Pyrazine Complexes of Octacyanometallates of Mo(IV) and W(IV) With 8-hydroxyquinoline: Synthesis,characterisation and thermal studies

The complexes formed by photosubstitution of pyrazine (Pz) in octacyanomolybdate(IV) and -tungstate(IV) with 8-hydroxyquinoline have been assigned the formulae [Mo(CN)₂(OH)₂(Pz)₂(OX)] and [W(CN)₂(OH)₂(Pz)₂(OX)·1.5H₂O]. Coordination of Pz as an unidentate ligand by donating a lone pair of electron from nitrogen is shown by an absorption peak between 8–11 µ. Mechanism for the thermal decomposition of the complexes has been given. The formation of tungsten metal as residue in case of II has been confirmed by XRD analysis. The kinetic and thermodynamic parameters like activation energy (E_a), pre-exponential factor (A) and entropy of activation (S^#) were calculated employing different integral methods of Doyle, Coats and Redfern and Arrhenius.H for each stage of decomposition was obtained from DSC.This revised version was published online in November 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.