Acetylenediol

Acetylenediol
Other names

ethynediol, dihydroxyacetylene
Identifiers
PubChem 9942115
ChemSpider 8117727 Y
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Properties
Molecular formula C2H2O2
Molar mass 58,07 g/mol
Boiling point

dec.
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Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
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Acetylenediol, or ethynediol, is a chemical substance with formula HO-C≡C-OH. It is the diol of acetylene. Acetylenediol is unstable in the condensed phase, although its tautomer glyoxal H(C=O)2H is well known.

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Detection

Acetylenediol was first observed in 1986 by J. K. Terlouw and others in gas-phase by mass spectrometry.[1] In 1995, the compound was obtained by Günther Maier and Christine Rohr through photolysis of squaric acid in a solid argon matrix at 10 K (−263.2 °C).[2]

Derivatives

Alkoxide derivatives

Although the diol has only fleeting existence in concentrated form, salts of the acetylenediolate (ethynediolate) dianion (O-C≡C-O)2− are well known. These organometallic compounds (specifically, alkoxides) are formally derived from ethynediol by loss of two hydrogen ions, but they are not normally generated in that way.

The typical synthesis route for these salts is the reduction of carbon monoxide. Potassium acetylenediolate K2C2O2 was first obtained by Liebig in 1834, from the reaction of carbon monoxide with metallic potassium;[3] but for a long time the product was assumed to be "potassium carbonyl" KCO. Over the next 130 years were described the "carbonyls" of sodium (Johannis, 1893), barium (Gunz and Mentrel, 1903), strontium (Roederer, 1906), and lithium, rubidium, and caesium (Pearson, 1933).[4] The reaction was eventually shown to yield a mixture of the potassium acetylenediolate K2C2O2 and potassium benzenehexolate K6C6O6.[5]

The true structure of these salts was clarified only in 1963 by Werner Büchner and E. Weiss.[6][7]

Acetylenediolates can also be prepared by the rapid reaction of CO and a solution of the corresponding metal in liquid ammonia at low temperature.[4] Potassium acetylenediolate is a pale yellow solid that reacts explosively with air, halogens, halogenated hydrocarbons, alcohols, water, and any substance which possesses an acidic hydrogen.[8]

Coordination complexes

Acetylenediol can form coordination compounds, such as [TaH(HOC≡COH)(dmpe)2Cl]+Cl− where dmpe is bis(1,2-dimethylphosphino)ethane.[9]

Acetylenediolate and related anions such as deltate C3O2−
3 and squarate C4O2−
4 have been obtained from carbon monoxide under mild conditions by reductive coupling of CO ligands in organouranium complexes.[10]

Other derivatives

Although again not derived from acetylenediol, a variety of structurally related compounds are known. Examples include the diethers diisopropoxyethyne ((CH3)2CH)-O-C≡C-O-(CH(CH3)2) and di-tert-butoxyethyne ((CH3)3C)-O-C≡C-O-(C(CH3)3).[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Johan K. Terlouw, Peter C. Burgers, Ben L. M. van Baar, Thomas Weiske, and Helmut Schwarz (1986), The Formation in the Gas Phase of HO-CC-OH, H2N-CC-NH2, H2N-CC-OH and related Compounds by Selective Reduction of their Cations, Chimia, volume 40, page 357–359. Online version accessed on 2009-08-01.
  2. ^ Günther Maier, Christine Rohr (1995), Ethynediol: Photochemical generation and matrix-spectroscopic identification. Liebigs Annalen, Volume 1996 Issue 3, Pages 307–309. doi:10.1002/jlac.15719960304 Abstract
  3. ^ Justus Liebig (1834), Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, volume 11, p. 182. Cited by Raymond N. Vrtis et al (1988), JACS p. 7564.
  4. ^ a b T. G. Pearson (1933), Carbonyls of Lithium, Rubidium and Caesium. Nature, volume 131, pp. 166–167 (04 February 1933). doi:10.1038/131166b0
  5. ^ Werner Büchner, E. Weiss (1964) Zur Kenntnis der sogenannten «Alkalicarbonyle» IV[1] Über die Reaktion von geschmolzenem Kalium mit Kohlenmonoxid. Helvetica Chimica Acta, Volume 47 Issue 6, Pages 1415–1423.doi:10.1002/hlca.19640470604
  6. ^ Werner Büchner, E. Weiss (1963) Zur Kenntnis der sogenannten «Alkalicarbonyle» I Die Kristallstruktur des Kalium-acetylendiolats, KOC≡COK. Helvetica Chimica Acta, Volume 46 Issue 4, Pages 1121–1127. doi:10.1002/hlca.19630460404
  7. ^ E. Weiss, Werner Büchner (1963), Zur Kenntnis der sogenannten Alkalicarbonyle. II. Die Kristallstrukturen des Rubidium- und Caesium-acetylendiolats, RbOC≡CORb und CsOC≡COCs. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, Volume 330 Issue 5-6, Pages 251–258. doi:10.1002/zaac.19643300504
  8. ^ Charles Kenneth Taylor (1982), The Chemical Behavior of the Alkali Metal Acetylenediolates. Thesis, Pennsylvania State University; also Technical Memo A642321, Penn State University Park Applied Research Lab. 227 pages.
  9. ^ Raymond N. Vrtis, Ch. Pulla Rao, Simon G. Bott, and Stephen J. Lippard (1988), Synthesis and Stabilization of Tantalum-Coordinated Dihydroxyacetylene from Two Reductively Coupled Carbon Monoxide Ligands J. Am. Chem. Soc., volume 110 issue 22, pp 7564–7566. doi:10.1021/ja00230a062
  10. ^ Alistair S. Frey, F. Geoffrey N. Cloke, Peter B. Hitchcock (2008), Mechanistic Studies on the Reductive Cyclooligomerisation of CO by U(III) Mixed Sandwich Complexes; the Molecular Structure of [(U(η-C8H6{Si'Pr3-1,4}2)(η-Cp*)]2(μ-η1:η1-C2O2) Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 130, issue 42, pages 13816–13817. doi:10.1021/ja8059792
  11. ^ Anna Bou, Miquel A. Pericàs and Félix Serratosa (1981), Diisopropoxy- and di-tert-butoxyethyne : Stable acetylene diethers. Tetrahedron, Volume 37, Issue 7, Pages 1441-1449. doi:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)92464-0