New platinum compounds containing the diphosphine ligand 2-(ferrocenylidene)-4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)-4-cyclopenten-1,3-dione (fbpcd): Synthesis, redox behavior, and X-ray diffraction structures of PtCl2(fbpcd) and Pt(mnt)(fbpcd)

Bhaskar Poola, Sean W. Hunt, Xiaoping Wang, Michael G. Richmond

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Abstract

The reaction of the redox-active diphosphine ligand 2-(ferrocenylidene)-4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)-4-cyclopenten-1,3-dione (fbpcd) with PtCl2(1,5-cod) furnishes the platinum(II) compound PtCl2(fbpcd) (2). Treatment of 2 with disodium maleonitriledithiolate (Na2mnt) yields the chelating thiolate compound Pt(mnt)(fbpcd) (3). Both 2 and 3 have been fully characterized in solution by IR, UV-Vis, and NMR spectroscopies, and their molecular structures established by X-ray crystallography. The redox properties of the fbpcd ligand and compounds 2 and 3 have been investigated by cyclic voltammetry, and the composition of the HOMO and LUMO levels in these systems have been determined by extended Hückel MO calculations, the results of which are discussed with respect to electrochemical data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3693-3699
Number of pages7
JournalPolyhedron
Volume27
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 12 2008
Externally publishedYes

Funding

Financial support from the Robert A. Welch Foundation (B-1093-MGR) is much appreciated, and Prof. Guido F. Verbeck and graduate student Ms. Nicole Ledbetter (UNT) and Prof. Andreas H. Franz (University of the Pacific) are thanked for recording the mass spectra of compounds 2 and 3 , respectively.

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Robert A. Welch Foundation

    Keywords

    • Diphosphine ligand
    • MO calculations
    • Platinum compounds
    • Redox chemistry

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