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Organometallic Nomenclature Flashcards

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Describe the following bond

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  • σ bond
  • no nodal planes
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Describe the following bond

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  • π bond
  • one nodal plane
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Describe the following bond

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  • δ bond
  • two nodal planes
  • due to the overlap of the 4 lobs of the d-orbitals
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What does ηⁿ stand for (eta)?

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  • Some (unsaturated) ligands can bind through more than one carbon atom (ⁿ)
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What does μₙ mean (mu)?

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  • Some ligands may bridge more than one metal centre (ₙ)
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What are the 4 main types of organometallic complexes

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  • Ionic (charge separated)
  • Electron deficient
  • σ-bonding only
  • π bonding
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What is an Ionic (charge seperated) complex?

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Only with the most electropositive early elements
Highly reactive and unstable
More stable if R can be stabilised by delocalisation or steric bulk

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What is an Electron deficient complex?

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Insufficient electrons to fill valence orbitals and form 2-centre-2-electron bonds between all atoms
Results in multi-centre bonding between R and two or more metal centres

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Describe σ-bonding only complexes

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Occurs with closed-shell transitional metal and main group centres, often leading to volatile compounds

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Describe π-bonding complexes

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  • This is the interaction of π and π’ orbitals of organic ligands with metal-based orbitals
  • This is especially prevalent with transition metals and zero-valent lanthanides
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How do you work out the formal oxidation state

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= charges on complex - sum of formal ligand charges

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How do you work out the dⁿ electron count

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dⁿ = metal group number - oxidation state

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Which ligands have a -1 formal charge

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  • Alkyl
  • aryl
  • H
  • η¹-allyl
  • η¹-cyclopentadienyl (Cp)
  • halide
  • NO
  • OR
  • NR₂ (amide)
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Which ligands have a 0 formal charge

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  • CO
  • N₂
  • PR₃
  • NR₃
  • OR₂
  • RNC
  • pyridine
  • CR₂
  • Alkene
  • butadiene
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What is Coordinate unsaturation?

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  • Compounds wwhich have less than 18-electron count are said to be ‘coordinately unsaturated’ and there may be a tendency to add further ligands
  • This is because there must be one or more vacant orbital(s) available - hence likely to be reactive and unstable
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What is the Isolobal analogy?

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  • This relates two fragments (often an organometallic fragment to an organic fragment)
  • The two fragments are said to be isolobal if the:
  • Number, Symmetry Properties, Approximate Energy, and Shape (extent in space) of their frontier orbtials, as well as number of electrns occuping them, are similar
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A consequence of the Isolobal Analogy is that if molecules are contructed from isolobal fragments, they themselves are isolobal
Hence H₃-C-CH₃, (CO)₅Mn-CH₃, and (CO)₅Mn-Mn(CO)₅ are all isolobal to another because….

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Mn(CO)₅ is isolobal to CH₃

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What is an issue with the isolobal analogy?

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The isolobal analogy does not say absolutely that a stable compound will result, it only rationalises that bonding may be feasible

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What is the orbital arrangement for a ML₆ arrangement?
(metal with 6 ligands)

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sp₃d₂

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What is the orbital arrangement for a ML₅ arrangement?

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sp₃d₂
but one of the hybrids is unused

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Going from ML₆, ML₅, ML₄ …. and so on
What happens as a ligand is removed?

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The corresponding frontier orbtial pointing towards the vacant site becomes non-bonding

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What is the orbtial arrangement for the ML₄ arrangment?

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sp₃d₂
but two of the hybrids are unused

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What is the core idea of isolobal fragments?

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In theory you can switch any isolobal fragments out and it will form the same structure

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What factor can prevent you switching between two isolobal units?

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Stability: a lack of decomposition of the pure compound in the absence of a reaction partner
This can be thermodynamic (stable or unstable) OR kinetic stability (inset or labile)

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Compared woth M-N, M-O, and M-halide bonds, M-C must be considered

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Weak

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What happens to the M-C enthalpies of transition metal alkyls compared to the main group elements M-C bond?

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Equal
(F-block contraction on 2nd and 3rd block in the d-block are same size)

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The enthalpy of the M-C bond …….. with increasing atomic number for the main group elements

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Decreases
(Down the group the M atom is getting larger, the valance electrons are in more diffuse orbitals and the overlap is not as effective)
Hence the bond is weaker

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What happens to M-C bond enthalpy for transition metal triad with increasing atomic number

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Increases
(d & f-block contraction)

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due to the M-C bond enthalpy decreasing with increasing atomic number, you would expect the transition metal alkyl should be more stable than lead alkyl (4th period)
However this is not the case, why?

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  • The reason for the difference in stability is no thermodynamic but kinetics
  • PbEt₄ decomposes by M-C bond homolysis (high energy process) as Pb has a full octet (filled 5d shell)
  • Essentially like hitting with a sledgehammer, forming two radicals (high energy and slow)
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Why are the transitional metal organometallics less stable than main group (kinetics)

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  • Transition metal organometallics have a vacant d-orbital that my decompose by β or reductive elimination (lower energy, hence easier to break)
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We don’t want a formed organometallic complex to decompose by β-hydride elimination
So how do we avoid this?

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  • Use ligands which don’t have β-hydride available (can’t eliminate if there is no hydrogen in the first place)
  • Make the potental products of decomposition unfavourable (e.g. ring strain)
  • Formation of arynes from arenes can be prevent by using otho-substituents
  • Bulky ligands
  • Saturate the Coordination sphere
  • Obey the Pauling Electronegativity Principle (less charged - the less reactive)
  • Make 18-electron compounds

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