Studies on the interaction of selenite and selenium with sulphur donors. Part 5. Thiocyanate

Abstract

The oxidation of thiocyanic acid by selenous acid has been shown to take place in an analogous way to that found for selenous acid oxidation of most thiols and thiolates to give the corresponding selenotrisulfide and disulfide products[Formula: see text]The products of this reaction have been studied by IR, Raman, and Se-77, C-13, and N-15 NMR spectroscopy. The vibrational spectra of the solid Se(SCN)2 have been assigned based on S-bonded thiocyanate ligands and, through NMR and vibrational spectroscopy, both this linkage isomer and the isomer with N- and S-bonded thiocyanate have been identified and characterized in solutions of Se(SCN)2. A complex combination of scalar relaxation processes, involving chemical exchange and quadrupolar effects, accounts for the line broadening observed in the carbon-13 NMR spectra. Key words: selenite, thiocyanate, selenium dithiocyanate, Se-77, N-15, and C-13 NMR; Raman spectroscopy; linkage isomerism