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Title: CO-ORDINATION COMPLEXES OF NIOBIUM AND TANTALUM. I. COMPLEX FORMATION OF NIOBIUM AND TANTALUM PENTAHALIDES AND NIOBIUM(V) OXYCHLORIDE WITH ACETYLACETONE IN ALCOHOL SOLUTIONS AND FORMATION OF OXO-DICHLORO-ACETYLACETONATO NIOBIUM(V)

Journal Article · · Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry (England) Merged with Inorg. Nucl. Chem. Lett. to form Polyhedron

Complexes of the type MX/sub 2/AcAc(OR)/sub 2/, where M = Nb(V), Ta(V); X = Cl,Br; AcAc = acetylacetone; and R == CH/sub 5/, C/sub 2/H/sub 5/ were prepared from the metal pentahalides and acetylacetone in the parent alcoholic solutions. They are stable crystalline substances, but in solutions in alcohols interactions with solvent molecules occur, as is evident from conductivity and molecular weight studies. Powder x-ray diffraction photographs showed that the methoxo chloro and bromo derivatives of niobium and tantalum are isomorphous and that the analogous ethoxo complexes form another isomorphous group. Infrared spectra were analyzed and a tentative assignment of some characteristic vibrational modes is given. Metal-ligand vibrational modes appear at frequencies close to those in other metal acetylacetonates and metal alkoxides. Under similar experimental conditions, starting from NbOCl/sub 3/ and acetylacetone in methyl and ethyl alcohol solutions, complex derivatives of the same type, NbCl/ sub 2/AcAc(OR)/sub 2/, were isolated. These results imply the unexpected solvolysis of the niobiumoxygen bond in alcohol solutions. A compound of the formula STANbOCl/sub 2/AcAc!/sub x/ was isolated from the reaction of NbOCl/sub 3/ with acetylacetone. Infrared spectrum of this oxodichloro-acetylacetonato- niobium (V) revealed the presence of co-ordinated acetylacetone and the vibrational modes of the niobium-oxygen double bond. Deuteration studies permitted the assignment of some bands. (auth)

Research Organization:
Univ. of Zagreb; Rudjer Boskovic Inst., Zagreb
NSA Number:
NSA-17-037192
OSTI ID:
4636661
Journal Information:
Journal of Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry (England) Merged with Inorg. Nucl. Chem. Lett. to form Polyhedron, Vol. Vol: 25; Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-63
Country of Publication:
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Language:
English