2.4.1. Tetraamminecopper(II) permanganate
[Tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate was prepared first in the reaction of an ammoniacal copper sulfate solution cooled to 8 °C with potassium permanganate pre-cooled to the same temperature [
89,
90]. Single crystals could be prepared in this reaction in an ice-cooled bath [
91], but the ammonia excess at room temperature resulted in contamination [
89]. Starting from [tetraamminecopper(II)] sulfate and potassium permanganate solution, a slower deposition rate or crystals were observed [
89]. In order to prepare pure [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate, the best way is the reaction of [tetraamminecopper(II)] sulfate and sodium or potassium permanganate solutions with a 5/2 °C temperature gradient [
76]. The reaction product formed by mixing the reactants at room temperature led to NH
4MnO
4 contaminated product due to the temperature-dependent hydrolysis of the complex cation [
72,
73,
76] because of the followings: the saturated aqueous [Cu(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2 solution has a pH value of 9.60 indicates the partial dissociation of the complex cation into Cu
2+, NH
3 and [Cu(NH
3)
n]
2+,
n=1-3 species. The dissociation rate increases with increasing temperature. The released ammonia in the solution is partly protonated by the water to form NH
4+ and OH
- ions. Increasing the hydroxide ion concentration causes precipitation of the Cu
2+ ions formed in complex dissociation equilibrium, removing the Cu
2+ and OH
- ions from the solution due to the low solubility product of Cu(OH)
2 (
L=4.8∙10
-20). It shifts the complex decomposition and ammonia protonation equilibrium with the accumulation of free ammonium and permanganate ions, which due to the low solubility of NH
4MnO
4 [
65] results in co-deposition of NH
4MnO
4 together with [Cu(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2 (the solubility product of [Cu(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2 is
L = 7.81∙10-3 [
73,
76])
[Cu(NH3)4](MnO4)2 + 2H2O = Cu(OH)2 + 2NH3 + 2NH4MnO4
This equilibrium can be completely shifted to the right with the removal of the ammonia from equilibrium. The ammonia vapor pressure is higher than that of the water, furthermore, depends on the temperature, thus the pressure decreasing (vacuum) or temperature increasing (heating) can complete the hydrolysis process. This reaction route was used to prepare single crystals of highly pure alkali metal-free ammonium permanganate [
73,
76]. The remaining ammonium and permanganate ions were crystallized out as ammonium permanganate [
74]
[Tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate is a purple-black crystalline powder [
89] or violet crystalline material [
91], slightly soluble in water and in its aqueous solutions gradually decomposes and the initially beautiful purple color of the solution disappears, and manganese oxide is deposited [
89]. It is soluble without similar decomposition in diluted sulfuric acid [
89]. It also dissolves in polar organic solvents such as DMF and Ac
2O but is insoluble in non-polar solvents like hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents [
76]. In its DMF solution, [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate dissociates completely into cation and anion (the antisymmetric stretching Mn-O mode of permanganate ion appeared as a sharp intensive singlet band at 900 cm
-1), whereas the Cu-N region of the IR spectrum showed a very wide band system due to the solvation/ligand exchange of the complex cation with the DMF solvent [
76]. The DMF solution of [Cu(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2 has an intense purple color which disappears within half an hour [
76], and MnO
2 formation was observed. In DMSO, it dissolves with the formation of a green compound that decomposes fast on standing [
76].
It is stable in the dry state for several weeks, but on longer standing in a wet or impure state it easily decomposes with MnO
2 formation, especially above 10 °C, and the sunlight increases the decomposition rate [
89,
91]. It detonates under the shock of the hammer; heating or crushing in a mortar [
89,
90], fusing with releasing ammonia, and producing a cloud of very finely divided oxides and voluminous lightweight and contoured ash [
89].
Prismatic twinned single crystals were grown by slow evaporation of a saturated aqueous solution over concentrated H
2SO
4 at ~278 K,
dexp(flotation) = 2.39 g/mL [
91]. Its monoclinic elementary cell (
Table 1) contains two isolated [Cu(NH
3)
4(MnO
4)
2] units with distorted octahedral copper(II) (4+2) coordination with four ammonia nitrogen atoms in the equatorial and two permanganate oxygen atoms in the axial sites [
91].
Table 1.
Crystallographic data of [M(NH3)4](XO4)2 [tetraamminemetal(II)] permanganates, pertechnetates and perrhenates.
Table 1.
Crystallographic data of [M(NH3)4](XO4)2 [tetraamminemetal(II)] permanganates, pertechnetates and perrhenates.
Compound |
T, K |
a,b,c, Å |
a,b,g, ° |
Space group |
Z |
V, Å3
|
Dcalcd, g/mL |
Ref. |
M=Cu, X=Mn |
298 |
5.413 9.093 10.749 |
96.18 |
P21/m |
2 |
526.0 |
2.33 |
[91] |
M=Cu, X=Re |
150 |
6.5167; 6.7790; 7.4627 |
67.336; 80.004 70.687 |
P-1 |
1 |
|
3.661 |
[92] |
M=Zn, X=Mn |
298 |
10.335 |
|
F-43m |
4 |
|
|
[37] |
M=Zn, X=Re |
|
10.53 |
|
F4-3m |
4 |
|
3.60 |
[90] |
|
10.66 |
|
F4-3m |
4 |
|
|
[93] |
M=Cd,X=Mn |
298 |
10.432 |
|
F-43m |
4 |
|
|
[58] |
|
10.44 |
|
|
|
|
2.41 |
[90] |
M=Cd, X=Re |
|
10.53 |
|
F4-3m |
4 |
|
|
[94] |
|
10.54 |
|
|
|
[93] |
|
10.67 |
|
|
|
|
3.71 |
[90] |
M=Ni, X=Re |
|
9.2 5.2 6.7 |
|
|
1 |
|
3.22 |
[85] |
M=Co, X=Re |
|
10.54 |
|
F4-3m |
4 |
|
3.56 |
[95] |
M=Pd, X=Mn |
|
5.1746 7.5861 7.7217 |
69.313 78.872 76.883 |
P1 |
1 |
274.1 |
2.50 |
[96] |
M=Pd, X=Re |
|
5.1847 7.7397 7.9540 |
69.531 79.656 77.649 |
P-1 |
1 |
290.19 |
4.37 |
[96] |
M=Pt, X=Tc |
|
5.179 7.725 7.935 |
69.33 79.74 77.41 |
P-1 |
1 |
|
3.396 |
[97] |
M=Pt, X=Re |
298 |
5.1847 7.7397 7.9540 |
69.531 79.656 77.649 |
P1 |
1 |
290.19 |
4.370 |
[98] |
|
12.70 8.91 5.09 |
104.1 |
C2/m or Cm |
2 |
|
4.55 |
[99] |
Due to the two crystallographically nonequivalent permanganate ions the IR and Raman bands are doubled, although among the 2x3 antisymmetric Raman bands only a quintet can be seen due to the overlapping (
Figure 3).
Figure 3.
Raman spectrum of [Cu(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2. Reproduced from [
76].
Figure 3.
Raman spectrum of [Cu(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2. Reproduced from [
76].
All of the IR and Raman bands belonging to the cation and anion modes were completely assigned. The shift and splitting of the hydrogen-bond sensitive rocking NH
3 mode (ρ
r(NH
3)) in the IR spectrum of [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate indicate the presence of weak N-H…O-Mn hydrogen bonds [
76]. The ESR
g-factors (
gzz=2.273,
gxx=
gyy=2.090) are typical according to the O-ligation with a square-planar Cu environment. The sharpness of the parallel and perpendicular ESR bands of [Cu(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2, and the lack of Cu hyperfine structure show that the exchange interactions between the magnetically equivalent copper centers are stronger than the dipole couplings [
76].
[Tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate has unique thermal properties. Its heat of formation is 355 kcal/mol, and burns easily under oxygen pressure according to the equation [
100]:
[Cu(NH3)4](MnO4)2 = Cu(liq.)+0.66Mn3O4+5.34H2O+0.44NH3+1.78N2
The heat of combustion is 152 kcal/mol, and the calculated combustion temperature is 1500 K. It starts to burn at 8 technical atm pressure with a dark red glow. It is a fast-burning material,
um=16 g/cm
2.s.gauge atm,
tdel=<1 s at 280 °C [
100].
The preliminary TG studies in air showed that [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate explodes at ~363 K giving a mixture of Cu and Mn oxides. It decomposes under N
2 in at least two steps. Based on the weight losses, the decomposition mechanism was summarized as follows[
91].
[Cu(NH3)4](MnO4)2 → Cu(MnO4)2 → CuMn2O4 –
-4NH3, 3013-423 K -2O2, 423-773 K
The intermediate phase Cu(MnO
4)
2 was given as amorphous whereas the CuMn
2O
4 was found to be crystalline [
91]. Further studies, that used combined methods (TG-MS, DSC,) pointed out a much more complicated decomposition mechanism [
76].
DSC studies showed a strongly exothermic decomposition reaction (the ammonia ligand loss is expected to be endothermic) in both steps, and the IR results of the decomposition intermediates did not show the presence of permanganate ion, whereas the IR spectrum of the intermediate formed at 250 °C contained a sharp unexpected peak at ~2200 cm
-1. The shift of the Mn-O antisymmetric stretching modes to the low wavenumber region showed a strong decrease in the oxidation number of manganese [
76]. These results completely coincide with the formation of [Cu(NH
3)
2](MnO
4)
2 and Cu(MnO
4)
2 intermediates given previously.
TG-MS and TG-gas titrimetric studies showed that in the two well-defined decomposition steps of [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate, 2 mol of ammonia, water, and N
2O are formed without oxygen evolution. The two ammonia molecules were formed in the first step, together with H
2O evolution, and in the second step, N
2O and H
2O could be detected as main products, but without any ammonia evolution. The decomposition residue is amorphous, its formula corresponds to the CuMn
2O
4+x stoichiometry. It does not dissolve in nitric acid; thus, it is not the stoichiometric mixture of CuO and Mn-oxides. Heating of the amorphous decomposition residue until 500 °C resulted in cubic CuMn
2O
4 spinel. The IR spectra of the decomposition intermediate showed the presence of ammonium nitrate confirmed by the XRD and IR of the evaporation residue crystallized out from the aqueous leachate. The formation of N
2O and H
2O in the 2
nd step is attributed to the decomposition of NH
4NO
3, and the sharp peak in the IR of the decomposition intermediate belongs to the gas-inclusion of N
2O [
76]. The two-step process was described as follows [
76]:
[Cu(NH3)4](MnO4)2 = CuMn2O4 + 2NH3 + NH4NO3 + H2O
NH4NO3 = N2O + 2H2O
In the first decomposition step, the oxidation of one ammonia ligand into nitrate and H
2O is a strongly exothermic process and its reaction heat overflows the endothermicity of the two residual ammonia ligand loss. The reaction starts at 65 °C, which is lower than the temperature of the ammonia ligand loss of [tetraamminecopper(II)] cation, thus the ammonia-permanganate redox reaction takes place in solid state [
76].
The temperature-controlled decomposition of [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate in CHCl
3 and CCl
4 at 61 and 77
◦C, respectively, resulted in the formation of amorphous copper manganese oxide and ammonium nitrate mixtures. The oxygen surplus in the CuMn
2O
4+x oxides varied between
x=0 and 0.35. The formation of (Cu,Mn)
2O
3 and (Cu,Mn)
T-4(Cu,Mn)
OC-62O
4 oxides, their crystallite size and catalytic activity strongly depend on the heating temperature (CHCl
3 or CCl
4), or the removal of ammonium nitrate (aq. washing or heat treatment (
Scheme 2) [
28]).
Scheme 2.
Temperature-controlled decomposition scheme of [tetraamminecopper(II) permanganate]. Reproduced from [
28].
Scheme 2.
Temperature-controlled decomposition scheme of [tetraamminecopper(II) permanganate]. Reproduced from [
28].
These copper manganese oxides were proved to be catalytically active in CO oxidation, thus [tetraamminecopper(II) permanganate] is a potential candidate in the preparation of Hopcalite-like catalysts [
28].
The oxidative deoximation of aldoximes and ketoximes and oxidative regeneration of phenylhydrazones by [tetraamminecopper](II) permanganate in 1:1 aqueous acetic acid resulted in the appropriate oxo-compounds [
91,
101]. Benzaldehyde and acetophenone oximes are deoximated at room temperature with 82 and 81 % yield, respectively. The oxidative regeneration of acetaldolphenylhydrazone resulted in a three-electron reduction of [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate with the formation of Mn
IV. No influence of acrylonitrile on the reaction, and no acrylonitrile polymerization (lack of free radicals) was observed [
55,
56].
The kinetics of the oxidative regeneration of oximes (278-298 K) and phenylhydrazones (288-318 K) of H-C(=O)-R
1 aldoximes (R
1=H, Me, Et, Pr, i-Pr, ClCH
2, Ph) and R
1-C(=O)-R
2 ketoximes (R
1=Me, R
2=Me, Et, Ph and R
1=R
2=Et) were studied in 1:1 aq. acetic acid. The reactions are first order for the organic components and oximes and [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate as well. The oxidation rate of keto-derivatives is slower than that of aldehyde-derived compounds. The substituent-dependent regeneration reaction rates can be described by the Pavelich-Taft dual substituent-parameter equation. The low positive values found for the polar reaction constants indicate a nucleophilic attack by a permanganate-oxygen on the double-bond carbon atom. The low activation enthalpy values indicate that the bond cleavages and bond formations are almost synchronous. The large negative values of activation entropies support the formation of a rigid cyclic activated complex. The alkyl group’s steric hindrance has an influence on the reaction. The reaction rate-determining step is the formation of an acyclic intermediate [
55,
56].
The [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate oxidizes benzyl alcohol in CHCl
3 solution into benzaldehyde with 67% yield in 3 h reflux, but only 4 % benzonitrile (4%) was formed. Increasing the reflux temperature (CCl
4) increased the nitrile yield to 14% in 3 h. This indicates that the ammonia could not be liberated easily from the coordination sphere to react with the aldehyde formed. The addition of coordinating solvents to substitute ammonia in the coordination sphere of the complex cation (DMF or CH3CN) suppressed the nitrile formation due to the stable solvated ammine complex formation [
65]. It shows that the stability of the NH
3 source is a key factor in the ammoxidation reactions of benzyl alcohol into benzonitrile, because the ammonium permanganate [
102], or [hexakis(urea)iron(III)] permanganate (urea acts as ammonia precursor) [
11] results in much more benzonitrile formation than the [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate [
65].
The oxidation of benzyl alcohol and its ortho (Me, OMe, NO
2, COOMe, F, Cl, Br, I, CN, NHAc, SMe, CF
3), meta (Me, OMe, F, Cl, NO
2, CF
3, COOMe, Br, NHAc, CN, SMe) and para (Me, OMe, Cl, Br, F, NO
2, COOMe, CF
3, CN, SMe, NHAc, NMe
2) monosubstituted benzyl alcohols by [tetraamminecopper(II)] permanganate in aqueous acetic acid resulted in the formation of the corresponding benzaldehydes. The kinetics of these reactions were measured between 288 and 318 K, moreover, the rate constants and activation parameters were calculated. The reactions are first order regarding the oxidant, substrates, and hydrogen ions. The oxidation of PhCD
2OH exhibits a substantial temperature-dependent kinetic isotope effect (
kH/
kD at 298 K was found to be 5.83). The reaction rate increases with an increase with the polarity of the solvent. The oxidation rates of meta- or para, and the ortho-substituted benzyl alcohols correlated in terms of Charton’s triparametric LDR and tetraparametric LDRS equations, respectively. The oxidation of para-substituted benzyl alcohols is more sensitive to the delocalization effect than that of the ortho- and meta-substituted derivatives, which show a great dependence on the field effect. The positive
h values suggest the presence of the electron-deficient reaction centers in the rate-determining step. The ortho substituents show steric acceleration [
77].
2.4.2. Tetraamminezinc(II) and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] permanganates
[Tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] permanganate were prepared first by Klobb as a fine purple powder in the reaction of 0.2 M zinc and cadmium sulfate, ammonium hydroxide, and a saturated potassium permanganate solution at 10 °C. To avoid contamination the Zn-complex that formed must be filtered very quickly [
89,
90]. The Cd-complex cannot be dried over lime or sulfuric acid without decomposition, but 48 h drying over P
2O
5 resulted in black crystals/purple [tetraamminecadmium(II)] permanganate in 48 h [
89].
Dark purple microcrystalline [M(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2 (M=Zn, Cd) complexes were prepared in a pure state in the reaction of the saturated aqueous [tetraamminezinc(II)] or [tetraamminecadmium(II)] sulfate and KMnO
4 solutions with +5/+2 °C temperature gradient [
37,
58,
90]. [Tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] permanganates are very fine violet crystalline solids [
89,
90],
dexp=2.27 g/mL (M=Zn) [
90]. They explode on rubbing or crushing in a mortar [
89,
90], under the shock of the hammer; or on heating, fuses with releasing ammonia and producing a cloud of very finely divided oxides. They give a brown insoluble powder after 1-2 h (Zn) or a few days (M=Cd) storage at room temperature[
89]. In a wet form, the Zn-complex easily decomposes if exposed to light [
89] but is stable in dry conditions at room temperature [
37].
Both complexes are slightly soluble in water (0.91 g/100 ml H
2O at 19 °C for the Zn compound [
37]), but their aqueous solutions lose their beautiful purple color and quickly manganese oxide is deposited [
58,
89]. Their hydrolysis-reaction proceeds in aq. solutions, with the formation of ammonium permanganate and zinc(II) or cadmium(II) hydroxide [
58]. They dissolve in diluted sulfuric acid and no sign of similar decomposition could be occurred [
89].
The powder X-ray data of [tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] permanganates (
d values and their relative intensities), including Müller indices are given [
90]. Single crystal studies showed some additional weak reflections indicating a face-centered cubic supercell with
Z=32 and
a=20.62 Å (Zn) and
a=20.88 Å (Cd) values. These large cells show a slight distortion of the tetrahedral units since the intensities of the weak additional reflections were calculated to be zero, assuming an exactly tetrahedral environment. The space group for the structures with a larger cell could not be determined exactly, probably is T
d2-F4-3m or F4-3c-T
d [
90]. Due to the lack of good-quality single crystals their structures were solved from PXRD data with Rietveld refinement using the atomic coordinates of the isostructural [Zn(NH
3)
4](ClO
4)
2 [
37,
58]. [Tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] permanganates crystallize in a closely packed cubic structure (
Table 1) and built up a three-dimensional M-N-H....O-Mn hydrogen-bonded network with block-like structural motifs of four M(NH
3)
42+ and four MnO
4- ions (M=Zn, Cd). Only one of the two permanganates of each complex takes part in the building up of the 3D network, the second kind of permanganate ion is captured in the cavities enclosed by the tetramer building blocks of the network [
37,
58]. There are significant differences between the strength of the N-H...O-Mn hydrogen bonds of the 3D network forming and the cavity-embedded permanganate ions. The hydrogen bonds between the ammonia hydrogens and the cavity-embedded permanganate ions hinder the free rotation of the embedded permanganate ion, although its rotational freedom is even higher than that of the network-fixed permanganate ion [
37,
58].
The IR and Raman bands of [tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] permanganates were completely assigned, and the cation and anion modes are listed. The splitting of antisymmetric Mn-O stretching bands (F2) could not be explained well by simple site-symmetry considerations based on T
d2 space-group, therefore dynamic effects through the interaction of neighboring ions in a
Z=4 unit cell (factor group splitting neglected in site symmetry considerations) are noticeable [
90].
Due to the presence of two crystallographically different tetrahedral permanganate ions in the lattice, the IR and the Raman bands belonging to the Mn-O modes are doubled. The MN
4 skeleton (M=Zn, Cd) of the complex cation also has tetrahedral geometry. The factor group analysis resulted that the degeneration of the antisymmetric modes (F2) in this crystallographic environment due to the symmetry relations should not be ceased, and the symmetric IR modes should not appear. The appearance of the IR forbidden symmetric (ν
s and δ
E) modes and the splitting of the triply degenerated (F2) antisymmetric modes (ν
as and δ
as) was attributed to the orientation effects of cavity embedded permanganate ion, which strengthened with decreasing the temperature [
37,
58]. The increase of the ν
as(Mn-O)/ν
s(Mn-O) integrated intensity ratio values by decreasing the temperature from 293 to 173 K indicates that the permanganate-ion orientation is frozen, whereas the dynamic lattice distortion due to slowing down the anisotropic thermal motions would cause change with an opposite sign under cooling. The IR bands belonging to cavity-embedded permanganate were identified [
37,
58].
The thermal decomposition of [tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] permanganates under an inert atmosphere proceeds in 2+1 steps with the formation of an amorphous decomposition product with an MMn2O4+x (x=0-0.35) formula (M=Zn, Cd), which transforms at 500 °C. The peak temperatures of the first decomposition step strongly depend on the heating rate and vary between 100 and 130 °C. Two molecules of ammonia are released only in the first decomposition steps at 100 °C, the other two transform into ammonium nitrate and water. No O2 evolution occurs. In the second decomposition step, the ammonium nitrate decomposition could be observed, which is catalyzed by the presence of MMn2O4 (M=Zn and Cd) spinels at 230 and 224 °C, respectively.
The main decomposition processes are the following:
[M(NH3)4](MnO4)2 = MMn2O4 + NH4NO3 + 2NH3 + H2O (M=Zn, Cd)
NH4NO3 = N2O+ 2H2O
All decomposition steps are exothermic, the overall reaction heats are ∆H = -169 and -318 kJ/mol, which shows that the reaction heats of the ammonia-permanganate reactions in these complexes are higher than the energy demands of the partial de-ammoniation reactions [
37,
58].
In toluene as heat-convection media, the reaction temperature is controlled at 110 °C by the evaporation of toluene (reflux). Leaching of the amorphous decomposition residue with water (removal of NH
4NO
3) resulted in amorphous MMn
2O
4+x (
x=0-0.35) (M=Zn, Cd) compounds, and the leaching solutions evaporation gave crystalline ammonium nitrate [
37,
58].
2.4.3. [Tetraamminecopper(II)], [tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] perrhenates
[Tetraamminecopper(II)] perrhenate was prepared first by Briscoe et al. [
103] by adding aq. concentrated ammonium hydroxide or gaseous ammonia to a concentrated hot copper(II) perrhenate solution until the formed precipitate completely re-dissolved and then the deep blue crystals were crystallized out after cooling the solution [
103]. The copper(II) perrhenate could be prepared in situ from CuCO
3 and HReO
4, and the concentrated solution that formed was mixed directly with concentrated ammonia [
84]. [Tetraamminecopper(II)] perrhenate was also be prepared in the metathesis reaction of ammoniacal copper sulfate with ammonium perrhenate or perrhenic acid [
104] between 20 and 60 °C. The ammonia added to copper sulfate solutions caused appearing a deep blue color, which changes into dark violet on adding perrhenic acid. Neither the ammonia nor the perrhenic acid excess caused the formation of any other insoluble phase. The optimal concentration of each reactant to prepare the maximal yield of [Cu(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 has been determined[
104]. It was also prepared from hot aq. solution of copper(II) acetate mixed with 1:1 aq. ammonia to get pH 11-12, with 2 equivalent of concentrated aq. solution of sodium perrhenate. On cooling, a dark-lilac crystalline precipitate formed with a yield of ~77% [
92].
[Tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] perrhenates were synthesized from in situ-prepared concentrated metal perrhenate (M=Zn, Cd, from zinc or cadmium carbonate and 0.004 M perrhenic acid) solution and concentrated aqueous ammonia solution [
61,
69,
94]. Zagorodnyaya et al prepared [tetraamminezinc(II)] perrhenate with the addition of zinc sulfate then 0.025-0.1 M ammonium perrhenate solutions to 20 % excess of aq. ammonia at room temperature [
105]. [Tetraamminecadmium(II)] perrhenate and its deuterium and
116/110Cd isotope-containing samples were prepared in a similar way from Cd(ReO
4)
2 and
110/116Cd(ReO
4)
2 (prepared by the reaction of CdCl
2,
110/116CdCl
2 and AgReO
4, respectively) with aq. ammonia or deuterated ammonia in heavy water [
106]. It also formed during the processing of rhenium-containing lead dust, when rhenium generally follows the cadmium during the extraction of Zn and Cd chloride and sulfate-containing solutions with trialkyl amines with subsequent re-extraction with aq. ammonia [
107]. The bluish violet (Cu) and colorless (Zn, Cd) microcrystalline substances were purified by recrystallization from warm concentrated ammonia [
69,
84].
[Tetraamminecopper(II)] perrhenate is a blue [
90] or bluish violet[
94,
103], the Zn and Cd-complexes are white powder or colorless crystals [
69,
86,
90]. They are non-hygroscopic, insoluble in water and the common organic solvent [
69,
86,
105]. The Cu-complex is stable in air until 100 °C [
103], starts to decompose at 140 °C, and on further heating in air turns into pale green materials and then melts with darkening and completely decomposes [
84,
103]. It forms regular prismatic anisotropic violet-blue single crystals with medium to high birefringence. Distinct pleochroism is from pale blue to dark purple, the optical phase is biaxial and negative. Refractive indices:
np=1.635-1.64;
ng=1.655-1.660 [
104].
Both the Zn and Cd-complexes consist of regular cubes, but the Zn-complex forms octagons or rectangles as well [
86,
105]. The single crystalline Zn-complex is isotropic (refractive index is
n=1.627) [
105], its density and molar volume are
d=3.608 g/mL and 175.75, respectively [
69,
90].
There is controversial information about the solubility of [tetraamminezinc(II)] and cadmium perrhenates, which are given as insoluble material in water [
86], but Zagorodnyaya gave the solubility of Zn-complex as 6.23 g/100 g water [
105]. The solubilities of the Zn and Cd-complexes in ammonia (
d=0.930) at 20 °C is 1.852 g/L [
69] (increases from 0.128 to 0.359 g/100g solution increasing the ammonia concentration from 1.2 to 12.0 M [
105]) and at 11 °C is 0.37 g/L, respectively [
69]. The pycnometric density and molar volume of the Cd-complex are d=3.714 (25 °C) g/mL [
69] or 3.72 g/mL[
90] and 183.5 [
69].
Powder X-ray studies showed that [tetraamminezinc(II)] perrhenate is isomorphous with the analog Cd and Co-complexes [
95]. The powder-X-ray diffractogram of the Cu, Cd, and Zn-complexes, including the
d-values and intensity data were discussed [
84,
90,
95,
104,
105]. The Miller indices were given only for the Zn and Cd complexes [
90,
95]. Their single crystal studies showed some weak additional reflections showing a face-centered cubic supercell with
a=21.06 Å, Z=32, T
d2-F4-3m (Zn, Cd). This large cell indicated a slight distortion of the tetrahedral MN
4 (M=Zn, Cd) and ReO
4 units since the intensities of the weak additional reflections were calculated to be zero, assuming exactly tetrahedral environments [
90]. All three complexes have face-centered cubic lattices (
Table 1). The lattice constant of the Cd-complex agrees satisfactorily with the calculated one from the experimental density (
d254 = 3.714,
a0 = 10.66 Å,) when four molecules are taken to the unit [
94]. Both the Zn and Cd-complexes are isostructural with [M(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2 (M=Zn, Cd) complexes as well [
106]. The cadmium complex has a first order order-disorder type phase transition at 368 K with 2.0 kJ/mol enthalpy change and 8 K hysteresis during the DSC measurements [
61].
The IR bands of the [tetraamminecopper(II)] perrhenate and their assignments were discussed in detail The forbidden symmetric stretching Re-O mode of perrhenate ion appears in the IR spectrum together with a well-separated doublet (10 cm
-1) of the antisymmetric Re-O stretching mode suggesting unidentate or bridging perrhenate anion bonding[
84,
104]. The magnetic moment value is μ
eff=1.84 B.M and the UV spectrum shows bands characteristic of a tetragonal Cu environment (16000 and 14000 cm
-1) [
84].
The IR bands of [tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] permanganates were assigned completely [
90,
107], including measurements on
14N/
15N and
110/116Cd isotope substituted derivatives to assign the ZnN
4 and CdN
4 skeletons, and on H/D isotope substituted derivatives to the unambiguous assignation of the ammonia ligand modes [
106,
108]. The wavenumber shifts due to
14N/
15N isotope substitution were varied between 2.5-9.0 cm
-1, the highest shifts were found for antisymmetric Zn-N stretching (9 cm
-1) and for the symmetric HNH deformation modes (7 cm
-1) [
106]. The
110/116Cd isotope substitution does not cause isotope shift in the Cd-N symmetric stretching and bending modes in the Raman spectra, whereas the H/D substitution caused 27 and 16.5 cm
-1 shift in the IR, and 6 cm
-1 shift in the Raman spectra. The antisymmetric stretching and bending modes showed 2.0 and 0.5 cm
-1 (
110/116Cd) and 23 or 12.5 cm
-1 shifts (H/D) isotope shifts in the IR spectra, respectively [
108].
The symmetric Re-O stretching mode of perrhenate-ion is absent and the antisymmetric Re-O stretching mode is not split in the IR spectra of the Zn and Cd-complexes, which indicates the non-coordinating nature of perrhenate ion in this complex [
86], however, Müller et al. [
90] found splitting of antisymmetric Re-O stretching bands (F2) in both IR spectra, which could not be explained by simple site-symmetry considerations based on T
d2 space-group, therefore dynamic effects through the interaction of neighboring ions in a
Z=4-unit cell (factor group splitting neglected in site symmetry considerations) are noticeable [
90]. Experimental IR and Raman spectra were measured and compared with the results of quantum-chemical calculations [
61]. The complete assignments of the IR and Raman bands have been given [
61]. The low-temperature IR and Raman scattering measurements revealed that the coordinated ammonia ligands perform fast reorientational motions below 368 K. This motion is slowed down at around 40 K. The estimated activation energy for this motion were found to be ~4 kJ mol
−1 from both the IR and Raman measurements. It was confirmed by quasi-elastic neutron scattering measurements which confirmed that the ammonia ligands reorientate even in low temperatures as well. These motions are probably jumps around a 3-fold symmetry axis [
61].
The crystal structure of [tetraamminecopper(II)] perrhenate was determined at 150 K [
92], it is isostructural with [M
A(NH
3)
4](M
BO
4)
2 (M
A = Pt, Pd; M
B = Re, Mn) (
Table 1). The Cu atom (in the symmetry center) is coordinated with four N atoms located at the vertices of a square. The perrhenate anion is slightly distorted. There are N–H…O-Re hydrogen bonds, the shortest one being 2.179 Å. Translation sublattice isolation technique resulted in sub-cell parameters
ac = 6.52 Å,
bc= 5.14 Å,
cc = 3.90 Å, showing that it can be conventionally considered hexagonal, and it was identified hexagonal layers formed by metal atoms, which are repeated with
cc = 3.90 Å [
92].
[Tetraamminecopper(II)], [tetraamminezinc(II)], and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] per perrhenates hydrolyze in their aqueous solutions with the formation of a blue precipitate (Cu), and the appropriate M(OH)
2 hydroxides (M=Cd, Zn), respectively. The blue crystalline phase that formed from the Cu-complex, is not the expected Cu(OH)
2 as that was found in the case of [Cu(NH
3)
4] (MnO
4)
2 [
76]. This phase is orthorhombic, its lattice parameters are
a=11.276 Å,
b=15.460 Å,
c=16.865 Å. The intensities of IR bands are weak compared to the OH bands found at 704 cm
-1 (it is located at 696 cm
-1 in Cu(OH)
2). The heating of the solution containing this phase causes appearing CuO at 50 °C. The compound contains copper (59.5 %) and a small amount of rhenium (1.75% and ammonia (0.7%). The bands at 1500, 1464, and 1372 cm
-1 might belong to N-O or N-H bond-containing species as well [
104].
The hydrolysis process of the complexes is completed at 100 °C as in the case of permanganate and perchlorate complexes (M=Cu, Zn, Cd) with the formation of M(OH)
2 (M=Cu, Zn, Cd) precipitates and simple ammonia liberation [
72,
73,
76,
105,
107,
109]. Increasing the temperature, [tetraamminecopper(II)] perrhenate also follows this kind of hydrolysis process, because above 50 °C, CuO (as a dehydration product of Cu(OH)
2) appears as the main reaction product.
M[NH3)4(ReO4)2+ 4H2O = M(OH)2+ 2NH4OH + 2NH4ReO4
M(OH)2 = MO +H2O, M=Cu, Zn, Cd
The presence of ammonia prevents the hydrolysis equilibrium, and [tetraamminecopper(II)] perrhenate dissolves in 1.2-12 M ammonia solutions without decomposition. Its solubility is between 0.898-3.11 g/100 g solution. The hydrolysis of [tetraamminezinc(II)] and [tetraamminecadmium(II)] perrhenates can be prevented even in 1.2 M ammonia solutions and the original salts can be crystallized out [
105,
109]. Removing ammonia from the hydrolysis equilibrium [
73] with mineral acids (HCl, H
2SO
4, or HNO
3) or acetic acid shifts the hydrolysis equilibrium into the direction of ammonium perrhenate formation. The acid concentrations above 0.1 M cause complete decomposition [
104,
105,
109]:
[M(NH3)4](ReO4)2 + 2HX = MX2 + 2NH4ReO4 + 2NH4X
X=Cl, OAc, NO3 or 1/2SO4 M=Cu, Zn: Cd
The effect of temperature and acid concentrations were optimized including adding an excess of ammonium sulfate as a salting-out agent both for the aqueous (100 °C) hydrolysis and sulfuric acid neutralization processes [
104,
105,
109].
The thermal decomposition of the [M(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 (M=Cu, Zn, Cd) complexes in an inert atmosphere show a decomposition step at 175-225, 1 50-195 and 100-150 °C with the formation of [M(NH
3)
2](ReO
4)
2 compounds with 0.37, 1.27 and 0.42 reaction order 67.2 kJ/mol, 47.3 kJ/mol and 28.9 kJ/mol activation energy, respectively [
84,
86]. Hetmanczyk et al. [
61] determined the kinetic parameters for the first decomposition step of the cadmium complex resulting in the diamminecadmium(II) perrhenate. The decomposition step follows a single mechanism, the activation energy values were found to be 97.7 and 101.7 kJ/mol calculated by Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose and Kissinger methods, respectively. [
61].
The thermal decomposition of the complexes in air atmosphere, however, looks more complicated. The decomposition between 130-245, 129-360, and 250-360 °C with the formation of ammonium perrhenate and hydrated copper, zinc, and cadmium perrhenates, respectively. The next decomposition steps belong to the decomposition of ammonium perrhenate and metal perrhenates, with elimination and redox reactions of rhenium heptoxide with ReO
2 and ReO
3 formation, and with their re-oxidation into Re
2O
7 [
110,
111,
112]. The final decomposition residues are CuO, ZnO and CdO [
104,
105,
107,
110,
113].
2.4.4. [Tetraamminenickel(II)] and [tetraamminecobalt(II)] perrhenates, [M(NH3)4](ReO4)2 (M=Ni, Co)
[Tetraamminenickel(II)] perrhenate was isolated as a decomposition intermediate of [hexaamminenickel(II)] perrhenate on standing in air [
62,
114], whereas the cobalt complex was precipitated from a hot aq. cobalt(II) perrhenate solution by ammonia gas passing into that as a bright violet cube [
69,
103]. Excess of ammonia resulted in the formation of a brown precipitate [
103]. Under an inert atmosphere, the concentrated solution of cobalt perrhenate containing a small amount of hydroxylamine hydrochloride and ammonia gas resulted in a bright red precipitate formed, which turned into a magnificent, crimson-colored regular tetrahedron containing crystalline mass upon shaking (
d=3.428 g/mL; mol-volume is 183 cm
3/mol) without formation of the brown oxidation by-product [
69].
The [tetraamminenickel(II)] perrhenate is stable at 100 C°, but on strong heating in air decomposes with nickel oxide formation [
103]. It is non-hygroscopic and insoluble in water or organic solvents. The violet crystals of [Co(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 are stable in air and can be washed with ammonia-containing water without decomposition. However, its treatment with ammonia-free water resulted in an insoluble bright green material (probably a basic perrhenate) [
103].
The powder XRD of [Ni(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 shows an orthorhombic lattice (
Table 1), the experimental density was found to be 2.96 g/mL [
85]. [Co(NH
3)
4(ReO
4)
2] is cubic (
Table 1),
dexp=3.43 g/mL [
95]. It is isostructural with the analog [M(NH
3)
4](XO
4)
2 and [M(NH
3)
4](OSO
3N)
2 (M=Cd, Zn, X=Re, Mn) compounds. Single-crystal diffraction measurements showed additional weak reflexes, which were not measurable in the powder records. It shows the presence of a possible cubic flat-centered superstructure with
a =21.08 Å,
Z=32, and T
d2-F4-3c [
95].
The triplet and doublet nature of the antisymmetric Re-O band of perrhenate ion in [Ni(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 and [Co(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2, respectively, were taken as evidence of the perrhenate ion coordination [
85]. Since the ν
3(Co-N) mode did not split in the IR spectrum of the Co-complex (the ν
3(Re-O) is a doublet), the distortion of the ReO
4 tetrahedron was declared to be higher than that of the CoN
4 tetrahedron in [Co(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 [
95]. Complete assignment of vibrational bands including the far-IR region have been given in [
62]. Five δ(N-H) bands were observed in the IR spectrum of [Ni(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 between 1345–1100 cm
-1 (instead of the singlet one given in [
85]) and splitting of ρ(NH
3) at ~680 cm
-1 was also observed together with two shoulders at 645 and 580 cm
-1. The far-IR bands show that the ReO
4 units are not isolated tetrahedrons but rather are joined to the complex cations to form a polymeric chain. The presence of the Ni–O–Re bond is characterized by the band observed at 219 cm
-1 [
62].
The magnetic moment value (μ
eff=3.08 BM for Ni complex) and that’s temperature independence show a hexacoordinated nickel(II) environment. The UV-Vis spectra of [Ni(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 shows tetragonal distortion (10600 cm
-1 (
3B
1g->
3B
2g or
3B
1g->
3E
g),16100 cm
-1 (
3B
1g->
3A
2g), 21300 cm
-1 (no assignation), 27000 and 25600 cm
-1 (
3B
1g->
3E
g or
3B
1g->
3A
2g), although the band assignations due to overlapping is hard in the case of similar distorted low-symmetry structures [
85].
The Co
II ion ground state is
4F and the next quartet-state (4P) is located at 11 kK higher energy. The ground term splits in the tetrahedral field (
4A
2 (ground state),
4T
2 and
4T
1), and according to this, the possible transitions are
4A
2-
4T
2,
4A
2-
4T
1(F) and
4A
2-
4T
1(P). The first transition cannot be seen but the other two were clearly observed at 10.0 and 18.5 kK [
95]. Detailed evaluation of the electronic spectrum shows a tetrahedral Co(II) environment and weak Co-N dative bond in this compound confirmed by the temperature-dependent magnetic measurements (m
eff=4.50-4.54 between 88 and 306 K) [
85].
[Tetraamminenickel(II)] perrhenate has a phase transition at 188 K with 0.307 kJ/mol enthalpy change. The low hysteresis and entropy values found by the DSC measurement suggests a one mechanism second-order phase transition. The stepwise decomposition of [tetraamminenickel(II)] perrhenate was followed by thermal analysis methods [
85]. Non-isotherm heating between 160-195 °C [
95]/141-210 °C [
62]) resulted in losing two ammonia molecules and the formation of [Ni(NH
3)
2](ReO
4)
2 [
62,
85]. The activation energy of the decomposition step was found to be 100.62 and 98.52 kJ/mol with Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose and Kissinger methods, respectively [
62].
[Tetraamminecobalt(II)] perrhenate decomposes on strong heating in air resulting in cobalt oxide as the final product [
95,
103]. The thermal decomposition shows three separated endotherm steps, with 2 ammonia and Re
2O
7 loss in the first two steps each and in the last step, at 130-190, 190-250 and 600-800 °C range, respectively [
95].
2.4.6. [Tetraamminemetal(II)] permanganates, pertechnetates, and perrhenates of platinum group metals , [M(NH3)4](XO4)2 (M=Pt, Pd, X= Mn, Tc, Re) and [Ru(NO)(OH)(NH3)4](ReO4)2
[Tetraamminepalladium(II)] permanganate and perrhenate, or [tetraammineplatinum(II)] pertechnetate were prepared first in the reaction of ice-cooled concentrated aqueous solutions of [M(NH
3)
4]Cl
2 (M=Pd, Pt) complexes and a stoichiometric amount of NaMnO
4 (Pd) or NaReO
4 (Pd, Pt) in aq. soln. were mixed, when after slow evaporation in air, needle-shaped single crystals were obtained in 75-80 % yield [
96,
99]. [Tetraammineplatinum(II)] perrhenate was also synthesized with the use of solid silver perrhenate with 40 min boiling in 80 % yield [
99]. The analogous [tetraammineplatinum(II)] pertechnetate(VII) was synthesized as colorless platelet single crystals by adding 2 equivalents of NH
4TcO
4 in its aqueous solution at room temperature for 2-4 days [
97].
The [tetraamminepalladium(II)] permanganate and perrhenate are colorless triclinic crystals (
Table 1), but they are not isomorphic, because the crystal symmetry of permanganate complex is lower (P1) than that of the analogous perrhenate complex (P-1). [
96]. The [Pd(NH)
4](ReO
4)
2 is isomorphic with the colorless triclinic [Pt(NH
3)
4](XO
4)
2 (X=Tc, Re) complexes (
Table 1). A monoclinic polymorph of [tetraammineplatinum(II)] perrhenate was also described (
Table 1) as colorless, non-hygroscopic plates, which are isometric in the plan, but there are also prismatic elongated varieties. The double-sided crystals exhibit oblique extinction towards the prismatic faces and the pinacoids. The optical sign is minus, there is no pleochroism. There is no refractive index dispersion,
Ng=1.715,
Nm=1.714,
Np=1.676 [
99]. This polymorph is slightly soluble in water [
99]. The triclinic compounds (Pd and Re, or Pt and Tc or Re) consist of two tetrahedral XO
4- anions and a square [M(NH
3)
4]
2+ cations are linked by Re-O···H–N hydrogen bonds. The polyhedral complex cations form hexagonal layers in the
y-z plane. Every Pd or Pt atom is surrounded by twelve Re atoms giving hexagonal prisms [
97,
99]. The IR spectrum of [Pt(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 did not show a specific influence on the energetical states of complex constituents, although the IR forbidden symmetric stretching (υ
1) mode of perrhenate ion can be shown at 971 cm
-1 [
99].
The thermal decomposition of [Pd(NH
3)
4](MnO
4)
2 was studied both in H
2 and He atmospheres. A thermal explosion occurred at ~200 °C; the products were X-ray amorphous and annealing at 200–400 °C in an inert or reducing atmosphere did not improve their crystallinity [
96]. The thermolysis of [Pd(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 in helium atmosphere started at 210 °C according to the following equation:
[Pd(NH3)4](ReO4)2 = Pd + 2NH4ReO4 + 4/3NH3↑ + 1/3N2↑
The next decomposition step corresponds to the NH
4ReO
4 decomposition resulting in a mixture of metallic Pd and X-ray amorphous Re oxides [
96]. The thermal decomposition in an H
2 atmosphere at temperatures above 300 °C resulted in the formation of single-phase powder with a hexagonal lattice. This product is a solid solution based on a rhenium structure with the composition Pd
0.33Re
0.67 [
96].
[Tetraammineplatinum(II)] perrhenate decomposing starts at 370 °C in air, which ends at 444 °C. The decomposition residue is metallic Pt, and the rhenium is released as Re
2O
7 [
99].
2 [Pt(NH3)4](ReO4)2 +5O2 =2Pt + 2Re2O7 +4N2 +12H2O
In a hydrogen atmosphere, the decomposition starts even at 200 °C with the formation of NH
4ReO
4 and finely dispersed Pt in 45 min. Further annealing of the decomposition residue in H
2 at 250 °C for 3 h gave ReO3 and Re in addition to NH
4ReO
4 and Pt, whereas after 5 h annealing, only Pt and Re metal phases could be found [
98]. If [Pt(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 was heated under hydrogen at 200 °C for 45 min then subsequently at 600 °C for 3 h, Pt
0.35Re
0.65 Re monophase solid solution was formed. A two-phase ReO
3 -containing Pt-Re alloy was formed at 700 °C in 3 h due to the oxidation of Re by air which contacted the sample during taking out from the furnace. On heating of [Pt(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 at 900 °C in a hydrogen atmosphere for 7 h, the product was a Pt
0.33Re
0.67 solid solution (alloy) [
98].
[Ru(NO)(OH)(NH
3)
4](ReO
4)
2 was prepared from [Ru(NO)(OH)(NH
3)
4]Cl
2 and NH
4ReO
4. It is orthorhombic, space group Pbca, Z = 8. The NO ligand is trans to the hydroxide-ion ligand, and the ReO
4- anion is H-bonded to the complex cation [
115].