A new preparative route to the only neutral chromium CV> oxide fluoride, chromium oxide trifluoride, has been accomplished by the reaction of xenon difluoride with chromyl fluoride at high temperature. The chromium oxide trifluoride is produced as crystals which are suitable for single crystal studies. In reactions of chromium oxide trifluoride with alkali and alkaline metal fluorides in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, new chromium(V) oxide fluoride salts were obtained; these salts were not of high purity due to unknown problems. An attempt to prepare chromium oxide tetrafluoride by the reaction of xenon difluoride with chromyl fluoride in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride failed to produce the desired product.
2The new chromiumCVI) complexes naphthyridinium chlorochromate CNapCC), pyrazinium chlorochromate CPzCC), pyrazinium-N-oxide chlorochromate CPzOCC), tripyridinium chlorochromate CTPCC), naphthyridinium dichromate CNapDC), pyrazinium trichromate CPzTC), and pyrazine chromiumCVI) oxide CPzCA) were prepared; the chlorochromates were readily produced as orange crystalline products in 6M HCl, the dichromate and trichromate complexes were produced in distilled water as crystalline products, and the chromium (VI) oxide complex was produced by the inert atmosphere reaction of pyrazine and chromium trioxide in dichloromethane.The chromiumCVI) complexes NapCC, PzCC, PzOCC, TPCC, and NapDC were all studied as oxidizing agents for the oxidation of alcohols. Except for PzOCC, all of these complexes are milder oxidants than pyridinium chlorochromate CPCC), and NapDC is highly selective for the oxidation of benzyl alcohol. Inf rared Spectrum of CC9H7N2>Cr03Cl . .
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X-Ray Powder Pattern of CC4H5N2>Cr03ClInf rared Spectrum of CC4H5N2>Cr03Cl . .
X-Ray Powder Pattern of CC4H5N20>Cr03ClInf rared Spectrum of CC4H5N20)Cr03Cl . A number of oxotetrachloro and oxopentachloro pentavalent chromium salts have been prepared using this method, and a large number of publications on the spectroscopic properties have appeared in the literature during the last 25 years C3, Although PCC is a milder oxidant than sodium or potassium dichromate, and produces carbonyl compounds in good yields, it does not preferentially oxidize specific alcohols Ci.e.primary, secondary, benzylic, and allylic alcohols are not separately distinguished) and the need remains for selective oxidants.Since the report of the now well known PCC, several other chlorochromate and dichromate complexes having different heterocyclic cations have been reported. The pyridinium dichromate complex is easily prepared by the aqueous reaction of pyridine and chromium trioxide C33):
11The bipyridinium chlorochromate complex is formed in an analogous fashion to the pyridinium chlorochromate complex, while the bipyridine-chromium oxide complex is formed analogously to the dipyridine-chromiumCVI) oxide complex C34).Quite recently the 4-Cdimethylamino)pyridinium chlorochromate complex (35), as well as our own naphthyridinium and pyrazinium chlorochromate complexes (36...