Unprecedented C–H bond oxidative addition of the imidazolium cation to Pt0: a combined density functional analysis and experimental study
- 7 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 4,p. 355-356
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b009674l
Abstract
Density functional studies predict that oxidative addition of an imidazolium salt to a Pt0 complex is an exothermic process, and consistent with this proposal, the reaction of the 1,3-dimethylimidazolium cation with Pt(PPh3)4 yields a hydrido–PtII carbene complex.Keywords
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