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Sulfur Oxides as Ligands in Coordination Compounds
Author(s) -
Schenk Wolfdieter A.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198700981
Subject(s) - sulfur , reactivity (psychology) , transition metal , chemistry , molecule , coordination complex , metal , atom (system on chip) , sulfur dioxide , coordination number , inorganic chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , ion , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , computer science , embedded system
Donor molecules undergo dramatic changes in their chemical properties on coordination to a transition‐metal atom. Highly reactive species can be trapped and studied as ligands. Conversely, stable compounds can be activated to undergo novel reactions. Sulfur dioxide complexes have generally been studied from a structural viewpoint, their reactivity having been somewhat neglected. The unstable sulfur oxides SO, S 2 O, and S 2 O 2 are still often regarded as laboratory curiosities. Their successful stabilization in transition‐metal complexes has now made them accessible to detailed study, in the course of which many relationships to the chemistry of SO 2 complexes have become apparent.