The serious study of the reaction mechanisms of transition metal com plexes began some five decades ago. Work was initiated in the United States and Great Britain; the pioneers ofthat era were, inalphabetical order, F. Higgision, E.1. Wilkins.A larger community of research scientists then entered the field, many of them stu dents ofthose just mentioned.
Interest spread elsewhere as well, principally to Asia, Canada, and Europe. Before long, the results ofindividual studies were being consolidated into models, many of which traced their origins to the better-established field of mechanistic organic chemistry. For a time this sufficed, but major revisions and new assignments of mechanism became necessary for both ligand sub stitution and oxidation-reduction reactions.
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Mechanistic inorganic chemistry thus took on a shape of its own. This process has brought us to the present time. Interests have expanded both to include new and more complex species (e.g., metalloproteins) and a wealth of new experimental techniques that have developed mechanisms in ever-finer detail. This is the story the author tells, and in so doing he weaves in the identities of the investigators with the story he has to tell. This makes an enjoyable as well as informative reading.
Uprazhneniya po obucheniyu granite dlya doshkoljnikov. The phthalimide N-oxyl (PINO) radical was generated by the oxidation of N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI) with Pb(OAc) 4 in acetic acid. The molar absorptivity of PINO • is 1.36 × 10 3 L mol - 1 cm - 1 at λ max 382 nm. The PINO radical decomposes slowly with a second-order rate constant of 0.6 ± 0.1 L mol - 1 s - 1 at 25 °C. The reactions of PINO • with substituted toluenes, benzaldehydes, and benzyl alcohols were investigated under an argon atmosphere. The second-order rate constants were correlated by means of a Hammett analysis.
The reactions with toluenes and benzyl alcohols have better correlations with σ + (ρ = −1.3 and −0.41), and the reaction with benzaldehydes correlates better with σ (ρ = −0.91). The kinetic isotope effect was also studied and significantly large values of k H/ k D were obtained: 25.0 ( p-xylene), 27.1 (toluene), 27.5 (benzaldehyde), and 16.9 (benzyl alcohol) at 25 °C.
From the Arrhenius plot for the reactions with p-xylene and p-xylene- d 10, the difference of the activation energies, E a D − E a H, was 12.6 ± 0.8 kJ mol - 1 and the ratio of preexponential factors, A H/ A D, was 0.17 ± 0.05. These findings indicate that quantum mechanical tunneling plays an important role in these reactions.