Oxidations of a trigonal-bipyramidal, high-spin Ni(II) dithiolate
complex of a pentadentate, N
3S
2-donor ligand,N1,N9-bis(imino-2-mer
captopropane)-1,5,9-triazanonane) ni
ckel(II), and the stru
cturally analogous Zn(II)
complex,lead to oxidations of the ligand. Oxidation of the Ni(II)
complex with I
2 produ
ces a novel Ni(II) ma
cro
cy
cli
c cationi
ccomplex
containing a monodentate disulfide ligand (
2). Crystals of the I
3- salt of the
complex form in the tri
clini
cspa
ce group
P1 with
cell dimensions
a = 8.508(3) Å,
b = 9.681(2) Å,
c = 14.066(4) Å, angles
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,
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chars/beta2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="middle"> = 91.61(3)
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,
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chars/gamma.gif" BORDER=0 > = 90.83(2)
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, and
Z = 2. The stru
cture was refined to
R = 6.31% and
Rw = 16.63% (
I > 2
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I)).Oxidation of the Ni(II)
complex with O
2 leads to the formation of a novel pentadentate bis-iminothio
carboxylate
complex with trigonal-bipyramidal geometry (
3). This neutral produ
ct
crystallizes in the mono
clini
c spa
ce group
P2
1/
c with
cell dimensions
a = 13.625(3) Å,
b = 7.605(5) Å,
c = 14.902(4) Å, angles
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,
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chars/beta2.gif" BORDER=0 ALIGN="middle"> =102.81(2)
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, and
Z = 4. The stru
cture was refined to
R = 7.18% and
Rw = 17.86% (
I > 2
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I)). Oxidation of theZn(II) dithiolate analogue with O
2 leads to the formation of the Zn(II)
complex of the pentadentate bis-iminothio
carboxylate ligand. The neutral
complex is isomorphous with the Ni(II)
complex and
crystallizes in themono
clini
c spa
ce group
P2
1/
c with
cell dimensions
a = 13.8465(4) Å,
b = 7.6453(2) Å,
c = 15.0165(6) Å, angles
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,
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, and
Z = 4. The stru
cture was refined to
R = 3.96% and
Rw = 9.45% (
I >2
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I)). Details of the
crystal stru
ctures are reported. Kineti
cs of the O
2 rea
ctions show that the rea
ctions of theNi(II) and Zn(II) dithiolates follow the rate law, Rate =
k2[
1][O
2], with
k2 = 1.81 M
-1 s
-1 for the Ni(II)
complex and
k2 = 1.93 × 10
-2 M
-1 s
-1 for the Zn(II)
complex. The O
2 oxidation of the high-spin Ni(II) thiolate
complex wasfound to follow a similar oxidation me
chanism to those of low-spin Ni(II)
complexes, whi
ch form transient persulfoxideintermediates that yield S-oxidation produ
cts. In the
case of the high-spin system reported here, the transientpersulfoxide intermediate gives rise to an alternative ligand oxidation produ
ct, a bis-iminothio
carboxylate
complex,be
cause of the rea
ctivity of the ligand, whi
ch
contains a methylene with a
cidi
c H atoms
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chars/alpha.gif" BORDER=0> to the thiolate sulfur. Theproposed me
chanism is supported by studies of the analogous Zn dithiolate
complex, whi
ch gives rise to theanalogous bis-iminothio
carboxylate produ
ct (
5).