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dc.contributor.authorGennett, Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.authorGrzeszczyk, Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.authorJefferson, Anneen_US
dc.contributor.authorSidur, Kathyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-07-19T20:05:40Zen_US
dc.date.available2006-07-19T20:05:40Zen_US
dc.date.issued1987-06-17en_US
dc.identifier.citationInorganic Chemistry 26N12 (1987) 1856-1860en_US
dc.identifier.issn1520-510Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1850/2252en_US
dc.description.abstractThe electrochemical oxidative behavior of a series of cyclopentadienyl and pentamethylcyclopentadienyl carbonyl complexes of rhodium and cobalt is described. The voltammetric, polarographic, and coulometric data from the oxidations of (n^5-C5H5)Rh(CO)2, (n^5-C5H5)Co(CO)2, (n^5-C5(CH3)5)CO(CO)2, and (n^5-C5(CH3)5)Rh(CO)2 are reported. The electrochemical experiments were conducted in methylene chloride at platinum and mercury electrodes. The cyclopentadienyl complexes (n^5-C5H5)Rh(CO)2 and (n^5-C5H5)CO(CO)2 exhibited oxidative behavior dependent on electrode material. At a platinum-bead electrode there was evidence that the organometallic solute adsorbs to the electrode surface, while at a hanging-mercury-drop electrode it was found that mercuric chloride formed at the surface of the electrode at potentials greater than 0.200 V vs. SCE. This HgC12 reacts with the solute to form an insoluble Lewis acid-base adduct, [Cl2Hg]*[M(CO)2(n^5-C5H5)], where M = Rh, Co. These adducts were also formed from the homogeneous oxidation of the organometallic solute with [(n^5-C5H5)2Fe] [PF6], but only when mercury was present in the solution. The pentamethylcyclopentadienyl complexes (n^5-C5(CH3)5)CO(CO)2 and (n^5-C5(CH3)5)Rh(CO)2 were found to undergo chemically reversible one-electron oxidations to relatively stable cation radicals at both platinum and mercury electrodes. There was no evidence of either pentamethylcyclopentadienyl compbx reacting with the mercuric chloride. Extended Huckel calculations were conducted on all four complexes. Correlations were seen between the experimental observations and Huckel predictions of adduct formation and radical stability.en_US
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherThe American Chemical Society: Inorganic Chemistryen_US
dc.subjectElectrochemistryen_US
dc.subjectElectrodesen_US
dc.subjectOxidationen_US
dc.titleUnusual oxidative behavior of (.eta.5-C5R5)M(CO)2 (R = H, CH3; M = Rh, Co) complexes at mercury and platinum electrodesen_US
dc.typeAbstracten_US
dc.identifier.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic00259a010


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