Research Article

Synthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of Some New Molybdenum, Tungsten, and Ruthenium Carbonyl Derivatives of 2-Hydroxymethylpyridine

Table 4

Thermal analysis data for HMP and its molybdenum, tungsten, and ruthenium complexes.

ComplexDecomposition step, K% Weight lossMol. wt.Species eliminated% Solid residue

490–62021.76110.14C6H6 + O22MoO
44.26%
620–76022.15112.11C6H8 + O2
760–90011.8660.032NO

480–65012.4885.11C4H5 + O22WO
58.61%
650–80012.6286.06C4H6 + O2
800–100016.29111.09 C4H3 +2NO

341–50019.0456.022CORuO
39.76%
500–73441.20121.22C7H7 +NO

341–46710.6056.022CORuO
22.14%
467–73027.67146.23C11H14
730–120039.58209.17C13H8NP