The pH-dependent
1H NMR characteristics of a series of Co
III-(polyamin)-aqua andCo
III-(polyamin)-(polyalcohol) complexes, [Co(tach)(ino-
3-
O1,3,5)]
3+ (
13+), [Co(tach)(ino-
3-
1,2,6)]
3+ (
23+),[Co(tach)(taci-
-
1-
2-O
2,6)]
3+ (
33+), [Co(ditame)(H
2O)]
3+ (
43+), and [Co(tren)(H
2O)
2]
3+ (
53+), were studiedin D
2O by means of titration experiments (tach =
all-
cis-cyclohexane-1,3,5-triamine, ino =
cis-inositol, taci= 1,3,5-triamino-1,3,5-trideoxy-
cis-inositol, tren = tris(2-aminoethyl)amine, ditame = 2,2,6,6-tetrakis-(aminomethyl)-4-aza-heptane). A characteristic shift was observed for H(-C) hydrogen atoms in the
-position of a coordinated amino group upon deprotonation of a coordinated oxygen donor. For a
cis-H-C-N-Co-O-H ar
rangement, deprotonation of the oxygen donor resulted in an additional shielding(shift to lower frequency) of the H(-C) proton, whereas for a
trans-H-C-N-Co-O-H ar
rangement,deprotonation resulted in a deshielding (shift to higher frequency). The effect appears to be of rather generalna
ture: it is observed for primary (
13+-
53+), secondary (
43+), and tertiary (
53+) amino groups, and for thedeprotonation of an alcohol (
13+-
33+) or a water (
43+,
53+) ligand. Spin-orbit-corrected density functionalcalculations show that the high-frequency deprotonation shift for the t
rans-position is largely caused by adifferential cobalt-centered spin-orbit effect on the hydrogen nuclear shielding. This effect is conformationdependent due to a Karplus-type behavior of the spin-orbit-induced Fermi-contact shift and thus onlysignificant for an approximately antiperiplanar H-C-N-Co ar
rangement. The differential spin-orbitcontribution to the deprotonation shift in the t
rans-position arises from the much larger spin-orbit shift forthe protonated than for the deprotonated state. This is in
turn due to a t
rans-effect of the deprotonated(hydroxo or alkoxo) ligand, which weakens the t
rans Co-N bond and thereby interrupts the Fermi-contactmechanism for t
ransfer of the spin-orbit-induced spin polarization to the hydrogen nucleus in question.The unexpectedly large long-
range spin-orbit effects found here for 3d metal complexes are traced backto small energy denominators in the per
turbation theoretical expressions of the spin-orbit shifts.