Annual review of organometallic and nitrosyl photochemistry: 2003

The Preparation, Structural Characteristics, and Physical Chemical Properties of Metal-Nitrosyl Complexes

“…Organometallic metal nitrosyl complexes represent a large portion of the subject and the methods of preparing these complexes have been published in several helpful texts [7, 28, 138, 139]; therefore, it is minimally discussed here. Instead we picked a few recent examples that deal with controlling the reactivity of nitric oxide at transition-metal centers, because of their fundamental significance and possible biological relevance.…”

Multiple Photochemical Reaction Pathways in a Ni(II) Coordination Compound

“…Photochemical reactions of transition metal coordination compounds in solution have been studied extensively and typically involve photosubstitution (commonly photosolvation) and photoredox (usually metal oxidation). − Studies of the photochemical reactivity of Ni(II) complexes are relatively rare; − photoelimination of a ligand is a common reaction pathway. In first row transition metal coordination compound photochemistry, photosubstitution and photoelimination almost always involve breaking a metal−ligand bond. − ,− Only in rare instances involving reactive ligands is internal ligand bond breaking important (e.g., N−N bond breaking in an azido ligand to form a coordinated nitrene and dinitrogen) …”

Chromium, molybdenum and tungsten

“…Reviews have been published on the following topics: (i) metal complexes of saccharin, 1 (ii) the coordination chemistry of vitamin C, 2 (iii) chromium(III) complexes as related to mechanistic comparison of high-fidelity and error-prone DNA polymerases and ligases involved in DNA repair, 3 (iv) functionalisation of polyoxometallates by carboxylato and azido ligands, 4 (v) the literature of organometallic and nitrosyl photochemistry, 5 (vi) supramolecular coordination networks based on octacyanometallates, 6 (vii) chemistry and magnetism of cyanido-bridged d-f assemblies, 7 (viii) the chemistry of the carbon-transition metal double and triple bond, 8 (ix) application of neutral amidines and guanidines in coordination chemistry, 9 (x) developments in the coordination chemistry of stibine ligands, 10 (xi) ortho-metallated transition metal complexes derived from tertiary phosphine and arsine ligands, 11 (xii) photochemistry of azide-moiety containing inorganic compounds, 12 (xiii) homoleptic, mononuclear transition metal complexes of 1,2-dioxolenes, 13 (xiv) photochemical reactions of Group 6 metal carbonyls with alkenes, 14 (xv) paramagnetic organometallic Cr(II)/Cr(III) redox-active catalysts, 15 (xvi) reactions catalysed by water-soluble molybdocenes, 16 (xvii) chiral salen complexes as recoverable and reusable homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, 17 (xviii) synthesis and catalytic applications of mononuclear organomolybdenum(VI) dioxo complexes, 18 (xviii) transition metals in organic synthesis, 19,20 and (xix) the migration and cleavage of substituents from donor atoms in coordination compounds of transition metals. 21…”