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Title: Structural features of several heteroborane complexes of divalent platinum. Crystal structure of the product of the thermal treatment of 9-bis(triphenylphosphine) platina-6-carbodecaborane (in Russian)

Journal Article · · Sov. J. Coordinat. Chem.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6357021

An x-ray diffaction investigation of the product (I) of the thermal treatment of the complex 9-(PPh/sub 3/)/sub 2/Pt-6-CB/sub 8/H/sub 12/ (II) at 253/sup 0/C has been carried out (lambda Mo, least-squares method in the anisotropic (Pt, P)-isotropic approximation to R = 0.082, according to 3859 reflections). The crystals of complex I are triclinic: a = 10.466, b = 13.747, c = 15.096 A, ..cap alpha.. = 71.73, ..beta.. = 87.73, ..gamma.. = 79.77/sup 0/, Z = 2, space group P1. The structural change upon the transition from complex II to I involves the attachment of the carborane ligand to two phenyl groups (one in each of the phosphine ligands), i.e., the formation of the condensed ligand CB/sub 8/H/sub 10/(C/sub 6/H/sub 4/PPh/sub 2/)/sub 2/ (L), which forms two Pt-P sigma bonds (their mean length is 2.297 A, and the PPtP angle is 109.5/sup 0/) and a four-center Pt-3B bond of the ..pi..-allyl type (Pt-B = 2.08, 2.23, and 2.17 A). Crystals of complex I have been isolated in the form of the solvate PtL 0.5CHCl/sub 3/. A comparison of the lengths of the analogous B-B bonds in complexes I and II provides evidence that two terminal H atoms, rather than bridging atoms, are removed during the structural transition from II to I and that the five-membered PtBCCP chelate rings have folds along the B...P lines (the folding angles are 21 and 23/sup 0/).

OSTI ID:
6357021
Journal Information:
Sov. J. Coordinat. Chem.; (United States), Vol. 11:3; Other Information: Translated from Koordinatsionnaya Khimiya; 11: No. 3, 400-410(Mar 1985)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
Russian