Nuclear magnetic resonance investigations of configurational non-rigidity in dinuclear platinum(IV) complexes. Part 6. Synchronous pyramidal inversion of chalcogen atoms in [(PtXMe3)2(ECH2CME2CH2E)] complexes (E = S or Se; X = Cl, Br, or I)

Abstract
Platinum(IV) complexes of the type [(PtXMe3)2([graphic omitted])](E = S or Se; X = Cl, Br, or I) have been synthesised and shown to possess dinuclear structures with highly strained Pt2X2 moieties. Variable-temperature 1H n.m.r. studies have clearly identified pyramidal inversions of the E atom pairs and scrambling of the Pt-methyl groups. Although chalcogen atom switching between the Pt atom pairs has not been unambiguously detected, this process constitutes the probable link between the other two fluxional processes. The ΔG data for the pyramidal inversions are in the range 66–75 kJ mol–1. Such values, being in most cases ca. 20 kJ mol–1 higher than the usual single-site inversions, are clearly associated with appreciably slower, synchronous inversions of the chalcogen atom pairs.

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