Solvation Structures and Kinetics of Solvent Exchange Reactions of the Manganese(II) Ion
in Six Nitriles As Studied by X-ray Diffraction, EXAFS, and NMR Techniques
The solution structure of the manganese(II) ion in
acetonitrile (methyl cyanide, AN) has been determined by
an
X-ray diffraction technique: there are 6.0 ± 0.2 Mn−N bonds and
the Mn−N bond length is 221 ± 1 pm. The
solvation structures of the manganese(II) ion in propiononitrile
(ethyl cyanide, PN), butyronitrile (propyl cyanide,
BuN), isobutyronitrile (isopropyl cyanide,
iBuN), valeronitrile (butyl cyanide, VN),
and benzonitrile (phenyl cyanide,
BzN) have been determined by extended X-ray absorption fine structure
spectroscopy. The manganese(II) ion in
all of these nitriles is six-coordinate octahedral with an Mn−N bond
length of 221 ± 1 pm. The activation
parameters for solvent exchange on the manganese(II) ion in the
six nitriles have been determined by the nuclear
magnetic resonance line broadening technique at various temperatures
and pressures. The values of the rate
constant
(
,
s-1), activation enthalpy
(ΔH⧧, kJ mol-1),
activation entropy (ΔS⧧, J
mol-1 K-1), and
activation
volume (ΔV⧧, cm3
mol-1) for the nitrile exchange are 1.3 ×
107, 28.6 ± 0.5, −13 ± 2, and −5.8 ± 0.2 in
AN;
1.3 × 107, 29.6 ± 0.7, −10 ± 3, and −2.1 ± 0.4
in PN; 9.9 × 106, 31.3 ± 0.8, −6 ± 3, and −5.0
± 0.8 in BuN;
1.1 × 107, 40.0 ± 0.4, 24 ± 1, and −2.5 ± 0.7 in
iBuN; 9.3 × 106, 35.6 ±
0.7, 8 ± 3, and +0.6 ± 0.6 in VN;
1.2 × 107, 36.9 ± 0.8, 14 ± 3, and none in BzN,
respectively. The values of ΔH⧧ and
ΔS⧧ gradually increase
with increasing bulkiness of the nitrile molecule, and the reaction
mechanism is concluded to be less associative
with increasing the bulkiness, because the Mn−N bond energy in the
nitrile-solvated manganese(II) ion is similar
in all nitriles. The change in the ΔV⧧
value is discussed in terms of the change in the size of the inner
sphere.