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Title: Rate and mechanism of ligand exchange of tris(acetylacetonato)scandium(III) in acetonitrile

Journal Article · · Inorg. Chem.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ic00279a011· OSTI ID:5852801

Tris(acetylaceotnato)scandium(III) undergoes ligand exchange with the enolate form of acetylacetone in CD/sub 3/CN at 30-74/degree/C. The observed first-order rate constant, obtained by the /sup 1/H NMR method, is expressed by k/sub 0/ = k/sub 1//prime/(enol) + k/sub 2//prime/ at (complex) /approx equal/ 0.05 M. (Hacac) = 0.19 /minus/ 0.58 M, and (H/sub 2/O) = 0.026-0.26 M; k/sub 1//prime/ = 52 /plus minus/ 3 M/sup /minus/1/ s/sup /minus/1/ and k/sub 2//prime/ = 1.5 /plus minus/ 0.9 s/sup /minus/1/ at 56/degree/C. No water catalysis was observed. The k/sub 2//prime/ term is minor in the concentration region. The /Delta/H/double dagger/ and /Delta/S/double dagger/ values for k/sub 1//prime/ are 36 /plus minus/ 5 kJ mol/sup /minus/1/ and /minus/105 /plus minus/ 16 J K/sup /minus/1/ mol/sup /minus/1/, respectively. The deuterium isotope effect k/sub 1//prime/(H)/k/sub 1//prime/(D) was significant (ca. 5). The I/sub a/ mechanism is assigned to the rate-determining formation of an intermediate containing a one-ended acac/sup /minus// and a unidentate Hacac in the enol form. 16 refs., 3 figs., 4 tabs.

Research Organization:
Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan)
OSTI ID:
5852801
Journal Information:
Inorg. Chem.; (United States), Vol. 27:6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English