Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Electronic effects and trans substitution in octahedral complexes of chromium(III)

Journal Article · · Inorg. Chem.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ic00134a058· OSTI ID:5226019
Kinetics and equilibrium data were determined for the formation of 1:1 adducts of NCS/sup -/ with four complexes of the general formula (H/sub 2/O)/sub 5/CrR/sup 2 +/ (R = CH/sub 2/OH, CH/sub 2/OCH/sub 3/, CH/sub 2/CN, and CH(CH/sub 3/)/sub 2/). The kinetic data for the approach to equilibrium follow the rate law k/sub obsd/ = (A(SCN/sup -/) + B)/(1 + C(SCN/sup -/)) and are consistent with both a limiting S/sub N/1 (or D) and a dissociative ion-pairing (I/sub D/) mechanism. The rate constants of the trans-water exchange in these and two previously studied complexes of the same general type (R = CHLl/sub 2/ and CH/sub 2/Cl) were approximated as a ratio A/C. The correlation of these rate constants and ones for the trans-water exchange in complexes Cr(H/sub 2/O)/sub 5/X/sup 2 +/ (X = I/sup -/, Cl/sup -/, and SCN/sup -/) with the electron-donating ability of the labilizing groups R and X as measured by a Hammett substituent constant was examined. The same correlation was obtained for a limited number of available rate constants for the Cr-NCS bond breaking in the adducts trans-Cr(H/sub 2/0)/sub 4/R(NCS)+, indicating that the trans-labilizing ability of group R does not depend on the nature of the leaving group. The complex (H/sub 2/O)/sub 5/CrCH(CH/sub 3/)/sub 2//sup 2 +/ reacts with SCN/sup -/ more slowly than predicted by this correlation.
OSTI ID:
5226019
Journal Information:
Inorg. Chem.; (United States), Journal Name: Inorg. Chem.; (United States) Vol. 21:4; ISSN INOCA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English