.     

Amine-amide equilibrium in gold(III) complexes and a gold(III)-gold(I) aurophilic bond

The ligands HN(CH2-2-C5H4N)2, BPMA, and PhCH2N(CH2-2-C5H4N)2, BBPMA, react with Na[AuCl4] to give the cationic complexes [AuCl(BPMA-H)]+ and [AuCl(BBPMA)]2+, respectively. The amido complex [AuCl(BPMA-H)]+ undergoes easy inversion at the amido nitrogen atom and can be reversibly protonated by triflic acid to give [AuCl(BPMA)]2+. The complex [AuCl(BBPMA)]2+ is easily decomposed in aqueous solution by cleavage of a carbon-nitrogen bond or, in dilute HCl solution, by protonation of the ligand to give [BBPMAH2]Cl[AuCl4] The complexes [BBPMAH2]Cl[AuCl4] and [BBPMAH2]Cl[AuCl2] can be formed by direct reaction of BBPMA with H[AuCl4]. Unusual forms of gold(III)...gold(III) and gold(III)...gold(I) aurophilic bonding are observed in the salts [AuCl(BPMA-H)][PF6] and [AuCl(BPMA-H)][AuCl2], respectively. The first comparison of the structures of gold(III) amine and amido complexes, in the cations [AuCl(BPMA-H)]+ and [AuCl(BPMA)]2+, indicates that there is little ppi-dpi bonding in the amido-gold bond and that the amide exerts a stronger trans influence than the amine group.