Published April 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

Effect of solvent on reactions of coordination complexes - thorium(IV)-catal ysed aquation of oxalatopentaamminecobalt(III) in aqueous-alcohol media

  • 1. Utkal Univ., Bhubaneswar (India). Dept. of Chemistry

Description

The kinetics of title reaction have been investigated in aqueous alcohol media using methanol, propan-2-ol, t-butanol and ethyleneglycol. The efficiency of Th4+ in promoting water for C2O4OTh2+ substitution at Co(III) centre of the binuclear species (NH3)5CoC2O4Th5+ is 20 times larger (kM/kH∼20 at 50degC and fully aqueous medium) than that for H+ indicating importance of the charges and Lewis basicities of the leaving groups. With increasing proportion of any of the cosolvents (vol % of alcohols 10, 20 and 50) the rate constant for the binuclear complex (kM) decreases only to a small extent and the title reaction in D2O-H2O medium is only slightly slower than in fully aqueous media (kM(H2O)/kM(D2O)= 1.12 for 50%(v/v)D2O/H2O at 65degC). (auth or). 13 refs., 3 tabs

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Indian Journal of Chemistry, Section A
Journal Volume
29
Journal Issue
4
Series
Indian J. Chem., Sect. A.
Journal Page Range
379-382
ISSN
0376-4710
CODEN
IJCAD

Conference

Title
National symposium on dynamics and reaction mechanism.
Dates
16-19 Mar 1989.
Place
Jaipur (India).