3d-4f heterometallic complexes by the reduction of transition metal carbonyls with bulky Ln amidinates.

The redox chemistry between divalent lanthanide complexes bearing bulky amidinate ligands has been studied with 3d transition metal carbonyl complexes (iron and cobalt). The reaction of [(DippForm)Sm(thf)] (DippForm = N,N'-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)formamidinate) with [Co(CO)] resulted in the formation of a tetranuclear Sm-Co complex, [{(DippForm)Sm(thf)}{(μ-CO)Co(CO)}]. The product of the reaction of [(DippForm)Yb(thf)] and [Co(CO)] gives the dinuclear Yb-Co complex [{(DippForm)Yb(thf)}{(μ-CO)Co(CO)}] in toluene.

Interaction between transition metals and phenylalanine: a combined experimental and computational study.

Some transition metal complexes of phenylalanine of general formula [M(C9H10NO2)2]; where M=Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) are prepared in aqueous medium and characterized by spectroscopic, thermo-gravimetric (TG) and magnetic susceptibility analysis. Density functional theory (DFT) has been employed calculating the equilibrium geometries and vibrational frequencies of those complexes at B3LYP level of theory using 6-31G(d) and SDD basis sets. In addition, frontier molecular orbital and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations are performed with CAM-B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) and B3LYP/SDD level of theories.