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Title: | Studies in Organo-Rhodium and -Iridium Chemistry and Mass Spectra of Some Organo-Transition Metal Complexes |
Authors: | Moseley, Keith |
Advisor: | Maitlis, P. M. |
Department: | Chemistry |
Keywords: | organo-rhodium, iridium, chemistry, mass spectra, metal complexes, reaction, catalyst |
Publication Date: | Dec-1969 |
Abstract: | <p> Reaction of the hydrated trichlorides of rhodium and Iridium with hexamethyldewarbenzene gave the complexes, (C5Me5MCl2)2 (M=Rh, Ir). A mechanism for this reaction is proposed.</p> <p> The dichloro complexes, (C5Me5MCl2)2, were reacted with a number of di- and tri-enes in ethanol in the presence of base and gave a variety of pentamethylcyclopentadienyl complexes of M(l) and M(lll). Evidence for a hydrido intermediate is presented and the hydrido- and deuterido- complexes, C5Me5IrH(D)ClPPh3, were isolated and characterised.</p> <p> The isomers endo-H and exo-H pentamethylcyclopentadiene(cyclopentadienyl) rhodium were isolated and showed significant differences in their properties. Cyclooctadienes reacted with (C5Me5MCl2)2 to give C5Me5M(1,5-C8H12) via the intermediacy of the π-2-cyclooctenyl complexes C5Me5MCl(C8H13); mechanisms are presented to account for the observed products. Cyclohexadienes gave the complexes, C5Me5M(1,3-C6H8). 1,4-Cyclohexadiene was isomerised to 1,3-C6H8; the rhodium complex, C5Me5Rh(1,3-C6H8), was a very active catalyst for the disproportionation of 1,3-C6H8 to cyclohexene and benzene, both ethanol and base were cocatalysts.</p> <p> Mass spectral data for these and other organo-metallic complexes are presented.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/19768 |
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