Abstract
The series of complexes trans-[MX2{[graphic omitted]H2)5}2](M = Pd; X = Cl, Br, or I; M = Pt; X = Cl) have been synthesised and, by accurate analysis of their variable-temperature 1H and 13C n.m.r. spectra using total band-shape fitting methods, energy barriers for ligand ring reversal and for sulphur inversion have been separated and calculated for the first time. The barriers to ring reversal in the complexes are similar to those already known for the unco-ordinated ligand, whereas those for sulphur inversion are also similar to values known for analogous non-cyclic ligand complexes. The power of 13C dynamic n.m.r. spectral analysis was demonstrated by the fact that no simplifications in the conformational analyses were needed in order to account for the 13C spectral line changes. This was in marked contrast to the 1H spectra, which, in order for their analyses to be possible, had to be attributed to the conformations of either six-membered heterocyclic ring rather than to total conformational structures of the complexes.

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