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INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 309, Issue 1-2, Pages 72-76Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1693(00)00235-8
Keywords
rhodium complexes; cyclic voltammetry; electrochemical oxidation
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Cyclic voltammetric (CV) studies revealed a direct relationship between the irreversible oxidation potentials of Rh(I) to Rh(III) in complexes of the type [Rh(I)(beta -diketonato)(CO)(PPh3)] and the pK(a)-values of the free beta -diketones dibenzoylmethane (Hdbm), benzoylacetone (Hba), benzoyltrifluoroacetone (Hbtfa) and trifluoroacetone (Htfaa). More electronegative beta -diketone ligands remove electron density from the rhodium metal, making the complex a stronger Lewis acid and less reactive towards oxidative addition. The effect of different solvents on the reduction potential of these complexes proved solvent co-ordination during the electrochemical oxidation of square planar Rh(I) to the octahedral Rh(III). A direct relationship was obtained between the irreversible reduction potential and the solvent donicity of the solvent acetonitrile, methanol, dimethylformamide and pyridine. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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