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Are M–N bonds indeed inherently weaker when N is a tertiary rather than a primary or secondary nitrogen atom?

✍ Scribed by Dan Meyerstein

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 88 KB
Volume: 185-186
Category: Article
ISSN: 0010-8545
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-8545(98)00258-6

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✦ Synopsis

N-alkylation of amine ligands decreases the stability constants of their metal ion complexes, stabilizes low valent complexes, increases the acidity of the central cation and turns it into a harder acid. The major source of these effects is the decrease in the outer sphere solvation energy induced by the N-alkylation.