Bioinorganic Coordination Chemistry

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Bioinorganic Coordination Chemistry

This experiment uses H2TTP made during the last lab and hydrated

copper (II) acetate to convert the H2TTP to Cu(TTP). The reaction

proceeds by being refluxed for 30 minutes. The final product is a

non-iridescent purple color, unlike the vivid, shimmering purple color

of the starting H2TTP.

Introduction

Thin layer chromatography, or TLC, is used as a prerequisite for

column chromatography. When performing types of chromatography, like

TLC, the polarity of solvents is extremely important. This lab uses

TLC plates, five solvents (hexane, toluene, ethyl acetate,

dichloromethane, and acetone), and small evaporating dishes to

determine which solvent would be best to use in column chromatography.

The least polar solvent is hexane, which has a polarity index of 0.1.

Toluene has a polarity index of 2.4, while ethyl acetate’s is almost

twice that at 4.4. By comparing the polarity indexes, you can tell

what solvent will separate your dots of product on your TLC plates the

best (Skoog 761).

Experimental Section

The equipment needed for this experiment is as following: 100 mL round

bottom flask, stir bar, water condenser, hot plate, UV light, Pasteur

pipet, ice bath, separatory funnel, rotary evaporator, evaporating

dish, cotton for filtering, and UV-vis spectrometer.

The chemicals required are: 0.1 g. of H2TTP made previously, 20 mL

N,N-dimethylformamide, 0.16 g. hydrated copper acetate, distilled

water, 75 mL dichloromethane, hexane, toluene, ethyl acetate,

dichloromethane, and acetone for TLC plates.

Procedure

1. Measure out 0.1 g. of the H2TTP made previously into a 100 mL

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...aporates off the gel leaving open sites

where polar molecules can bond. When you let silica gel out in the

open, it will collect water molecules on it. Compounds would elute

faster down a column that has been heated at 150 degrees for 8 hours

because the gel would be dry.

3. A mixture of cis and trans isomers of the neutral complex Cr(CO)4[P(C6H5]2

is loaded onto a silica gel and eluted with CHCl3. Which isomer would

elute first, and

why?

The trans isomer would elute first.

References

Skoog Douglas; Holler F. James; Nieman Timothy A., Principles of

Instrumental Analysis, fifth edition, Thompson Learning: 1998.

UV-Vis Absorption Spectroscopy-Theory.

http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/sci/chem/tutorials/molspec/uvvisab1.htm.

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