[kamiyu]

Hi all

I am a novice of organometallic chemistry and I am a PhD student.

I am doing a complexation reaction starting from IrCl3. Always the solvents used are something that contains OH group such as water, ethylene glycol.

Does anyone know whether it works if I use etheral solvent such as diglyme, which is water like and does not contain OH group.

Thanks

[sjb]

Hi all

I am a novice of organometallic chemistry and I am a PhD student.

I am doing a complexation reaction starting from IrCl3. Always the solvents used are something that contains OH group such as water, ethylene glycol.

Does anyone know whether it works if I use etheral solvent such as diglyme, which is water like and does not contain OH group.

Thanks

Hard to be sure, without details of the reaction - any reason you think it may not go? Why not try on a small scale and see?

[kamiyu]

Thanks for your reply.

Actually, I am just curious whether we can use etheral solvent for complexation starting with IrCl3.

The IrCl3 is about to complex a organic ligand derived from 2-phenylpyridine

[kriggy]

You can use any solvent you like however, the solvent can coordinate to the metal and form strong bond so the ligand cant substitute it to form a complex. Water and methanol are most likely used because of their low price. I was told but that another solvent comonly used is DMF which dissolves like everything you want in coordination chemistry but I never worked with it.