Structural consequences of electron-transfer reactions. 5. Electrochemically induced isomerizations of (cyclooctadiene)-and (cyclooctatetraene) cobalt compounds

J Moraczewski, WE Geiger Jr

Index: Moraczewski, Jerome; Geiger, William E. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981 , vol. 103, # 16 p. 4779 - 4787

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Abstract: Electrochemical investigations of the reduction of (cycloocta-ene) cyclopentadienylcobalt compounds in nonaqueous solvents are reported.(C0T) CoCp (COT= cyclooctatetraene, Cp= q5-C5H5) exists as interconverting 1, 5-bonded or 1, 3- bonded isomers in solutions of the neutral complex. Both isomers are reducible by one electron, but the radical ion of (1, 5-COT) CoCp undergoes rapid and irreversible ...