Gas-phase fragmentation of coordination compounds: loss of CO2 from inorganic carbonato complexes to give metal oxide ions
✍ Scribed by Dalgaard, Pia; McKenzie, Christine J.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 104 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-5174
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✦ Synopsis
Using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, novel transition metal oxide coordination complex ions are proposed as the products of the collision-induced dissociation (CID) of some carbonato complex ions through the loss of a mass equivalent to CO 2 . CID spectra of [(tpa)CoCO 3 ] Y (tpa = tris(2-pyridylmethyl)methylamine), [(bispicMe 2 en)Fe(m-O)(m-CO 3 )Fe(bispicMe 2 en)] 2Y (bispicMe 2 en = N ,N -dimethyl-N,N -bis(2-pyridylmethy)ethane-1,2-diamine) and [(bpbp)Cu 2 CO 3 ] Y (bpbp -= bis[(bis-(2-pyridylmethyl)amino)methyl]-4-tertbutylphenolato(1-)), show peaks assigned to the mono-and dinuclear oxide cations, [(tpa)CoO] Y , [(bispicMe 2 en) 2 Fe 2 (O) 2 ] 2Y and [(bpbp)Cu 2 O] Y , as the dominant species. These results can be likened to the reverse of typical synthetic reactions in which metal hydroxide compounds react with CO 2 to give metal carbonato compounds. Because of the lack of available protons in the gas phase, novel oxide species rather than the more common hydroxide ions are generated. These oxide ions are relevant to the highly oxidizing species proposed in oxygenation reactions catalysed by metal oxides and metalloenzymes.