The perfect separation
with optimal productivity, yield, and purity
is very difficult to achieve. Despite its high selectivity, in crystallization
unwanted impurities routinely contaminate a crystallization product.
Awareness of the mechanism by which the impurity incorporates is key
to understanding how to achieve crystals of higher purity. Here, we
present a general workflow which can rapidly identify the mechanism
of impurity incorporation responsible for poor impurity rejection
during a crystallization. A series of four general experiments using
standard laboratory instrumentation is required for successful discrimination
between incorporation mechanisms. The workflow is demonstrated using
four examples of active pharmaceutical ingredients contaminated with
structurally related organic impurities. Application of this workflow
allows a targeted problem-solving approach to the management of impurities
during industrial crystallization development, while also decreasing
resources expended on process development.
The cyanide ion plays a key role in a number of industrially relevant chemical processes, such as the extraction of gold and silver from low grade ores. Metal cyanide compounds were arguably some of the earliest coordination complexes studied and can be traced back to the serendipitous discovery of Prussian blue by Diesbach in 1706. By contrast, heavier cyanide analogues, such as the cyaphide ion, CP − , are virtually unexplored despite the enormous potential of such ions as ligands in coordination compounds and extended solids. This is ultimately due to the lack of a suitable synthesis of cyaphide salts. Herein we report the synthesis and isolation of several magnesium−cyaphido complexes by reduction of i Pr 3 SiOCP with a magnesium(I) reagent. By analogy with Grignard reagents, these compounds can be used for the incorporation of the cyaphide ion into the coordination sphere of metals using a simple salt-metathesis protocol.
Oxidative addition of inert bonds at low-valent main-group centres is becoming a major class of reactivity for these species. The reverse reaction, reductive elimination, is possible in some cases but far rarer. Here, we present a mechanistic study of reductive elimination from Al(iii) centres and unravel ligand effects in this process. Experimentally determined activation and thermodynamic parameters for the reductive elimination of Cp*H from Cp*2AlH are reported, and this reaction is found to be inhibited by the addition of Lewis bases. We find that C-H oxidative addition at Al(i) centres proceeds by initial protonation at the low-valent centre.
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