Multiple Bonds between Transition Metals and “Bare” Main Group Elements: Links between Inorganic Solid State Chemistry and Organometallic Chemistry

The last two decades have seen a dramatic development in the study of metal-metal multiple bonds, particular successes being recorded in the field of organometallic chemistry. Syntheses designed to produce novel transition metal complexes with single, double, triple and quadruple metal-metal bonds occupy a most important place in such research, as also do reactivity studies. A striving to establish general principles has provided much of the motivation for such work, but one less obvious goal—the commercial application of the catalytic properties of metal-metal multiple bonding systems, in the medium and long term—should not be overlooked. All aspects of the investigations of metal-metal multiple bonds also apply to a particular class of compound that has, however, enjoyed little lime-light and thus deserves the present review: complexes with multiple bonds between transition metals and substituent-free (“bare”) main group elements. Although based mostly on accidental discoveries, the few noteworthy examples are now beginning to unfold general concepts of synthesis that are capable of being extended and thus are deserving of exploitation in preparative chemistry. The availability of further structural patterns exhibiting multiple bonds between transition metals and ligand-free main group elements might enable preparative organometallic chemistry to expand in a completely new direction (for instance by the stabilizing or activation of small molecules at the metal complex). This essay discusses the chemistry of complexes of bare carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen ligands (carbido-, nitrido-, and oxo-complexes) and their relationships to higher homologues from both a synthetic and a structural point of view.     

The activation of the C-H bond in acetylene by second row transition metal atoms

Summary The C-H activation reaction of acetylene by second row transition metal atoms has been studied including electron correlation of all valence electrons. Binding energies have been computed for both -coordinated complexes and C-H insertion products. It is found that for most atoms the -coordinated complexes are thermodynamically favoured, just as in the case for the corresponding ethylene reaction. The barrier height for the C-H insertion increases from acetylene to ethylene and to methane. This is in line with the experimental finding that there should be an inverse relation between C-H bond strengths and the difficulty to activate these bonds. To explain the detailed differences between the C-H activation of acetylene and ethylene, the interaction with two, rather than one, - and *-orbitals for acetylene is of key importance. The barrier height for the acetylene reaction increases significantly between niobium and molybdenum going to the right in the periodic table, just as for all oxidative addition reactions previously studied. The origin of this increase is that noibium has one empty 4d-orbital but for molybdenum all 4d-orbitals are occupied. Rhodium has the lowest barrier for C-H activation for all systems studied.     

槲皮素伏安行为及其稀土络合物极谱催化氢波研究

在乙醇量小于5％的水溶液中，于pH1.5至4.5，4.2至9.5分别得到槲皮素的两个还原波，均为羰基两电子还原．前者为其分子的强吸附波，后者为一价阴离子的波．在pH6.1附近的醋酸盐缓冲底液中，可获得槲皮素与Tb（Ⅲ）、Dy（Ⅲ）、Ho（Ⅲ）、Er（Ⅲ）、Tm（Ⅲ）、Yb（Ⅲ）、Lu（Ⅲ）和Y（Ⅲ）等重稀土离子络合物的双重表面催化氢波．络合物被诱导吸附，组成为（REL_2）L_吸．Sc（Ⅲ）与槲皮素形成单一表面催化氢波，其组成为（ScL）L_吸．     

Normal coordinate analysis of MSiH3 moieties in transition metal complexes and comparison to results obtained for silyl halides

In order to examine the influence of the transition metal on the metal-silyl fragment MSiH₃ and the metal-silicon bond, polarized Raman spectra of the complexes (C₅R₅)(CO)₂FeSiH₃ R = H (Cp) (1a), Me (Cp^*) (1b)], (C₅H₅)(CO)(PPh₃)FeSiH₃ (1c), (C₅Me₅)(CO)₂RuSiH₃ (2), (C₅R₅)(CO)₂(PMc₃)MoSiH₃ [R = H (3a), Me (3b)], and (C₅R₅)(CO)₂(PMe₃)WSiH₃ [R = H(4a), Me (4b)] have been recorded. The spectral data have been evaluated and interpreted on the basis of a normal coordinate analysis of the MSiH₃ core and the derived force constants and potential energy distributions were compared to results obtained for analogous halogen derivatives in the series XSiH₃ [X = Br (5), I (6)].     

吲哚-3-乙酸与部分过渡金属离子M(Ⅱ)二元配合物的pH电位法研究

在25℃,I=0.10 mol/L KNO3的实验条件下,用pH电位法测定了吲哚-3-乙酸(IAA)在甲醇-水混合溶剂中的质子化常数,讨论了有机溶剂对质子化常数的影响,结果表明在实验范围内溶剂甲醇含量对质子化常数的影响呈线性关系.确定了二元体系M(Ⅱ)-IAA(M=Fe、Co、Ni、Cu、Zn和Cd)在甲醇含量为50%(V/V)的混合溶剂中主要存在的配合物物种,并测定了配合物的稳定常数.实验数据的处理运用计算机程序Hyperquad、Glee和Hyss完成.     

贵金属同时浮选分离富集行为的研究及ICP－AES的测定

本文通过对贵金属－碘化钾－孔雀绿显色体系的浮选行为研究，建立了一种同时浮选富集分离铂、钯、铑、铱、金的新方法。实验结果表明，在０．３６ｍｏｌ／ＬＨＣｌ０．１ｍｏｌ／ＬＫＩ和２．４×１０￣（－４）ｍｏｌ／ＬＭＧ的溶液中，加入环已烷振荡１ｍｉｎ，铂、钯、铑、铱、金可被定量浮选，继而用ＩＣＰ－ＡＥＳ测定。对含量为５～１５０μｇ的贵金属，浮选回收率分别为铂８８．６％～９５．７％，钯９２．３％～９９．５％，铑９３．７％～１０１％，铱９２％～９８．５％，金８６．４％～９４％。方法应用于铜镍矿、铂网废料等物料中上述贵金属元素的测定，结果满意。     

Selective desorption and analysis of humic substances on suspended particles in river water

The elemental analysis and morphology of individual particles indicate that the dominant suspended particles in river water are kaolin covered with hydrated iron(III) oxide which strongly sorbs humic substances. Suspended particles, about 1 mg, collected from 250 ml of water by centrifugation, are treated with 0.7 ml of 0.1M sodium hydroxide to desorb humic substances. Approximately 60% of copper and 30% of lead on or in suspended particles exist as humic complexes.     

Improved relativistic energy-consistent pseudopotentials for 3d-transition metals

Energy-consistent relativistic pseudopotentials for 3d-transition metals Sc to Ni based on modified valence energies are proposed. The pseudopotentials are adjusted at the finite difference level within the intermediate coupling scheme with respect to multi-configuration Dirac–Hartree–Fock data based on the Dirac–Coulomb Hamiltonian with an estimate of the Breit contributions in quasidegenerate perturbation theory. Typically a few hundred to thousand J levels arising from about 35 to 40 configurations ranging from the anion down to the highly charged cation are considered as references. It is shown that introducing a small common energetic shift of all valence energies reduces the errors in the parameter adjustment considerably. Results of highly correlated atomic and molecular test calculations using large basis sets and basis set extrapolation techniques are presented. To be submitted to Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (special volume on the occasion of Prof. Dr. H. Stoll's 60th birthday)     

Selective Solid Phase Extraction and Pre-Concentration of Heavy Metals from Seawater by Physically and Chemically Immobilized 4-Amino-3-Hydroxy-2-(2-Chlorobenzene)-Azo-1-Naphthalene Sulfonic Acid Silica Gel

4-Amino-3-hydroxy-2-(2-chlorobenzene)-azo-1-naphthalene sulfonic acid (AHCANSA) was used as a chelating modifier to improve the reactivity of the silica gel surface in terms of selective binding and extraction of heavy metal ions. The surface coverage values were found to be 0.488 and 0.473mmolg^–1 for the newly modified physically adsorbed silica gel phase (I) and chemically immobilized-AHCANSA phase (II), respectively. The modified silica gel phases (I, II) were tested for stability in different acidic buffer solutions (pH 1–6) and found to be highly resistant to hydrolysis and leaching by buffer solutions above pH 2. The application of these two phases as solid extractors for a series of mono-, di-, and tri-valent metal ions from aqueous solutions was also performed with different controlling factors such as the pH value of metal ion solutions and equilibrium shaking time. The mmolg^–1 metal capacity values determined by silica gel phases (I, II) were found to confirm high affinity and selectivity characters for binding with heavy metal ions such as Cr³⁺, Ni²⁺, Cu²⁺, Zn²⁺, Cd²⁺ and Pb²⁺ in a range of 0.250–0.483. The tested alkali and alkaline earth metals, Na⁺, K⁺, Mg²⁺ and Ca²⁺, were found to exhibit little interaction and binding ability with the modified silica gel phases. The selectivity characters incorporated into the modified silica gel phases were further utilized and applied in solid phase extraction and pre-concentration of trace concentration levels (1.0µgmL^–1 and 2.00–2.50ngmL^–1) from real seawater samples. The percentage recovery values determined for Cr³⁺, Cu²⁺, Zn²⁺, Cd²⁺ and Pb²⁺ were found to be in the range of 95.2–98.1±2.0–5.0%, and the pre-concentration recovery values for the same tested heavy metal ions were found to be in the range of 92.5–97.1±3.0–6.0% for the two newly modified silica gel phases with a pre-concentration factor of 500.Received December 20, 2002; accepted May 14, 2003 published online September 1, 2003