Reduction of Na⁺ within a {Mg₂ Na₂ } Assembly.

ABSTRACT: Ionic compounds containing sodium cations are notable for their stability and resistance to redox reactivity unless highly reducing electrical potentials are applied. Here we report that treatment of a low oxidation state {Mg₂ Na₂ } species with non-reducible organic bases induces the spontaneous and completely selective extrusion of sodium metal and oxidation of the Mg^I centers to the more conventional Mg^II state. Although these processes are also characterized by a structural reorganisation of the initially chelated diamide spectator ligand, computational quantum chemical studies indicate that intramolecular electron transfer is abetted by the frontier molecular orbitals (HOMO/LUMO) of the {Mg₂ Na₂ } ensemble, which arise

SUBMITTER: Liu HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10107709 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature