Novel ligand effect on cobalt(III) complex promoted hydrolysis of a phosphate diester
Abstract
Bis-p-nitrophenyl phosphate when bound to the cobalt(III) complex [(trpn)Co(OH)(OH2)][trpn = tris-(3-aminopropyl)amine] is hydrolysed about three hundred times more rapidly than when bound to [(tren)Co(OH)(OH2)][tren = tris-(2-aminoethyl)amine], and ca. ten billion times more rapidly than the free phosphate diester.