Kinetics of Exchange of Dimethylsulfoxide between Hexakis(dimethylsulfoxide)chromium(III) and Solvent: Pressure Effect and Mechanism

Abstract

For the exchange of all six dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) ligands in Cr(DMSO)63+ with perdeuterated DMSO solvent, the first-order rate constant (75°) = 5.5 × 10−5 s−1, while ΔH* = 23.1 kcal mol−1, ΔS* = − 11.8 cal deg−1 mol−1, and ΔV* = − 11.3 cm3 mol−1. These and other data are indicative of an associative interchange mechanism for substitution in Cr(III) DMSO complexes in DMSO.