Translated abstract:
The present thesis gives an account on optically active metal complexes of square pyramidal as well as of octahedral structure.
1. Square pyramidal complexes
If cyclopentadienyl-tricarbonyl-chlorides of molybdenum and tungsten are reacted in boiling benzene with Schiff bases consistent of pyridine-carbaldehyde(2) and methylamine, isopropylamine, cyclohexylamine and aniline, respectively, red to blue-violet coloured ionic complexes are formed in high yields, as the chloride ion of the primarily resulting compounds is substituted by the PF6 ion.
For the characterization of the new complexes, analytic and spectroscopic methods have been used. In the infrared-spectra both CO stretching vibrations frequencies, the νC=N vibration and the regular vibration frequencies of the metal-C5H5-system, can be allocated; In the electronic-spectra, a wide band dominates, which is responsible for the colour-determining charge-transfer transition from metal to ligand. In addition to the signals of the protons of the amine component R1, of the azomethine protons Hα and of the hydrogen atoms of the metal bound cyclopentadienyl group, also the chemical swifts of the pyridine-protons can be allocated in the 1H-NMR spectra. Measurements of the conductibility confirm the electrolyte character of the complexes.
The configuration of the square pyramidal complexes is stable both in solid state and in solution at room temperature. If the temperature is increased to ca. 50°C a decrease of the rotation values can be observed in dimethylformamide and acetonitrile solution. The time dependence of the decrease of the rotation values has been measured polarimetrically up to a temperature of 95°C. The kinetic data indicate that the convertion of the diastereomers follows a first order time dependence and results from a regular pentatopal structure rearrangement.
2. Octahedral complexes
The photochemical reaction of hexacarbonyls of chromium, molybdenum and tungsten with Schiff bases of pyridine-carbaldehyde(2) and methylamine, isopropylamine, cyclohexylamine and aniline, respectively, leads to monomeric tetracarbonyl- (pyridine-carbaldehyde(2)- imine) complexes, being their composition confirmed analytically by IR- and mass- spectroscopy. The IR- spectra show that all four possible CO stretching vibrations can be observed as well as the νC=N vibration, which is, relative to its position within the free ligand, averagely shifted 35/cm to lower wavelengths. While decomposing in the mass spectrum, the four CO ligands are lost first in a stepwise fashion followed by the fragmentation of the complex-bound Schiff base. The position of the main maximum in the electron spectrum, deriving from the charge-transfer transition, shows a strongly negative solvatochromie.