Kinetics and mechanism of metal ion substitution on a cobalt(III) complex containing a pendant phenanthroline

The kinetics for the substitution of the aqua ions of Fe(II), Co(II), and Ni(II) onto (phenanthroline-2-carboxamide)penta-amminecobalt(III) are reported in this study. For each metal studied, initial coordination occurs at one phenanthroline nitrogen and the adjacent carbonyl oxygen