Issue 0, 1968

Electron spin resonance spectra of four-, five-, and six-co-ordinate cobalt(II) isonitrile complexes, and of the pentacyanocobaltate(II) ion

Abstract

E.s.r. spectra, taken at X- and Q-band, are presented for solutions at 293°K, and glasses at 77 and 150°K, of a series of low spin cobalt(II) isonitrile complexes Co(CNR)62+, Co(CNR)52+, Co(CNR)42+, and Co(CNR)4X22+(X = water, pyridine, or solvent). The spectra of the Co(CN)53– ion were also measured in methanol, and in water by a rapid quenching technique. The symmetry of these complexes is C4v or D4h[although the Co(CN)53– ion may have C2v symmetry]; the unpaired electron is in the |0〉 orbital. The value of g⊥ decreases from the four- > five- > six-co-ordinate complex, and this may probably be interpreted in terms of a simple geometry change about the cobalt. From a comparison of the glass and the solution spectra, the components of the hyperfine coupling A, and B, have opposite signs, thus κ values for the cobalt are calculated (ca. 0·2 for the six-, and 0·05–0·1 for the five-co-ordinate ions). The lack of 59Co hyperfine splitting in the spectra of the five-co-ordinate ions in solutions may be due to a rapid change from square pyramidal-trigonal bipyramidal geometry. The spectra of the tetrakis(isonitrile) cobalt(II) dihalides show that the contributions from ζσπ dominate the g values, in agreement with an electron being in the |0〉 orbital. Electron delocalisation on the halogen increases as Cl < Br < I.

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J. Chem. Soc. A, 1968, 2918-2927

Electron spin resonance spectra of four-, five-, and six-co-ordinate cobalt(II) isonitrile complexes, and of the pentacyanocobaltate(II) ion

J. P. Maher, J. Chem. Soc. A, 1968, 2918 DOI: 10.1039/J19680002918

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