Croconic acid

Croconic acid
Other names 4,5-dihydroxycyclopent-4-ene-1,2,3-trione Crocic acid
Identifiers
CAS number	488-86-8
Jmol-3D images	Image 1
SMILES c1(c(c(=O)c(=O)c1=O)O)O
Properties
Molecular formula	C5H2O5
Molar mass	142.07
Melting point	> 300°C (dec.)
Acidity (pKa)	0.80, 2.24
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Infobox references

Croconic acid or 4,5-dihydroxycyclopentenetrione is a chemical compound with formula C₅H₂O₅ or (C=O)₃(COH)₂. It has a cyclopentene backbone with two hydroxyl groups adjacent to the double bond and three ketone groups on the remaining carbon atoms. It is sensitive to light,^[1] soluble in water and ethanol^[2] and forms yellow crystals that decompose at 212°C.^[3]

The compound is acidic and loses the hydrogen cations H⁺ from the hydroxyls (pK1 = 0.80 ± 0.08 and pK2 = 2.24 ± 0.01 at 25°C).^[4][5] The resulting anions, hydrogencroconate C₅HO₅^{− [1]} and croconate C₅O₅²⁻ are also quite stable. The croconate ion, in particular, is aromatic and symmetric, as the double bond and the negative charges become delocalized over the five CO units. The lithium, sodium and potassium croconates crystallize from water as dihydrates^[6] but the orange potassium salt can be dehydrated to form a monohydrate. ^[1][4] The croconates of ammonium, rubidium and caesium crystallize in the anhydrous form.^[6] Salts of barium, lead, silver, etc. are also known.^[1]

Croconic acid also forms esters such as dimethyl croconate.

History

Croconic acid and potassium croconate dihydrate were discovered by Leopold Gmelin in 1825, who named the compounds from Greek κρόκος meaning "saffron" or "egg yolk".^[6] The structure of ammonium croconate was determined by Baenziger et al. in 1964. The structure of K₂C₅O₅ . 2H₂O was determined by J. D. Dunitz in 2001 ^[7]

Structure

In the solid-state, croconic acid has a peculiar structure consisting of pleated strips, each "page" of the strip being a planar ring of 4 molecules of C₅O₅H₂ held together by hydrogen bonds.^[6] In dioxane it has a large dipole moment of 9 to 10 D, while the free molecule is estimated to have a dipole of 7 to 7.5 D.^[8] The solid is ferroelectric with a Curie point above 400 K, indeed the organic crystal with the highest spontaneous polarization (about 20 μC cm⁻²). This is due to proton transfer between adjacent molecules in each pleated sheet, rather than molecular rotation.^[8]

In the solid alkali metal salts, the croconate anions and the alkali cations form parallel columns.^[6] In the mixed salt K₃(HC₅O₅)(C₅O₅)·2H₂O, which formally contains both the croconate dianion C₅O2−
5 and the hydrogencroconate monoanion (HC₅O−
5), the hydrogen is shared equally by two adjacent croconate units.^[6]

Salts of the croconate anion and its derivatives are of interest in supramolecular chemistry research because of their potential for π-stacking effects, where the delocalized electrons of two stacked croconate anions interact.^[9]

The croconate anion forms hydrated crystalline coordination compounds with divalent cations of transition metals, with general formula M(C₅O₅)·3H₂O; where M stands for copper (yielding a brown solid), iron (dark purple), zinc (yellow), nickel (green), manganese (dark green), or cobalt (purple). These complexes all have the same orthorombic crystal structure, consisting of chains of alternating croconate and metal ions. Each croconate is bound to the preceding metal by one oxygen atom, and to the next metal through its two opposite oxygens, leaving two oxygens unbound. Each metal is bound to three croconate oxygens and to one water molecule.^[10] Calcium also forms a compound with the same formula (yellow) but the structure appears to be different.^[10]

The croconate anion also forms compounds with trivalent cations such as aluminum (yellow), chromium (brown), and iron (purple). These compounds also include hydroxyl groups as well as hydration water and have a more complicated crystal strcuture.^[10] No indication was found of sandwich-type bonds between the delocalized electrons and the metal (as are seen in ferrocene, for example),^[10] but the anion can form metal complexes with a large variety of bonding patterns, involving from only one to all five of its oxygen atoms.^[11][12][13]

See also

• Croconate violet
• Croconate blue
• Rhodizonic acid
• Squaric acid
• Deltic acid
• Cyclopentanepentone (leuconic acid)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Kiyoyuki Yamada, Nobuhisa Mizuno and Yoshimasa Hirata (1958), Structure of Croconic Acid. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan volume 31, issue 5, pp. 543-549 doi:10.1246/bcsj.31.543.
2. ^ William Allen Miller (1868), Elements of chemistry: theoretical and practical, 4th edition. 884 pages. Longmans
3. ^ Edward Turner, Elements of chemistry
4. ^ ^{a b} Lowell M. Schwmtr Robert I. Gelb, and Janet 0. Yardley (1975), Aqueous Dissociation of Croconic Acid. J. Phys. Chem., volume 79 issue 21, pp 2246–2251. doi:10.1021/j100588a009
5. ^ Robert I. Gelb, Lowell M. Schwartz, Daniel A. Laufer, Janet O. Yardley (1977), The structure of aqueous croconic acid. J. Phys. Chem., volume 81 issue 13, pp 1268–1274. doi:10.1021/j100528a010
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Dario Braga, Lucia Maini, Fabrizia Grepioni (2002), Croconic Acid and Alkali Metal Croconate Salts: Some New Insights into an Old Story. Chemistry - A European Journal, Volume 8 Issue 8, Pages 1804–1812 doi:10.1002/1521-3765(20020415)8:8<1804::AID-CHEM1804>3.0.CO;2-C
7. ^ J. D. Dunitz, P. Seiler, W. Czchtizky (2001), Angew. Chem. vol. 113, p. 1829; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. vol 40, p. 1779
8. ^ ^{a b} Sachio Horiuchi, Yusuke Tokunaga, Gianluca Giovannetti, Silvia Picozzi, Hirotake Itoh, Ryo Shimano, Reiji Kumai and Yoshinori Tokura (2010), Above-room-temperature ferroelectricity in a single-component molecular crystal. Nature, Vol 463, pages 789–793 doi:10.1038/nature08731
9. ^ Luiz Felipe O. Faria, Antônio L. Soares Jr., Renata Diniz, Maria I. Yoshida, Howell G.M. Edwards and Luiz Fernando C. de Oliveira (2010), Mixed salts containing croconate violet, lanthanide and potassium ions: Crystal structures and spectroscopic characterization of supramolecular compounds. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Volume 363, Issue 1, Pages 49-56 doi:10.1016/j.ica.2009.09.050
10. ^ ^{a b c d} R. West, H.Y. Niu (1963), New aromatic anions. vi - complexes of croconate ion with some divalent and trivalent metals (Complexes of divalent transition metal croconates and trivalent metal croconates). Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 85, page 2586. doi:10.1021/ja00900a013
11. ^ José Carranza, Jorunn Sletten, Francesc Lloret, Miguel Julve (2009) Manganese(II) complexes with croconate and 2-(2-pyridyl)imidazole ligands: Syntheses, X-ray structures and magnetic properties. Inorganica Chimica Acta 362 2636–2642 doi:10.1016/j.ica.2008.12.002
12. ^ Chih-Chieh Wang, Meu-Ju Ke, Cheng-Hsiao Tsai, I-Hsuan Chen, Shin-I Lin, Tzuen-Yeuan Lin, Li-Mei Wu, Gene-Hsiang Lee, Hwo-Shuenn Sheu and Vladimir E. Fedorov (2009), [M(C5O5)2(H2O)n]2− as a Building Block for Hetero- and Homo-bimetallic Coordination Polymers: From 1D Chains to 3D Supramolecular Architectures. Crystal Growth & Design, 9 (2), pp 1013–1019 doi:10.1021/cg800827a
13. ^ Subal Chandra Manna, Ananta Kumar Ghosh, Ennio Zangrando, and Nirmalendu Ray Chaudhuri (2007), 3D supramolecular networks of Co(II)/Fe(II) using the croconate dianion and a bipyridyl spacer: Synthesis, crystal structure and thermal study. Polyhedron, Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 1105-1112. doi:10.1016/j.poly.2006.09.100