CLXVIII.—Some additive compounds derived from arsines

Composition of complex metal hydrides in polar solvents. I. Tertiary amines

“…Early workers in the area of metal borohydride chemistry observed that borane could be extracted from beryllium borohydride by trimethylaminel Be(BH4)2 + N(CH8)j -> HBeBH4 + BH3-N(CH3)3 (1) The symmetrical cleavage of metal borohydrides also has been employed in the preparation of transition metal hydrides. Recently bis (cyclopentadienyl) zirconium borohydride was shown to undergo borane extraction when allowed to react with trimethylamine2 (C6H6)2Zr(BH4)2 + N(CH3)3-(C«H5)2Zr(H)BH4 + BH3-N(CH3)3 (2) In addition to borane extraction, a complex borohydride ch.n react with a tertiary amine to form simple solvates8 of the borohydride as shown in eq 3.…”

(Presidential Address, 5th April 2000) The foundation of the Sydney School of Coordination Chemistry.

“…They also worked on additive compounds formed between tertiary arsines and the iodides of arsenic, bismuth, mercury, lead, tin, antimony and cadmium (Burrows and Turner, 1921b). The subject of their last collaboration was the preparation of certain tris(oxalato)ferrate(III) salts.…”

The Contributions of David P. Mellor, Frank P. Dwyer, and Ronald S. Nyholm to Coordination Chemistry

“…In Sydney Turner began a collaborative research effort with George Burrows (1888Burrows ( -1950, who had been appointed to the staff at the University of Sydney in 1919. This work was published in six papers in the Journal of the Chemical Society (4) and included one paper on metal-arsine complexes (5). In 1921 Turner returned to England, where he later became Professor of Chemistry at Bedford College, London and a Fellow of the Royal Society.…”