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Transition metal sulfate complexes or sulfato complexes are coordination complexes with one or more sulfate ligands. Sulfate binds to metals through one, two, three, or all four oxygen atoms.[1] Common are complexes where sulfate is unidentate or chelating bidentate. Examples are respectively [Co(tren)(NH3)(SO4)]+ (tren = tris(2-aminoethyl)amine)[2] and Co(phen)2SO4.[3] All four oxygen atoms of sulfate bond to metals in some Dawson-type polyoxometalates, e.g. [S2Mo18O62]4-.[4]
Sulfate as a counterion
Being the conjugate base of a strong acid (sulfuric acid), sulfate is not basic. It is more commonly a counterion in coordination chemistry. Tutton's salts, with the formula M'2M(SO4)2(H2O)6 (M' = K+, etc.; M = Fe2+, etc.), illustrate the ability of water to outcompete sulfate as a ligand for M2+. Similarly alums, such as chrome alum ([K(H2O)6][Cr(H2O)6][SO4]2), features [Cr(H2O)6]3+ with noncoordinated sulfate. In a related vein, some sulfato complexes confirmed by X-ray crystallography, convert to simple aquo complexes when dissolved in water. Copper(II) sulfate examplifies this behavior, sulfate is bonded to copper in the crystal but dissociates upon dissolution.
Synthesis
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Sulfato complexes are commonly produced by reaction of metal sulfates with other ligands.
In some cases, sulfato complexes are produced from sulfur dioxide:[6]
- Pt(O2)(PPh3)2 + SO2 → Pt(SO4)(PPh3)2 (PPh3 = triphenylphosphine)
Sulfato complexes also arise by air-oxidation of metal sulfides.[7]
Reactions
Sulfato complexes are susceptible to protonation of uncoordinated oxygen atoms.[8]
References
- ↑ Papatriantafyllopoulou, Constantina; Aromi, Guillem; Tasiopoulos, Anastasios J.; Nastopoulos, Vassilios; Raptopoulou, Catherine P.; Teat, Simon J.; Escuer, Albert; Perlepes, Spyros P. (2007). "Use of the Sulfato Ligand in 3d‐Metal Cluster Chemistry: A Family of Hexanuclear Nickel(II) Complexes with 2‐Pyridyl‐Substituted Oxime Ligands". European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2007 (18): 2761–2774. doi:10.1002/ejic.200700063.
- ↑ Chun, Hyungphil; Jackson, W. Gregory; McKeon, Josephine A.; Somoza, Fernando B.; Bernal, Ivan (2000). "The Interaction between Amminehalocobalt(III) Cations and Polythionate Anions: Hydrogen-Bonding Patterns and S–S Bond Cleavage Reactions". European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2000: 189–193. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0682(200001)2000:1<189::AID-EJIC189>3.0.CO;2-V.
- ↑ Zhong, Kai-Long (2013). "Bis(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2 N , N ′)(sulfato-κ2 O , O ′)cobalt(II) propane-1,2-diol monosolvate". Acta Crystallographica Section E. 69 (Pt 1): m26. doi:10.1107/S1600536812049616. PMC 3588351. PMID 23476325.
- ↑ Juraja, Suzy; Vu, Truc; Richardt, Peter J. S.; Bond, Alan M.; Cardwell, Terence J.; Cashion, John D.; Fallon, Gary D.; Lazarev, Georgii; Moubaraki, Boujemaa; Murray, Keith S.; Wedd, Anthony G. (2002). "Electrochemical, Spectroscopic, Structural, and Magnetic Characterization of the Reduced and Protonated α-Dawson Anions in [Fe(η5-C5Me5)2]5[HS2Mo18O62]·3HCONMe2·2Et2O and [NBu4]5[HS2Mo18O62]·2H2O1". Inorganic Chemistry. 41 (5): 1072–1078. doi:10.1021/ic010780s. PMID 11874340.
- ↑ Schaniel, Dominik; Woike, Theo; Behrnd, Norwid-R.; Hauser, Jürg; Krämer, Karl W.; Todorova, Teodora; Delley, Bernard (2009). "Photogeneration of Nitrosyl Linkage Isomers in Octahedrally Coordinated Platinum Complexes in the Red Spectral Range". Inorganic Chemistry. 48 (23): 11399–11406. doi:10.1021/ic901392q. PMID 19863116.
- ↑ Cook, Christopher David.; Jauhal, G. S. (1967). "Oxidation of Coordinated Ligands. Sulfato and Nitrato Complexes of Platinum". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 89 (12): 3066–3067. doi:10.1021/ja00988a057.
- ↑ Kim, Chang G.; Coucouvanis, Dimitri (1993). "Dimerization of the molybdenum complex[(SO4)Mo(O)(mu-S)2Mo(O)(SO4)]2- Dianions Stabilized by a Quadruply Bridging Sulfate Ligand and Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding by the [(CH3)2NH2]+ Cations. Structures of the [(CH3)2NH2]6-x(Et4N)x[(SO4)Mo(O)(mu-S)2Mo(O)(SO4)]2(SO4)] Aggregates (x = 1, 2, 2.5)". Inorganic Chemistry. 32 (11): 2232–2233. doi:10.1021/ic00063a004.
- ↑ Scheidt, W. Robert; Lee, Young Ja; Finnegan, Michael G. (1988). "Reactions of Sulfur Dioxide with Iron Porphyrinates and the Crystal Structure of (Hydrogen sulfato)(tetraphenylporphinato)iron(III) Hemibenzene Solvate". Inorganic Chemistry. 27 (26): 4725–4730. doi:10.1021/ic00299a010.